All public schools in Maryland will be closed for two weeks, gatherings of more than 250 people are banned and the governor has activated the National Guard to a higher state of readiness. Gov. Larry Hogan announced drastic safety measures Thursday afternoon to try to contain the spread of coronavirus. Public schools will be closed March 16 through March 27,…

President Donald Trump says he isn’t concerned that the coronavirus is getting closer to the nation’s capital and the White House.

Someone disguised as a UPS delivery man forced his way into the home of a family in Montgomery County, Maryland, and pulled out a gun.

Two families with lifelong secrets unearthed because of home DNA test kits are now dealing with the truth. Here’s what their stories tell us about the shock that can come from new ancestry technology, and how to deal with it.

A Maryland woman will spend 180 days in jail for keeping 66 dogs in deplorable conditions in her home.

Republican lawmakers in Maryland are criticizing a history lesson at a public high school near Baltimore that compared President Donald Trump with Nazis and communists

A family friend of a pizza delivery driver who was recently gunned down in Baltimore says he had fled war-torn Syria to seek a better life

A Navy midshipman has died while taking a physical readiness test at the U.S. Naval Academy.

A Maryland man has been charged with murder and attempted murder in an apparently random shooting aboard a Greyhound bus in California that killed a woman and injured five other people.

Love Old Bay? Meet Old Bay Hot Sauce. Old Bay Hot Sauce goes on sale starting Wednesday, the company behind the Maryland favorite announced. “Old Bay Seasoning and hot sauce go together like … well, Old Bay and everything,” a company spokeswoman said in a statement. The hot sauce will be sold on OldBay.com and, starting in early February, at…

A Prince George’s County police officer who shot and killed a suspect who was handcuffed and wearing a seat belt inside a police cruiser Monday night in Maryland is in custody and facing charges, police said. Cpl. Michael Owen Jr., a 10-year veteran of the department, is charged with second-degree murder, involuntary and voluntary manslaughter, first-degree assault and use...

The three men were believed to be planning to attend the pro-gun rally planned for Monday in Richmond, according to a law enforcement official who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

A Maryland man pleaded guilty Tuesday to posting threats on Facebook that he planned to kill Hispanics in Florida and elsewhere. Court records show 35-year-old Eric Lin of Clarksburg, Maryland, admitted in Miami federal court that he sent threatening communications in interstate commerce between May and August of last year. Lin faces up to five years in federal prison at…

A former Maryland state lawmaker has been sentenced to six months in prison followed by two months of home detention for misusing campaign funds for her personal benefit. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang also on Friday ordered Tawanna Gaines to pay $22,565 in restitution. Gaines, a Democrat, had served in the Maryland House of Delegates since 2001. She pleaded guilty...

A Nigerian man died in federal immigration custody over the weekend, days after he was convicted of a sex offense and assault in Maryland. Anthony Oluseye Akinyemi, 56, died Saturday after being found unresponsive in his cell at the Worcester County Jail in Snow Hill, Maryland, according to a Monday news release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The official…

A Baltimore man is suing over a take-home paternity test he says incorrectly indicated he was the father of a 1-year-old girl. Nnanaka Nwofor wants the Ohio-based testing company to pay $75,000 for the cost of supporting the child and her mother and the pain of learning he wasn’t the father.

Police in Prince George’s County, Maryland, are investigating after a dead fetus was found in the women’s bathroom of a restaurant.

U.S. health officials are warning people not to eat romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, after an E. coli-linked food poisoning outbreak reached 67 cases across 19 states. The Centers for Disease Control on Tuesday said 39 people had been hospitalized after contracting the food-borne illness, which can cause diarrhea, vomiting and fever. No deaths have been reported. The CDC...