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    RFK Stadium in 1992.
    Commanders, District agree to a deal to build at RFK Stadium site
    D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the District and the Commanders reached an agreement to construct a new home for the football team in the city.
    Maryland lawmakers passed a bill that makes several changes to medical and geriatric parole.
    Maryland overhauls process for releasing aging and sick prisoners: ‘It’s about mercy’
    Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, this week signed a bill that make changes to medical and geriatric parole.
    Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown joined 18 other states challenging the U.S. education department’s threats to withhold school funding.
    Maryland lawsuit challenges federal threats to withhold education funding
    Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown joined attorneys general from 18 other states to sue the Trump administration.
    Gov. Wes Moore, right, during the first day of Maryland’s legislative session in January.
    How a Maryland voter priority was left behind in a busy legislative session
    The Wes Moore administration struggled to repeat its success with housing policy in 2025.
    Photo collage shows close up of woman’s face in profile, her eyes look right. On right side of collage are a breast pump and baby bottle with a jury box seats in the background.
    Parents of young children will be able to defer jury duty under new state law
    Maryland's governor has signed a law allowing new mothers to be excused from jury duty for up to three years, making the policy uniform across the state.
    Anne Arundel County alcohol sales are regulated by the Board of License Commissioners, a three body panel now being changed after complaints.
    After toxic cocktail of complaints, changes are coming to Anne Arundel’s liquor board
    A state senator says he has been "flooded" with complaints about Anne Arundel's Board of License Commissioners. It prompted him to push for changes, including expanding the board's size.
    Maryland is seeking bids to construct a towering five-story, approximately $200 million building in Annapolis to relocate the state’s two appeals courts.
    Maryland seeking bids for ‘world-class’ appeals court building in Annapolis
    Maryland is seeking bids to construct a towering five-story, approximately $200 million building in Annapolis to relocate the state’s two appeals courts.
    Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, on Tuesday is set to sign a bill that his administration put forward called the Expungement Reform Act of 2025.
    Moore set to expand ways for ex-offenders to clear their criminal records
    In 2022, the Appellate Court of Maryland, the state’s mid-level level appeals court, ruled that people whose probation is unsatisfactorily closed after a violation cannot receive an expungement.
    Susan McCutchen of Bladensburg, who has been fighting maglev for eight years, speaks at a community meeting at the Greenbelt library on Saturday, April 19, 2025. Next to her, from left, are Dels. Anne Healey and Ashanti Martinez and Prince George's County Councilman Eric Olson.
    Moore’s maglev support angers Marylanders in path of high-speed train: ‘Can’t stop fighting’
    About 100 people packed a stuffy library meeting room in Greenbelt to vent frustration about the Democratic governor's enthusiasm for a maglev train between Washington and Baltimore.
    Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., speaks during a news conference upon his arrival from meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
    Van Hollen says improperly deported man ‘traumatized’ by time in dangerous prison
    Sen. Van Hollen is the first person Kilmar Abrego Garcia has spoken to see being unlawfully deported and imprisoned in El Salvador. He told the senator he wants to talk to his wife.
    Maryland Gov. Wes Moore presented Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa of the Kanagawa Prefecture a signed Tomoyuki Sugano Baltimore Orioles jersey. A pitcher for the Os, Sugano is from the Kanagawa Prefecture and is a three-time MVP in Japan.
    Moore’s Asia trip helped by baseball talk and a slight football gaffe
    Sports were frequent cultural touchstones on Gov. Wes Moore's trip to Japan and South Korea.
    The Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, Md. is seen on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
    Judge rips Maryland Health Department plan for psychiatric bed crisis: ‘This is about people’
    An Anne Arundel County judge has ripped the Maryland Department of Health for its presentation of what he described as a woefully inadequate plan to address the state’s psychiatric bed crisis.
    The Howard Community College board is set to expand by two members.
    Lawmakers hope changes bring more stability, transparency to Howard Community College
    After a tumultuous seven months, the Howard Community College board is at full strength and set to expand by two members, with new rules in place to ensure more transparency over its decision making.
    Sen Chris Van Hollen posted a video to social media from the airport before boarding a flight to El Salvador on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
    Van Hollen lands in El Salvador, hopes to see Maryland dad wrongly deported
    The senator said he plans to meet with government officials to discuss Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release.
    From left, Moore, Peter Chapman, executive chairman of IonQ, and Hirobe Masahiro, Deputy Director of the Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI Technology (G-QuAT), National Institute of of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
    As Wes Moore sells Maryland to Asia, Trump’s tariffs cast shadow
    Recently proposed tariffs on computer chips and other electronics complicate Gov. Wes Moore's hallmark economic initiative.
    President Donald Trump  meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office.
    Salvadoran president: ‘I don’t have the power’ to return wrongly deported Maryland man to US
    President Nayib Bukele said he had no way to move the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, out of a prison in El Salvador and back to the United States.
    Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced the guilty plea on Monday, saying the investigation into the matter is ongoing.
    Baltimore County man pleads guilty to paying thousands in bribes to former state official
    A Randallstown man pleaded guilty to paying about $20,000 in bribes to steer state contracts to his company.
    Paul Wiedefeld, secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation, at a news conference in Edgemere in February.
    From budgets to speed cameras: How Maryland transportation fared in the General Assembly
    Dozens of transportation-related bills passed in the recent General Assembly session that will impact the ways Marylanders move around the state, and plenty of notable ones didn’t.
    Gov. Wes Moore prepares to enter the Governor's Reception Room at the Maryland State House. How do you grade a governor?
    Grading Wes Moore: How to rate Maryland’s cheerleader-in-chief
    All the mean-girl tweets, opinion posturing and campaign stunts ahead will just be partisan noise. There are ways to judge Gov. Wes Moore’s performance so far.
    Gov. Wes Moore smiles as he departs a Central Japan Railway Company SCMAGLEV train Saturday, April 12, 2025. "Wow" is how he described the experience, a 311 MPH futuristic train ride.
    Gov. Wes Moore kicks off Asia trade trip with maglev train ride: ‘This is the future’
    Moore needed one word to summarize the experience: “Wow.”
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