Jun 25 Supreme Court won't hear North Carolina districting dispute By Associated Press The Supreme Court is choosing not to take on a new case on partisan redistricting for now. Instead, the justices are sending a dispute over North Carolina's heavily Republican congressional districting map back to a lower court for more work. Continue reading
Jun 18 Supreme Court justices sidestep a definitive ruling in two redistricting cases By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The Supreme Court is resolving partisan redistricting cases from Wisconsin and Maryland without ruling on the broader issue of whether electoral maps can give an unfair advantage to a political party. Continue reading
May 28 WATCH: Man remains missing after flash flooding in Maryland By David McFadden, Associated Press Eddison Hermond, 39, of Severn, Maryland, was last seen 5:20 p.m. ET Sunday during the height of flooding in and around Ellicott City, Maryland, Howard County police said, according to the Associated Press. Continue reading
Apr 05 Watch 4:32 How a self-taught fossil hunter made his biggest discovery By Pamela Kirkland In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, this self-taught paleontologist has been looking for dinosaurs in creek beds and rivers for more than 30 years, and has become something of a legend in the field. Then, outside a NASA… Continue watching
Mar 28 Maryland redistricting case comes before Supreme Court By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The Supreme Court is taking up its second big partisan redistricting case of the term amid signs the justices could place limits on drawing maps for political gain. Continue reading
Mar 23 Life support ends for 'brain dead' school shooting victim in Maryland By Matthew Barakat and Brian Witte, Associated Press A teenage girl was brain dead days after being shot when a classmate opened fire inside their Maryland high school and was to be removed from life support, her mother said Thursday. Continue reading
Mar 20 1 student dead, 2 wounded in Maryland high school shooting, sheriff says By Alex Brandon, Associated Press A teenager wounded a girl and a boy inside his Maryland high school Tuesday before an armed school resource officer was able to intervene, and each of them fired one more round as the shooter was fatally wounded, a sheriff… Continue reading
Mar 12 Watch 6:49 To solve opioid epidemic, governors say there need to be federal dollars behind pledges By PBS News Hour The governors of Maryland and Oregon are making an urgent call for greater federal help to deal with the opioid epidemic in their hard-hit states. Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md., and Gov. Kate Brown, D-Ore., sit down with William Brangham to… Continue watching
Jan 13 Chelsea Manning files for U.S. Senate bid in Maryland By Associated Press Chelsea Manning will run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland. Continue reading
Sep 29 Behind the castle doors, a crew of Renaissance fair workers find family amid the fantasy By Alison Thoet Behind the scenes of this fleeting fantasy world is a tight-knit community of artisans, entrepreneurs and free spirits who reunite at the Maryland festival every year, and have for decades. Continue reading