COLLEGE PARK – Former University of Maryland star basketball player Steve Francis was preparing for the start of the NBA season, playing pick-up games with former teammates in Cole Field House Monday, when a tornado tore through campus

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland Senate Republicans took just over an hour Thursday afternoon to unanimously select Sen

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has held that Maryland is immune from lawsuits under the Family Medical Leave Act, which guarantees employees an identical job to the one they left temporarily for medical reasons

ANNAPOLIS – The Court of Special Appeals rejected Hadden Clark’s bid for a new trial in the 1986 murder of 6-year-old Michele Dorr Wednesday, upholding the Montgomery County Circuit Court decision to include evidence and testimony that the defense argued were hearsay and inadmissible

ANNAPOLIS – About 100 Maryland National Guardsmen will provide additional security in the state’s three commercial airports, but not before they receive special training to prepare them for “civilian interaction,” said Gov

WASHINGTON – They don’t know where they’re going or exactly what their jobs will be, but members of the Maryland-based 459th Security Forces Squadron of the Air Force Reserves have been called to service and told to get their affairs in order

COLLEGE PARK – Hundreds of University of Maryland students were allowed back into tornado-damaged apartments Wednesday and given 15 minutes to collect up clothes, books and other parts of their lives before being shooed away again

ANNAPOLIS – Health care experts warned lawmakers Wednesday that Health Choice, Maryland’s largest Medicaid program, is in danger of collapse if it doesn’t get more money soon

WASHINGTON – Next to a locked-down newsstand, where racks of Sept

ANNAPOLIS – Tornado damage closed Laurel High School Tuesday — along with all other Prince George’s County schools — but some teachers couldn’t stay away