Once grown almost solely by enslaved people, the fish pepper was nearly lost forever until a chance find in a freezer revived the plant and it's now more popular than ever.

Gov. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced a $27 million initiative to provide the public with devices, ensuring everyone has internet access.

After 300 years, Maryland experts find the historic site of St. Mary’s fort. Archaeologists have located the lost palisade that guarded the state’s first European settlement in 1634.

Maryland will become the first state in the nation to implement a ban on foam takeout containers. The law, which was passed in 2019, prohibits restaurants and other institutions that serve food, such as schools, from using polystyrene containers. Some restaurant owners still oppose the ban, arguing that foam containers are cheaper and last longer.

The Maryland General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday night to a bill that would make Maryland the first state in the country to ban polystyrene foam food containers and cups. The House of Delegates voted 100-37 to approve the legislation sponsored by Del. Brooke Lierman, a Baltimore Democrat. It was Lierman’s third attempt to pass the bill.

Federal authorities in Maryland have charged three men with running a $364 million Ponzi scheme for more than five years. Kevin Merrill, Jay Ledford, and Cameron Jezierski were arrested Tuesday and charged with using 30 companies and more than 55 bank accounts to bilk hundreds of investors. "The defendants lured investors through an elaborate web of lies, duping them into paying millions of dollars into this Ponzi scheme," said U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur of the District of Maryland in announcing the 14-count indictment, which was unsealed Wednesday.

Two Civil War words tend to bring everyone’s blood to the boiling point: George McClellan.

Annapolis, Md. (AP) -- A Maryland appeals court has upheld a ruling granting a new trial to a man whose conviction in the murder of his high school sweetheart became the subject of the popular podcast

In postindustrial Baltimore, low-income residents are treated as expendable — and public services are slashed accordingly. By Lester Spence.

The FBI is looking into whether the fatal stabbing of a black student by a white student at the University of Maryland was a hate crime. Sean Christopher Urbanski, 22, was arrested on murder charges in the death of Richard Collins III in the early hours of Saturday, according to police. Mr Collins, 23, was visiting friends at the College Park campus when he was stabbed in the chest with a knife.

Rape and sexual assault charges have been dropped against two teenagers accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in a bathroom of a high school in Rockville, Maryland, prosecutors say. The reported crime horrified local parents and became national news after the White House called it an example of why President Donald Trump is cracking down on illegal immigration.

The Green Party candidate for Maryland's open Senate seat took the stage at a televised debate on Wednesday and demanded to be included as police escorted her out of the room. By John Fritze.

Looking east across Maryland’s Pleasant Valley on Sept. 11, 1862, Polly Yarrow could see men in Confederate gray coming through Brownsville and Crampton’s Gaps in South Mountain and just a few miles from the 10,000 Union troops garrisoned in and around Harpers Ferry.

When Isaac Trimble left Baltimore in May 1861 to accept a commission as a Confederate officer, he probably figured he would return to a hero’s welcome.

“The injuries of slavery and its aftermath are palpable across these villages and farm communities, and the region’s relationship with Tubman’s legacy, and that of the Underground Railroad is, to the outsider, surprisingly fraught.” By Katie Ryder. (July 14, 2016)

The Maryland Senate voted Thursday to strip pro-Confederate lyrics from the state's song, "Maryland, My Maryland".

White Flint Mall, once the jewel of Rockville Pike, is history. A gleaming town center is rising on its ashes. But just across the Pike, the oldest bar in Montgomery County [Maryland] is still rocking. By Eddie Dean.

In 1987, my father went missing. Twenty years later, I tried to do something about it. By Kate Crane.

In 2008 a street race disaster became one of the deadliest crashes in the Washington area in a quarter-century. Is living with the carnage punishment enough? By Michael Graff. (June 4)