Maryland Daily Record Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news

A Maryland man arrested on a trespassing charge has been found dead in his holding cell.

Tagged with: Baltimore baltimore central booking and intake center David Ott maryland department of public safety and correctional services

Howard County’s new five-member council and executive will have to hit the ground running on a $50 million flood mitigation plan for Ellicott City.

Tagged with: allan kittleman calvin ball ellicott city Jen Terrasa Jon Weinstein Liz Walsh Nicholas Redding Preservation Maryland Tiber River

The mayor of Baltimore has appointed a Georgetown University administrator to lead the city's Office of Civil Rights.

Tagged with: andre davis Baltimore Office of Civil Rights Bridal Pearson Catherine Pugh Darnell Ingram

Baltimore's mayor says the search for the next commissioner of the city's troubled police department is down to one candidate.

Tagged with: Baltimore Police Department Catherine Pugh darryl de sousa gary tuggle Kevin Davis

ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Larry Hogan Wednesday lamented the election night defeats of members of his own party in Maryland and laid the blame on the president of the United States. “I think it was a tough night,” said Hogan at ...

A three-judge panel on Wednesday struck down as unconstitutionally gerrymandered a western Maryland congressional district, agreeing with Republican voters that it was so severely tilted to ensure a Democrat’s election as to violate the GOP members’ right to political association. ...

The University System of Maryland Board of Regents elected Linda Gooden as the board’s new chair following former chair James Brady’s resignation last week. Gooden is a retired Lockheed Martin executive and also serves on the boards of GM, Home Depot, ...

Tagged with: USM Board of Regents

A majority of voters casting midterm election ballots in Maryland said the country is headed in the wrong direction, according to a wide-ranging survey of the American electorate.

Tagged with: Elections

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan may have surfed a blue wave to a second term on his “purple surfboard,” but Republicans seeking the top office in counties around the state — including two incumbents — didn’t fare as well. Republican incumbents ...

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan coasted to a convincing victory Tuesday night and vowed to “work for all Marylanders,” saying he survived an expected “blue wave” of Democratic anger focused on President Donald Trump. “It turns out I can surf and we had a ...