Talk about a gamble – Gov. Martin O’Malley is calling a special session of the Maryland General Assembly this month in hopes of approving a plan to greatly expand casino gambling in the Free State.

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As scandals go, it was short-lived but sharp. About a week before boarding the plane to London, a member of the U.S. Olympic swim team told his hometown paper that he, in fact, works harder than that 14-gold-medal-winning slacker, Michael ...

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Four years ago, the city of Baltimore filed a federal lawsuit against Wells Fargo, contending that the city had lost property tax revenue amid a rising demand for municipal services because of foreclosures caused by the bank’s discriminatory lending practices.

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There are many welcome signs of summer in Baltimore – steamed crabs, snow cones and the Orioles, to name a few – and one of them has come to be the Little Italy Outdoor Film festival. The 2012 season began ...

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Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport added new meaning to two of the key words in its lengthy moniker last week. And that was good news for the flying public. On July 2, Condor Airlines began service from BWI to Frankfurt ...

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In case you were wondering who won the Great Gambling Debate of the 2012 regular session of the Maryland General Assembly, the results are in, and there is a clear winner – lobbyists. Their earnings for the six months including ...

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Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. For all its truth, that time-honored maxim omits a crucial step: the mea culpa, the point at which we see the error of our ways and resolve to do better. ...

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Congratulations to Douglas F. Gansler as he begins his year as president of the National Association of Attorneys General. The election of Mr. Gansler, the first Maryland attorney general to be NAAG president since Francis B. Burch in 1970, is ...

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There is a long, proud history of making steel and ships on the marshy peninsula of southeastern Baltimore County hard by Dundalk known as Sparrows Point. The steel mill and shipyard were established there by the Pennsylvania Steel Co. in ...

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Prince George’s County is getting serious about monitoring gun offenders who are no longer incarcerated. Good. Under legislation passed unanimously on Tuesday by the county council, persons convicted of gun-related crimes will be required to register and check in regularly ...

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