Brian Witte

Maryland’s House speaker has removed a white lawmaker from a leadership position for using a racial slur for black people.

Gov. Larry Hogan says he wants to resolve a long-running dispute over Maryland’s treatment of its historically black colleges, but members of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland say the state needs to do better than the $100 million settlement offer over 10 years proposed last year.

The disgraced former mayor of Baltimore pleaded guilty Thursday to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges in a case involving sales of her self-published children’s books.

A Maryland lawmaker said legislation is being considered to resolve a long-running lawsuit in federal court over program disparities between four historically black colleges and traditionally white colleges.

A Maryland judge on Thursday scheduled a March trial to determine whether a man who has pleaded guilty to killing five people at a Maryland newspaper is not criminally responsible because of mental illness.

After he pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible to the shooting that killed five employees at the Capital Gazette, the trial for Jarrod Ramos has been postponed. Chris Gordon reports.

A Maryland man pleaded guilty Monday in the slayings of five employees at an Annapolis newspaper, and a jury is expected to hear testimony next month about whether he was not responsible by reason of insanity. Jarrod Ramos pleaded guilty in the 2018 massacre at the Capital Gazette newspaper. Judge Laura Ripken accepted his plea Monday afternoon.

Surveillance video inside a Maryland newspaper office that shows a wounded employee crawling away and others hiding or running for their lives during a gunman’s rampage can be used at the suspect’s trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.

The colleges say the state underfunded them while developing programs at traditionally white schools.

Maryland narrowed the possibilities for a potential new crossing over the Chesapeake Bay to ease traffic congestion to three areas near the current twin spans of the Bay Bridge, state officials announced Tuesday.

Maryland leaders have narrowed down some options to build a new span across the Chesapeake. News4’s Adam Tuss has the details.

Journalists honored the five Capital Gazette employees who were shot to death in their newsroom last year by unveiling a plaque Friday with the names of the dead in a garden next to five rosebushes.

Gov. Larry Hogan announced Wednesday he will release $255 million in extra education funding in the next fiscal year to begin implementing a long-term plan to improve Maryland schools, but he expressed concerns about the blueprint approved by lawmakers this year by deciding to let the measure go into law without his signature.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned Thursday following controversy about the sale of her self-published children’s books to entities that had business with the city. Erika Gonzalez explains why the mayor didn’t make the announcement herself.

Attorneys for the man accused of killing five people at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, say he has changed his not guilty plea to an insanity defense.

A judge is scheduled to hear arguments about whether a man charged with killing five people at a Maryland newspaper office should have more time to consider an insanity plea.

Maryland became the sixth state in the nation to approve a gradual minimum wage increase to $15 an hour.

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A judge is expected to hear arguments next week about whether a man charged with killing five people at a Maryland newspaper office should have more time to consider an insanity plea.

While Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan isn’t completely ruling out a potential primary challenge to President Donald Trump, he said Thursday that currently “it doesn’t make any sense at all.”