Pamela Wood

Maryland lawmakers on Tuesday expressed deep frustration with corrections leaders after a scathing audit found the state provided little oversight to for-profit medical contractors in state-run prisons and jails.

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“We will pause the elements that need a closer look or require laying a stronger foundation for full implementation,” Moore said, according to remarks prepared for an audience of local government leaders.

Police and state officials are investigating a break in last month at the Maryland Department of Health headquarters — an incident in which the intruder or intruders searched desks and drawers — as well as a bomb threat.

Sen. Jill Carter, a Baltimore City Democrat, will resign from the Maryland Senate for a board appointment from Gov. Wes Moore.

Maryland is one of six states that has participated in the electoral college since the country’s inaugural in 1789.

Maryland's budget problem is getting bigger, and no one has proposed a comprehensive solution to fix it yet.

The funding for the Key Bridge rebuild was wrapped into the latest federal spending bill, known as a continuing resolution, that keeps the government operating, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin announced.

Three more court buildings in Baltimore tested positive for the bacteria that can cause Legionnaire's Disease, officials announced Friday.

Moore, a veteran of the Army Reserves, had served a deployment to Afghanistan in 2005 and 2006, and his supervisor nominated him for the Bronze Star.