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Molly Power, 26, holding protest signs, waits with family at Penn Station before hopping on the MARC train to attend the People's March in Washington, D.C., on January 18, 2025.
Marylanders vigorously protested Trump’s first inauguration. This time, quiet.
Demonstrations after Donald Trump’s first inauguration were the largest in U.S. history. This time, the resistance has been subdued.
U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin expresses his support for U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks during her Election Day-eve rally in Riverdale Park, Md. on Monday, November 4, 2024.
Democrats think Maryland’s Jamie Raskin is a leader for Trump-era politics
Many colleagues view Raskin, a 62-year-old constitutional law scholar with a broad national following, as an intellectual, aggressive and articulate leader.
Sherry Price and her son David in their living room in Glen Burnie, MD, on Dec. 13, 2024.
Meet the only Ravens fan who trades emails with John Harbaugh
The Baltimore Ravens’ longtime coach receives an email after nearly every game from David Price, a diehard fan from Glen Burnie.
Large crowds gather in Princess Anne to see the city’s annual New Year’s Eve muskrat dive.
Muskrats, ducks and doughnuts: Inside Maryland’s zaniest New Year’s ‘drops’
Hagerstown, Princess Anne and Havre de Grace have embraced their own wonderfully wacky twists on New York City’s ball drop.
HOUSTON, TEXAS - APRIL 01: Sportscaster Greg Gumbel is interviewed prior to the 2016 NCAA Men's Final Four at NRG Stadium on April 1, 2016 in Houston, Texas.  (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
Greg Gumbel was the trailblazing voice of the Ravens’ first Super Bowl
The veteran CBS sportscaster made history as the first Black play-by-play announcer to call a Super Bowl during the Baltimore Ravens’ 2001 victory over the New York Giants.
Hagerstown Mayor Tekesha Martinez poses for a portrait inside of City Hall, in Hagerstown, November 19, 2024.
Becoming Hagerstown’s first Black mayor made her a role model — and a target
Hagerstown had never seen a mayor like Tekesha Martinez: a Black woman and poet who grew up in foster care. Ahead of the 2024 election, national politics seeped into her city.
A sign reading "Deny, Defend, Depose, Health Care 4 All" hangs on an overpass on I-83 on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024.
Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO unites people ... against insurance companies
The fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has focused attention on the anger and frustrations of people around the country and in Maryland.
A federal judge upheld the Naval Academy’s consideration of race in admissions, which he said is “narrowly tailored” to meet its national security interests.
U.S. Naval Academy prevails in race-conscious admissions case
A federal judge upheld the Naval Academy’s consideration of race in admissions, which he said is “narrowly tailored” to meet its national security interests.
Democrat April McClain Delaney declared victory Friday over Republican Neil Parrott in Maryland's 6th congressional district.
McClain Delaney declares victory in race for Western Maryland House seat
In Maryland's 6th District congressional race, Democrat April McClain Delaney's lead over Republican Neil Parrott grew after mail-in votes were counted.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, earlier this month.
Trump gained ground in almost every county of reliably blue Maryland
President-elect Donald Trump came nowhere close to winning reliably blue Maryland’s 10 electoral votes Tuesday, but he performed better in every one of its 23 counties and Baltimore City.
Newly-elected U.S. Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth delivers a victory speech at her election night party in Annapolis, Md.
Congressional races: Elfreth wins open seat, incumbents reelected
Democrat Sarah Elfreth won the race for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District, a heavily Democratic area that includes swaths of Howard and Anne Arundel counties.
A former Easton Police officer was sentenced Friday for making sexual contact with two teenage girls while on duty, conduct that the judge called “well beyond an embarrassment.”
Easton cop sentenced for committing sex acts with teens in patrol car
A former Easton Police officer was sentenced Friday for making sexual contact with two teenage girls while on duty, conduct that the judge called “well beyond an embarrassment.”
More than 250,000 tires were left abandoned at an industrial site in Allegany County, Maryland.
Anne Arundel man pleads guilty to dumping over 250,000 scrap tires at Western Maryland site
A 48-year-old from Anne Arundel County left scrap tires strewn across an industrial property in Western Maryland. He has pleaded guilty to 17 environmental crimes, authorities say.
Maryland already has some of the strongest abortion protections in the county. Question 1 would enshrine reproductive freedom in the state constitution.
Abortion is legal in Maryland. So why is there a ballot question about it?
Maryland has some of the strongest abortion protections in the country. Now, voters will decide whether the state constitution should include a right to reproductive freedom.
Flooding from Hurricane Helene damaged a plant in Marion, N.C., that was the nation's leading manufacturer of IV fluids.
Maryland hospitals face IV shortage as hurricanes hit suppliers
Flooding from Hurricane Helene halted production at the country’s leading manufacturer and triggered a national shortage.
Democrat April McClain Delaney, left, and Republican Neil Parrott.
In one Maryland House race, a raging debate over what it means to be local
The candidates are vying to succeed Rep. David Trone in a district where Democrats narrowly outnumber Republicans.
The U.S. Naval Academy defended its consideration of race in admissions in a nearly two-week-long trial that concluded Thursday.
The Naval Academy’s affirmative action trial is over. What’s next?
The future of the U.S. Naval Academy’s admissions process is now in the hands of a federal judge.
The Naval Academy is defending its affirmative action policies in federal court this week.
Naval Academy argues national security depends on race-conscious admissions
Students for Fair Admissions, which won a landmark Supreme Court case last year, alleges the Naval Academy discriminates against white applicants.
An anti-affirmative action group that won a landmark 2023 Supreme Court decision sued the Naval Academy for considering race in its admissions.
Naval Academy on trial over race in admissions: What you should know
The case marks latest effort by Students for Fair Admissions to eliminate race-conscious policies in higher education.
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