ANNAPOLIS — State Sen. Nancy Jacobs says she will not seek re-election next year. The 61-year-old Republican senator who represents Cecil and Harford counties made the announcement Tuesday in a news release. She says the difficult decision was made after ...

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State Sen. Ulysses S. Currie remained calm and poised Tuesday in the hall outside the federal courtroom where a jury had just acquitted him of all charges in a corruption scandal. He thanked his legal team, called the verdict a ...

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The jury in a federal bribery case against state Sen. Ulysses Currie has reached a verdict. A court official says the verdict is scheduled to be read in U.S. District Court in Baltimore at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The verdict ...

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A federal judge on Monday told the jury weighing a bribery and conspiracy case against Sen. Ulysses Currie that the alleged conspiracy between him and two former grocery store executives did not have to occur in the first months of ...

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A federal judge has denied a request by a state senator’s attorneys to dismiss bribery charges against the senator. U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett issued the order denying the request on Friday. Lawyers for Sen. Ulysses Currie had argued that ...

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State Sen. Catherine Pugh is raising money as a candidate for Baltimore mayor, but a spokesman says she has not decided whether to run yet. The invitation for the June 21 event at Gertrude’s at the Baltimore Museum of Art ...

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Federal prosecutors must hand over the names of state Sen. Ulysses S. Currie’s unindicted co-conspirators to the defense team in his bribery case, a judge said Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Judge Richard D. Bennett called the disclosures ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Same-sex marriage supporters will rally in front of the Maryland State House on Valentine’s Day as part of a national campaign. Supporters of a measure to legalize the unions in Maryland said last week they will rally in ...

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ANNAPOLIS — State Sen. Ulysses Currie’s campaign treasurer has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $150,000 from the senator’s campaign. The State Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday that 65-year-old Olivia Harris pleaded guilty in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to theft ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A group of Maryland lawmakers want to close a tax loophole for large businesses that operate in multiple states. Sen. Paul Pinsky, a Prince George’s County Democrat, said Tuesday that Maryland is still using a tax policy that ...

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