Politics

When the Kansas City Chiefs were in Baltimore for a game decades ago, Hall of Famer Willie Lanier, who played his college football at Morgan State, enjoyed some time with Chiefs teammates at the Baltimore City Fair.

A seasonal police officer and lifeguard in Ocean City, Ruppersberger continued into the courtroom as a prosecutor. Later he entered politics as a Baltimore County council member and county executive before moving to Congress.

The Maryland state prosecutor, Charlton T. Howard III, alleges that Anne Arundel County Register of Wills Erica Griswold cashed a $6,645 check intended for her office and hasn't repaid the state. She could not be reached for comment.

The comments come in the wake of Maryland State Board of Elections member Carlos Ayala being charged in federal court in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

State troopers spent about one minute telling a few dozen people in the balcony to leave as the House plowed ahead with its agenda of routine items.

Since the start of the pandemic, Baltimore has quietly made headway towards closing its digital divide. But without action from Congress soon, nearly 80,000 households risk losing low-cost internet connections.

Now that a plan for a new sculpture has been dumped, what should go in Westgate Circle — a boundary point between downtown Annapolis and parts of the city unofficially known as the rest of Annapolis? Here, then, are five ideas, all on the theme of Unity.

Fox45 says reporters didn’t know their station’s owner is financing high-profile suit and station will add disclosure to stories.

Brian Delen is accused of shooting Meghan Lewis in December.

Family members of Theodore McKeldin, remembered as the “father of the Inner Harbor,” want to preserve his waterfront memorial amid Baltimore-based MCB Real Estate's plans to overhaul Harborplace.

The priorities outlined by Dixon don’t differ widely from those of Scott, whom she hopes to unseat in the Democratic primary this May, and one leading expert on Baltimore crime questioned whether the former mayor’s strategy brings anything “truly new” to the table.

The documents show how Mayor Brandon Scott came to support Baltimore’s sweeping new inclusionary housing law despite 11th-hour changes and warnings from his agencies about the financial consequences.

Thiru Vignarajah is entering the Democratic primary for mayor, joining Mayor Brandon Scott, Sheila Dixon, Bob Wallace and others.

The Orioles issued a statement noting that they will also ban the use of tobacco products at both of their Florida training complexes: Ed Smith Stadium Complex, which hosts spring training, and the Buck O’Neil Complex at Twin Lakes Park.

A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals found Anne Arundel County could require gun dealers to distribute suicide prevention and conflict resolution literature. A gun rights group intends to appeal.

Republicans are pushing to repeal a controversial Maryland law that prohibits police from pulling over and searching drivers simply because they smell marijuana, but Democratic leaders say they aren’t interested in dramatic changes to the state’s cannabis legislation this year.

Supervisors at all levels failed to enforce overtime policies, according to a state audit.

Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress, must have hoped no one would fact check his Ocean City disinformation event about wind turbines.

Requiring just cause for residential evictions would protect Maryland renters and help ensure fair practices in the rental market, Del. Jheanelle Wilkins says in calling for approval of just cause eviction legislation.

The language that would be added to the state constitution would declare that “every person ... has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom.” And that freedom includes, but is not limited to, “the ability to make and effectuate decisions to prevent, continue, or end one’s own pregnancy.”