Politics

A leading candidate in the Democratic primary for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District released an ad this week negatively targeting his top opponent.

The move could dramatically reshape the May 14 Democratic primary.

In 2015, Vignarajah wanted then-mayoral candidate Elizabeth Embry to make him police commissioner if she won election. When a colleague objected, Vignarajah grew extremely annoyed.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman on Wednesday proposed a $2.31 billion budget for fiscal year 2025 that increases spending, boosts the starting pay of police officers and provides funds to staff three new schools.

Maryland is the third state to eliminate the practice as the question of fairness in admissions undergoes increased scrutiny across the country. Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, College Park had already eliminated legacy admissions.

Gary Washington, now 63, of Baltimore, spent more than 31 years incarcerated on charges of first-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence in the deadly shooting of Faheem “Bobo” Ali, which happened on Barclay Street between East 23rd and East 24th streets in Barclay, on Dec. 27, 1986.

The outgoing councilman has endorsed a successor, but two others say they have what it takes to represent Southeast Baltimore.

Jacob Leffler, the vice president of the Maryland Association of the Deaf, said the bill makes movie theaters more accessible for all people — including moviegoers who are learning the language spoken in a movie or people who want or need enhanced visual support for comprehension

A Democrat in her second term leading Maryland’s second-largest county, Alsobrooks — the first woman and Black woman elected to the position — said her life’s work has culminated in this: a bid for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat.

In the contested Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, candidate Angela Alsobrooks picked up support from the only other woman who has held the job in Maryland: Barbara A. Mikulski.

This could be the last televised debate before early primary voting begins on May 2.

Scott’s challengers sought to drown out his optimistic message and lambasted his record, casting him as an ineffective leader whose portrait of improvement masks a more complicated and stagnant on-the-ground reality.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.

A plan discussed by Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates to prosecute parents whose children are arrested would only make matters worse for marginalized families in the city, a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health says.

Cogen’s endorsement means the city’s two elected law enforcement officials are backing Dixon, following Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates’ endorsement earlier this month.

To win over voters, Trone combines restless energy with the feel-your-pain approach of former President Bill Clinton.

Businesses and government can help protect the economy and jobs by working to limit supply chain disruptions stemming from the loss of the Key Bridge, the president and chief executive officer of the Maryland Public Policy Institute says.

Maryland is tackling a stubborn problem of processing applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and last month the state said it got close to federal compliance for the first time in almost a decade.

Howard County’s school board has historically resisted campaigns to get certain books off the shelves. Could this election flip the script?

Closings of Maryland craft breweries reflect how the industry has been subjected to an unfriendly business and political climate, says a former regulator of Maryland’s alcohol industry.