WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning is running for the US Senate in Maryland

Steven Senne/AP Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private best known for leaking the largest batch of classified government documents in US history, filed papers this week to run for the US Senate in Maryland.  She will challenge Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin in his party’s primary later this year.  President Barack Obama commuted Manning’s sentence […]

Maryland is investigating Kushner Companies’ real estate practices

Associated Press/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh is investigating the management practices at apartment complexes owned and operated by Kushner Companies. The company brought hundreds of cases against current and former tenants in local courts. The family company of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, said it has been cooperating with the investigation. The […]

Elon Musk’s Boring Company is digging a 10-mile tunnel in Maryland

Enlarge / A hyperloop test track built outside SpaceX headquarters. (credit: Megan Geuss) On Thursday, Maryland officials gave Elon Musk’s Boring Company permission to dig a 10.1-mile tunnel “beneath the state-owned portion of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, between the Baltimore city line and Maryland 175 in Hanover,” according to the Baltimore Sun. According to Maryland Transportation […]

Police arrest gunman who killed 3 in Maryland and shot 1 in Delaware

Harford County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook Police have apprehended a man suspected of killing three people in a workplace shooting in Maryland and then shooting another person in Delaware two hours later on Wednesday. Authorities said they believe 37-year-old Radee Labeeb Prince was behind a shooting at an office park in Edgewood, Maryland, shortly before 9 a.m. […]

Maryland shooter kills 3 & remains at large as 5 schools placed on lockdown

Published time: 18 Oct, 2017 15:10 Edited time: 18 Oct, 2017 15:36 At least three people have been killed and two others critically injured in Maryland after a shooter opened fire at a business park in Edgewood. The lone shooter remains at large. A number of schools in the area are on “modified lockdown” Harford […]

Maryland removed a statue of a notorious pro-slavery Supreme Court Justice overnight

AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana (Reuters) – Authorities in Maryland on Friday removed a statue of a 19th century Chief Justice who wrote the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision in the latest example of action over memorials that have sparked protests across the United States. Crews in state capital Annapolis hitched straps overnight to the 145-year-old bronze […]

Maryland governor signs ‘No means no’ rape law, victims no longer need to prove resistance

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) signed several bills that intend to make it easier to prosecute rape cases and protect sexual crime victims. On Tuesday, Hogan signed 211 bills into law during a ceremony at the state house, including SB 217, or “Criminal Law – Sexual Offenses – Physical Resistance,” which eliminates the requirement that […]

Maryland lawmakers passed a bill to curb immigration enforcement

AP Photo/Andres Kudacki (Reuters) – Maryland’s House of Delegates on Monday approved legislation to bar police statewide from checking the immigration status of individuals they arrest or keeping them locked up longer than otherwise warranted at the request of federal agents seeking to deport them. The state Senate in Annapolis, which like the lower house […]