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ANNAPOLIS — Advocates hope 2020 will be the year that the Maryland General Assembly passes  legislation legalizing aid-in-dying for terminally ill patients. The legislation has failed four times, including last year when, after days of emotional debate in the Senate, ...

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A rehabilitation project on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge will be complete by this summer, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday. In addition to wrapping up work on the westbound right lane, all-electronic tolling will be implemented by ...

Chanel A. Branch, an administrator in the Maryland Department of Human Services, has been appointed by the governor to fill the House of Delegates’ vacancy left by the resignation of Cheryl Glenn. Gov. Larry Hogan announced the appointment of Branch, ...

ANNAPOLIS — A conservation group announced Monday that it’s preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce the Clean Water Act relating to pollution limits for the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation announced it is preparing ...

The Daily Record spoke with AARP Maryland’s State President Jim Campbell about the organization’s efforts this session as well as the growing number of older adults who want to age in place.

A top applicant in the latest round of applications for medical cannabis growers licenses is demanding the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission immediately award four licenses following the conviction of a state delegate whom it says corrupted the process. The letter ...

Maryland Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford is leading an economic development trade trip to the United Arab Emirates and Israel.

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top jurist called Thursday for the abolition of contested elections to circuit court judgeships in the state, saying a truly independent judiciary must be free of the need to make campaign promises and to raise money from ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland lawmakers hope to repeal “archaic” provisions in the state’s spousal defense for sex crimes and sodomy laws with the reintroduction of legislation this session. Lawmakers on Jan. 30 expect to hear Senate Bill 230, which would repeal ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Officials from one rural county told lawmakers Thursday that a plan to fix inequities in state school construction favors larger urban jurisdictions and would force many rural counties to fight for table scraps. Legislators in the House and Senate ...