U.S. Supreme Court upholds WWI memorial cross on public land in Maryland
A 40-foot-tall, World War I memorial cross can continue to stand on public land in Maryland, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in an important decision about the use of religious symbols in American life. The justices said preserving a long-standing religious monument is very different ...
Employee guns down three at Maryland distribution hub before killing herself
An employee at a Rite Aid warehouse opened fire at work Thursday, killing three people before taking her own life, authorities said. Several other people were wounded. The suspect was a 26-year-old temporary employee at the Rite Aid distribution center in northeastern Maryland, Harford County ...
U.S. top court sidesteps major rulings on partisan gerrymandering electoral map manipulation
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to election reformers by declining to use high-profile cases from Wisconsin and Maryland to curb the ability of state lawmakers to draw electoral districts purely for partisan advantage. Sidestepping major rulings, the nine justices decided both ...
Japan Times Bee winner Hanna Yoshida out of Scripps National Spelling Bee
Despite a solid performance in the oral competition Wednesday in the U.S. spelling bee, Japan Times Bee winner Hanna Yoshida failed to qualify for Thursday's finals due to weak written test results. During Wednesday's performance at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Maryland, ...
Trump sued over business dealings, accused of Constitutional violations
President Donald Trump's continued financial stake in his global business empire violates the U.S. Constitution's limits on profiting from his office, Maryland and the District of Columbia said in a federal lawsuit. Their complaint, filed Monday in Greenbelt, Maryland, says Trump is violating two provisions ...
Maryland hospital becomes hazmat zone after pair sickened by mailed package are brought in
Police in Maryland say two people have been sickened after opening a package that they received in the mail. Frederick Police Lt. Clark Pennington says the two went to a hospital for treatment and brought the package with them, and the hospital was considered a ...
President Donald Trump's revised travel ban has suffered another federal court setback after a judge in Maryland rejected a revised measure that bans travel targeting six predominantly Muslim countries. Judge Theodore Chuang ruled Thursday in a case brought near the nation's capital by the American ...
Flash flood rages down historic Maryland mainstreet, kills two
Flooding from torrential rain killed two people in Ellicott City, Maryland, with floodwaters that tore through the U.S. town's historic downtown, collapsing a street and sweeping away cars. Ellicott City was pounded by almost 6 inches (15 cm) of rain in two hours late on ...
Obama can't get Senate to budge on Supreme Court pick but Maryland judge nominee narrowly gets in
The Senate on Monday narrowly confirmed one of President Barack Obama's nominees to be a federal judge in Maryland, overcoming opposition from some conservatives who felt nominee Paula Xinis was too tough on law enforcement in her career as a lawyer and assistant federal ...
The Oregon Ducks took a double-digit lead early in the second half against the defending national champions, and they never flinched down the stretch. After taking down mighty Duke with remarkably little drama, these high-flying Ducks are on the brink of the Final Four. Dillon Brooks ...
'Friendly fire' killed undercover cop responding to suicidal ambush at police station
An undercover narcotics officer was mortally wounded by one of his colleagues as he responded to an attack on his police station by a gunman with a death wish, their police chief angrily explained on Monday. And while Officer Jacai Colson lay dying, the gunman's ...
A Maryland woman was found pushing her dead 3-year-old son in a park swing Friday, and authorities say she may have been there for hours, or even since the day before. There were no obvious signs of foul play, but it has not been ruled ...
