Western Maryland

Two Democratic congressmen from Maryland joined the growing call for the Department of Justice to release files related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.

Previously, detaining a Maryland child already on ankle monitoring was optional, even if police requested they be detained.

The decision could be reversed before the Senate wraps up work on the spending plan.

Andy Harris, Maryland’s lone GOP member in Comgress, changes tack to back President Donald Trump's bill in close House vote to ensure passage.

The Lodge, a longstanding Boonsboro watering hole that resembles a log cabin, is Maryland’s oldest rural gay bar.

Maryland lawmakers’ responses to President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iranian nuclear sites fell along party lines.

Thursday’s announcement comes weeks after Moore vetoed a bill that would have set up a commission to study reparations, angering allies in the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland.

A 43-year-old is fighting deportation to Vietnam, a place she last lived when she was 10.

Some of the children are frightened by rain now. Westernport counselor Tessa Fitzgerald invites them to talk about their fears.

About half of the staff at Green Ridge Youth Center is on leave injured, union reps said, and morale has plummeted

Flooding devastated Western Maryland last week, and now the Maryland Insurance Administration is invoking emergency powers to help those affected get access to drugs and medical equipment.

Children left schools in boats as 5 inches of rain deluged parts of Allegany and Garrett counties last week.

Heavy rains this week led to the worst flooding parts of Allegany County has seen in nearly 30 years. Gov. Wes Moore declared a state of emergency.

Allegany County spokesperson Kati Kenney said responders used rescue boats to safely evacuate a school. About 150 students and 50 adults were evacuated during 15 boat trips.

Firefighters, a widely-respected constituency that Trump has courted, say they are having a tough time lobbying against the administration’s cuts — or even getting administration officials to respond to them.

Michael Martirano left the Howard County Public School System abruptly last year.

The Trump administration has so far denied a unanimous U.S Supreme Court order to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return, and the president has called Chris Van Hollen a “fake” and a “grandstander” for confronting his administration’s sweeping deportation efforts with a congressional fact-finding mission.

More than 200,000 people have a Maryland permit to carry a handgun — a jump from fewer than 50,000 in 2020.

As an elected Republican in a rapidly changing place that gets more liberal with each election, Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins is something of an endangered species.

Emmitsburg, Maryland fears the Trump administration’s suspension of the National Fire Academy classes will harm the economy. And emergency workers say the public will be less safe without this training resource.