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Maryland is slowly digging out of a backlog of unemployment claims even as state labor officials say they are wrangling information to comply with a federal subpoena. Labor Secretary Tiffany Robinson told a panel of lawmakers Wednesday that her agency ...

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Data from the Maryland Department of Education shows the state’s school systems are still suspending about 1,200 students in pre-kindergarten through second grade every year despite a 2017 law intended to virtually eliminate such suspensions.

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Gun buyers in Maryland should expect delays for background checks because of a “catastrophic hardware failure” in a state data system, authorities said in an advisory this week.

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Leaders of the state’s commission on police training faced tough questions from a panel of state delegates who are charged with making recommendations for sweeping changes to how law enforcement officers do their jobs. The Work Group to Address Police ...

Gov. Larry Hogan is facing some strident criticism about his efforts to ward off the effects of the coronavirus in Maryland from an unlikely source — his own party. Hogan certainly has no shortage of legislative Democrats who have criticized ...

Education and health services led the way as Maryland added nearly 30,000 jobs in May, dropping the state’s unemployment rate to 9.9%. News of the added jobs — still fewer than the total number of first-time unemployment claims made last ...

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State elections officials vowed that they would learn from the mistakes of the June primary election even as they praised staff and local elections officials. Maryland conducted its first mostly by mail election in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. ...

Two brothers exonerated last year after serving 24 years in prison for a murder conviction will be paid nearly $4 million in combined restitution from the state of Maryland. The payments to Eric Simmons and Kenneth McPherson are the latest in ...

Maryland election officials faced criticism Tuesday from lawmakers who questioned them about problems with the state's mostly mail-in primary, at a hearing to explore ways to make mail-in voting trouble free in November if it's required again by the virus outbreak.

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House Speaker Adrienne Jones and House Democrats are calling on Gov. Larry Hogan to immediately implement a number of police reforms through executive orders. Jones has already called for a work group to begin looking at ways to reform law ...