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Saint Victor AR-15 Rifle is displayed during the National Rifle Association annual convention in Houston, Texas, May 27, 2022. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo)
Aug 4, 2026

Trump administration sues Montgomery County over gun law

The Department of Justice sued Montgomery County over a local gun law that the Trump administration alleges violates the Second Amendment.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington on Dec. 18, 2023. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo)
Aug 4, 2026

Supreme Court won’t halt $655M judgment against Palestinians over attacks

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to halt $655.5 million in damages that Palestinian authorities were ordered to pay plaintiffs in a civil lawsuit concerning attacks that killed and injured Americans in Israel.

A Maryland State Police vehicle rests on a highway shoulder. (File photo)
Aug 4, 2026

A young woman’s body was found 35 years ago in MD. She might finally be identified.

Maryland investigators are using forensic genetic genealogy to try to identify a woman found dead in 1991 near Interstate 270 in Frederick County.

Great Wolf Lodge, an indoor water park chain, is opening a new resort in Cecil County, Maryland, less than a half hour drive from Delaware.
Aug 3, 2026

Woman sues Great Wolf Lodge after alleged neck injury on Perryville waterslide

A woman sued Great Wolf Lodge after she says she sustained a severe neck injury on a waterslide at its indoor water park and resort in Perryville.

Two years after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, the Weeks 533 crane drives a pile beneath the Patapsco River on the site of a new bridge. (Dan Belson/The Daily Record)
Aug 3, 2026

Key Bridge collapse: Judge throws out Dali owners’ lawsuit against shipbuilder

A federal judge in Philadelphia dismissed the Dali shipowners' lawsuit alleging that Hyundai Heavy Industries sold them a defective freighter years before it crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Shipping containers are stacked at a terminal at the port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California, March 10, 2026. (REUTERS/Caroline Brehman/File Photo)
Aug 3, 2026

MD, states sue to challenge Trump’s latest tariffs

A group of 25 states, including Maryland, sued the Trump administration, over its latest round of tariffs on goods from 60 trading partners.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown speaks on May 15, 2024. (The Daily Record/Jack Hogan)
Aug 3, 2026

MD joins lawsuit over Trump policy of sharing benefits data with immigration authorities

Maryland sued to block a new policy allowing federal immigration authorities to receive information about low-income families with children enrolled in a cash-assistance program.

Visitors to the Lincoln Memorial walk near the drained Reflecting Pool, following renovations and Independence Day celebrations in Washington on July 30, 2026. (REUTERS/Nathan Howard)
Aug 3, 2026

DOJ says ‘flawed’ work — not MD resident — led to Reflecting Pool peeling

A flawed installation, not vandalism, caused the liner of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to peel, the Justice Department said, as it dropped its case against a former U.S. Olympian and Bethesda resident.

A reveller smokes cannabis at the Mile High 420 Festival in Denver on April 20, 2026. (REUTERS/Cheney Orr)
Aug 3, 2026

Smell of cannabis can trigger police search if it’s not the only factor, MD court rules

An odor of marijuana is not normally sufficient cause for police to conduct a search, but it can be if police determine that the occupants of a car are minors, a Maryland court ruled.

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche walks through the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 29, 2026. (REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden/File Photo)
Aug 3, 2026

GOP senators to back Blanche as AG after he rescinds ‘weaponization’ fund

Two key Republican senators said they would support Todd Blanche's nomination for U.S. attorney general, paving the way for his confirmation.

Then state Del. Dalya Attar, a Baltimore City Democrat, in February 2024 called for lawmakers to prohibit Zainab Chaudry and the Council on American-Islamic Relations from serving on the Maryland Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention. (The Daily Record/Jack Hogan)
Jul 31, 2026

Dalya Attar case: Most charges dismissed against MD senator

Most of the criminal charges against Maryland state Sen. Dalya Attar — including extortion — were dismissed Friday.

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Jul 31, 2026

With law school deans off board, who oversees Baltimore inspector general?

Maryland's two law school deans resigned from the Baltimore City Inspector General Advisory Board. Who does that leave amid Isabel Mercedes Cumming's legal fight with the mayor?