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Before Gov. Moore vetoed a reparations study, he drafted his own plan
Before Maryland Gov. Wes Moore was opposed to creating a commission to study reparations β€” saying it would slow down action β€” he had drafted his own executive order creating a similar commission.
Gov. Wes Moore takes questions from reporters on Maryland’s sweeping audit of police-custody deaths during a news conference at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md. on Thursday, May 15, 2025.
Hegseth removed the Naval Academy’s first female leader. How did she last this long?
Vice Adm. Yvette Davids is out as superintendent of the Naval Academy. The surprise isn't that she's leaving but that an administration invested in ideological purity didn't get her before now.
Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, crosses the field at halftime Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, during the 2024 Army-Navy Game at Northwest Stadium in Landover, MD, December 14, 2024.
State police investigate inmate’s death at Western Maryland prison
Maryland State Police launched an investigation into the death of a 30-year-old man incarcerated at North Branch Correctional Institution in Allegany County.
North Branch Correctional Institution, Cumberland, Maryland, on May 11, 2025.
Tech company CEO resigns after controversy over video captured at Coldplay concert
Andy Byron resigned from his job as CEO of Astronomer Inc., according to aΒ statement posted on LinkedInΒ by the company Saturday.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JUNE 06: (L-R) Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin and Guy Berryman of Coldplay perform on a stop of the band's Music of the Spheres world tour at Allegiant Stadium on June 06, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
A rocky start and disappointing end for the Naval Academy’s first female leader
Some Naval Academy alumnae are dismayed by the Pentagon’s decision to remove Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, the first female superintendent of the Naval Academy
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Jan. 11, 2024) The U.S. Naval Academy holds the change of command ceremony in Bancroft Hall where the 64th Naval Academy Superintendent Rear Adm. Fred Kacher was properly relieved by Vice Adm. Yvette Davids. A decorated naval officer, class of 1990, who will head to Yokosuka, Japan to take the reins as commander of the United States Seventh Fleet. As the undergraduate college of our countryΒ’s naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
Free for 15 years, Tyrone Jones finally compensated for wrongful conviction in Baltimore
Tyrone Jones was initially denied compensation under the Walter Lomax Act because at the time in Maryland, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder had been considered a misdemeanor instead of a felony.
Tyrone Jones is photographed after dropping off his son at a therapy session in Parkville, Md. on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
NBA rookie, Baltimore native Derik Queen out at least 3 months after surgery for torn wrist ligament
Derik Queen was hurt Tuesday while playing in an NBA Summer League game.
The 6-foot-9 Derik Queen was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year after averaging 16.5 points for Maryland.
Pentagon confirms Naval Academy’s first female leader is being reassigned after 18 months
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed news reports that the first female superintendent of the Naval Academy, Yvette Davids, has been reassigned.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Aug. 15, 2024) U.S. Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Yvette Davids addresses the Naval Academy Brigade of Midshipmen for the start of the new school year in Alumni Hall. As the undergraduate college of our country’s naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
Education Department will release some frozen grants supporting after-school and summer programs
In a letter sent Wednesday, Republican senators said the withheld money supported programs that had longstanding bipartisan support and were critical to local communities.
Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education, attends a hearing of the Health, Education, and Labor Committee on her nomination.
Maryland Medicaid programs could lose $2.7 billion under new federal law
A new analysis by Maryland health officials finds a potential loss of $2.7 billion over time from the new law passed by Congress.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, shakes hands with Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., as he celebrates with fellow Republicans after final passage of President Donald Trump's signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 3, 2025.
Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke to hold Baltimore town hall
O’Rourke is holding events in Philadelphia and Richmond before his Baltimore visit and then heading to Austin and Milwaukee.
Beto O’Rourke on the campaign trail in 2022. O’Rourke is hosting a town hall in Baltimore Sunday, part of a wave of resistance-themed roadshows.
Jordan McNair’s dad urges Congress to pass athlete safety law after son’s heatstroke death
The Jordan McNair Student Athlete Heat Fatality Prevention Act requires colleges and high schools to adopt emergency heat illness protocols.
Jordan McNair was a freshman offensive lineman for the University of Maryland.
Baltimore’s 19th-century underground pipes are literally bursting into flames
The 19th-century pipes underground in Baltimore City are bursting into flames, and the city and BGE are pointing fingers instead of finding a solution.
The site of the an underground fire on the morning of July 2, 2025. At this point, South Street was still closed and Baltimore Street was restricted to one lane.
One year later, residents still oppose β€˜70-mile extension cord.’ Some things to know.
Del. Nino Mangione this week hosted his third town hall on a proposed 70-mile power line project. One year after residents started to learn about the plan, many remain vehemently opposed to the project that would cut through rural Maryland.
An existing set of transmission lines crosses over Old York Road near the start of the proposed route of the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP) in northern Baltimore County.
GOP senators tank Van Hollen’s attempt to preserve FBI HQ funds for Greenbelt
Van Hollen said he’d hoped his colleagues would have rejected the administration’s attempt to undo years of work by members of both parties.
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 8: The J. Edgar Hoover building, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters, is photographed on October 8, 2024 in Washington, DC.
Ex-Anne Arundel reserve officer charged with threatening Marjorie Taylor Greene and family
Seth Jason, 64, repeatedly threatened to assault and kill Greene and her family during several calls to her district offices in between October 2023 and January 2025, according to his four-countΒ indictment.
FILE - Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., presides over a House Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Feb. 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)
Ex-Orioles minor leaguer dies rescuing swimmers
Chase Childers, a former minor league baseball player and ex-police officer, has died after rushing into the ocean to save swimmers in a rip current, according to police in South Carolina and a GoFundMe page for his family.
Pawleys Island in 2022. The police department for Pawleys Island, S.C., said Chase Childers died Sunday, July 13, 2025, after rushing to save swimmers in a rip current.
The House is poised to OK Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid
The House of Representatives is expected to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
The package cancels about $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes more than two-thirds of the money to more than 1,500 locally operated public television and radio stations, with much of the remainder assigned to National Public Radio, seen here, and the Public Broadcasting Service.
Marylanders to join nationwide β€˜Good Trouble’ protests against Trump’s policies
Protests and events against President Donald Trump’s controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to Medicaid are planned ThursdayΒ at more than a dozen locations around Maryland.
Thousands of people participated in β€œNo Kings” demonstrations across Maryland in June.
An entrepreneur had big plans for a West Baltimore grocery store. Then rent came due.
Mario Minor, a former concert promoter with no experience opening a grocery store, sold Poppleton residents in Baltimore City a dream.
An unopened grocery store in the La Cite development in the Poppleton neighborhood of Baltimore on February 26, 2025.
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