Though President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued on Jan. 1, 1863, did not free the enslaved people in Maryland, it allowed African Americans throughout the nation to serve in the Union ...

An 86-year-old Charles County man has been missing since going for his afternoon walk in chilly weather three weeks ago.

While a federal funding freeze has been stopped in the courts for now, Maryland’s comptroller said there’s still a lot of confusion on how it impacts the state.

Exactly 130 years after Frederick Douglass’ death, the Talbot County-born abolitionist and civil rights leader was honored ...

Financial pain is coming as Maryland faces a nearly 3-billion-dollar budget deficit due in large part to public education ...

An 18-year-old Landover man was charged in the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man police say he knew Sunday evening.

LANHAM, Md. — Prince George’s County is moving closer to banning the parking and abandonment of boats on public roads after the County Council gave preliminary approval to a new bill on Tuesday. The ...

Tina Harris remembers the day her grandmother, Mary Armwood, told her about Maryland's last documented lynching victim: ...