In the embarrassment that is state Sen. Ulysses Currie’s corruption trial, there’s a crashing irony. His lawyers are mounting the “I’m an idiot” defense. The world at large may hope this is just a wink and a nod, an obvious ...

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UPPER MARLBORO — Prince George’s County residents will be heading to the polls to choose a successor to former Councilwoman Leslie Johnson. Derrick Leon Davis won a 14-way Democratic primary last month to fill Johnson’s District 6 seat after receiving ...

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GREENBELT — A new sentencing date has been set for former Prince George’s County Councilwoman Leslie Johnson. Johnson pleaded guilty in June to destroying evidence in a federal corruption probe that also ensnared her husband, former County Executive Jack Johnson. ...

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Two multimillion-dollar lawsuits filed in Baltimore City are among the most-read legal affairs stories this week. One lawsuit alleges police misconduct, the other filed in response to a boy being attacked by the pit bull. But the top stories of ...

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Whether your daily routine starts with going to get the newspaper, consulting online news sources or both to complement your coffee, there are inevitably two themes which leap off the pages of whatever you read — the loss of confidence ...

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We are told now and then that a “culture of corruption” exists in Annapolis. It’s not true. But there are aspects of life in the lawmaking arena which can be toxic to the process of lawmaking. Legislators and lobbyists have ...

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Watching and listening to our elected congressmen and senators stumble toward the latest deadline for addressing the debt limit crisis by rhetorically scratching and clawing at each other is at best annoying and at worse numbing. That “crisis,” like previous ...

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GREENBELT — A former Prince George’s County fire department official is the latest person to face prison time as a result of a wide-ranging probe into corruption in the county. Karl Granzow pleaded guilty in March to extortion conspiracy and ...

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Finally someone has stepped forward with a plan to get a handle on the soaring cost of police misconduct in Baltimore and the underlying inadequacies in training that contribute to it. Now let’s hope that plan makes a difference. Six ...

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WASHINGTON — The wife of former Prince George’s County Executive Jack B. Johnson resigned from her seat on the County Council on Tuesday, five days after she pleaded guilty to destroying evidence in a federal corruption probe. Leslie E. Johnson ...

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