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ANNAPOLIS — Election night was a week ago, but problems at polling places around the state drew the attention of members of the Board of Public Works Wednesday. General election night “glitches” in several counties delayed the timely release of results. Some ...

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

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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.

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

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

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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, ...

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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.

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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 ...