Food and Friends Gives a Helping Hand to Ailing People in Need

This Thanksgiving Day, the employees will be preparing a total of 7,860 pounds of turkey, 1,050 pounds of roasted potatoes, 975 pounds of cornbread stuffing and 5,240 dinner rolls to their clients living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses, free of charge.

Lead Challenge

It’s one of those dangers that often goes unnoticed: lead exposure from chipping or peeling paint in older homes. And it’s gone on for generations. But the push is on by the state and activists to get the lead…out.

O’Malley Unveils Healthcare Plan, Aims for 95 Percent Coverage

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley unveiled his healthcare plan Tuesday, aiming to improve on the Affordable Care Act and expand health coverage.

Maryland Health Officials Lower Testing Age for Lead Poisoning

State mandates that children aged one and two should undergo blood tests to detect lead levels

Maryland Squirrel Pulled From Endangered List Following Conservation Action

A once at-risk squirrel was taken off the federal endangered species list on Monday.

Maryland uses these emoji…

Despite being near the water, Marylanders use ocean creature emoji less than the average American.

Gov. Hogan requests State Dept. pause Syrian resettlements in Maryland 

There have been 38 Syrian refugees resettled in Maryland since Jan. 1, 2014

Test Your Knowledge of Maryland News, November 13 Edition

How much do you know about what happened in Maryland this week?

VETERANS CITIZENSHIP: 19 People Become U.S. Citizens Aboard the USS Torsk

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services holds a special Veterans Day naturalization ceremony aboard the USS Torsk in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Operation Homecoming aims to eliminate veteran homelessness in Montgomery County by 2016

The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless is on a mission:to house all homeless veterans identified in Montgomery County by the end of 2015.