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| washingtonpost.com - Maryland
A 78-year-old Potomac woman was killed this morning after she was trapped in a house fire that critically injured her son, Montgomery County fire officials said.
Opponents of a November referendum on slot machines filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging the proposed constitutional amendment.
Maryland could face a budget shortfall of up to $1 billion in its next fiscal year despite a series of tax increases and spending reductions that were intended to largely solve the state's chronic fiscal problems.
DENVER, Aug. 28 -- About 20 minutes before Barack Obama officially secured the Democratic nomination for president Wednesday, the Illinois senator picked up the phone and called Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who was a big supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's during the primaries.
The emergence of Bloods and Crips, gangs that originated on the West Coast and are establishing themselves in the Washington area, has contributed to several homicides in Prince George's County this year and has become a growing concern in the District, law enforcement officials said.
Former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Maryland's most prominent Republican, has decided to skip his party's national convention in St. Paul, Minn., next week, citing a busy schedule of things to do with his law firm and his son's football team.
Lane closures and continuing work on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge could wreak havoc with end-of-summer travel plans this holiday weekend.
Prince George's County police have shot and killed more than twice as many people this year as in all of last year and more than in any year since before 2004, when allegations of excessive force led federal authorities to begin monitoring the department.
The Prince George's County Board of Education is unleashing a barrage of television, radio and print advertising as part of a crackdown on one of the school system's most serious problems: the 6,000 students who are regularly skipping class.
Seventeen-year-old Miranda Ross wasn't thrilled when her mother, Debra, told her she would miss the first week of school because they would be attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
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