ANNAPOLIS — D.C. Metro transit officials are asking Maryland lawmakers to help stave off their latest budget crisis. But senior legislators say the state’s own budget calamity means they aren’t in a position to do so. “Everything’s stretched,” Senate President…
Maryland considers shake-up in how judges are picked
Maryland lawmakers are weighing two bills this year that would shake up how the state chooses circuit court judges.
Fearing ICE raids, Delmarva immigrants mostly stay home
As rumors of pending raids circulate through rural communities on the Delmarva Peninsula, places like Race Street have grown eerily quiet.
Lawmakers debate the sentencing of youth as adults
Maryland lawmakers are once again debating whether to scale back the state’s practice of automatically placing teenage defendants in adult court if they are accused of serious crimes.
Should Maryland grant parole to more elderly and ill inmates?
ANNAPOLIS–Maryland lawmakers are divided on whether to clear the path for elderly and seriously ill inmates to more easily seek early release from prison. Those backing a set of proposed reforms argue that the state incarcerates some people who are…
Maryland officials hustle to contain avian flu outbreak
Four flocks of chickens on Maryland’s Eastern Shore have tested positive for the avian influenza virus, also known as avian flu, since early January. Maryland state agencies are now hurrying to contain the outbreak, the further spread of which could…
Police drones are flying over Maryland. Will state lawmakers regulate them?
ANNAPOLIS – On an afternoon in mid-January, a Montgomery County police drone tracked a shoplifting suspect as he made his way from a Wheaton CVS to the entrance of a nearby Metro station, where a patrol unit intercepted and arrested…