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Maryland’s heroin and opioid crisis reaches an all-time high 12/15/2016 10:55pm • Hannah Lang, Correspondent ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Barbara Allen signs her emails with the names of her family members she has lost to addiction. Jim’s mom, Bill’s sister, Amanda’s aunt. Her son, Jim, died from a heroin and alcohol overdose in 2003 after battling substance abuse disorder f Some Md. lawmakers concerned about LGBT rights under Trump 12/13/2016 12:52pm • Robbie Greenspan, correspondent ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Del. Maggie McIntosh, D-Baltimore, said she is concerned about LGBT residents in Maryland after the election of Republican candidate Donald Trump. “I am not worried about an erosion of legal rights, I am worried about an erosion of tolerance Prosecutors seek no chance of parole for Md. man who 'butchered' next-door neighbors 12/13/2016 12:26am • WASHINGTON — It took almost three pages of a sentencing memorandum for Montgomery County prosecutors to describe the dozens of bloody wounds suffered by Richard and Julianne Vilardo in their Rockville home, the night they were murdered by next-door neighbor Scott Tomaszewski. Tuesday afternoon, Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary Is Time To Pardon Gen. Short and Adm. Kimmel 12/04/2016 07:00pm • Soon to be 75 years ago, the deadliest military attack to ever take place on United States soil occurred, and two men were blamed for it. There was plenty enough blame to go around for the failure, but two men were considered the culprits who failed to keep America safe: Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, comm The 10 Places With the Lowest Burglary Rates in the U.S. 11/20/2016 07:00pm • The U.S. News Best Places Data Drill Down, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that sheds light on multiple data points to help readers make the most informed decision when choosing where to live in the United States. Visit our 2016 Best Places to Live ranking to see which of the Montgomery Co. police chief calls for stop to hate crimes 11/17/2016 06:16pm • WASHINGTON — Montgomery County, Maryland, is seeing an increase in hate-based crimes, and the county’s top cop is calling for them to stop. “Each one of these cases represents a victim and community that has been harmed,” Tom Manger, Montgomery County police chief, said in a video posted Donald Trump's Call for Change Answered 11/08/2016 07:00pm • A long, unsettling contest has ended in yet more upset. The next daunting challenge is charting a course of national reconciliation. For all their parsing of policy, it was the personal message of Donald Trump, a candidate never before elected to public office who bulldozed his own party's candidate Death Penalty, Gun Control Win Big in Ballot Measures 11/08/2016 07:00pm • Criminal justice reforms had a mixed night Tuesday. Voters chose to speed up the death penalty process in California, reinstate capital punishment in Nebraska and restart stalled executions Oklahoma -- but also approved measures to reduce incarceration. Voters approved strengthening gun control in t Joe Arpaio, David Clarke and Why the U.S. Still Elect Sheriffs 11/03/2016 08:00pm • Counties across the country will elect their top law enforcement officers on Tuesday. It's a unique system: While communities in the U.S. and in virtually every nation appoint their police chiefs, experts say, most American communities with a sheriff elect someone to hold the position. In fact, som Conviction for Giving Ex-Wife Middle Finger Overturned in Pennsylvania 11/02/2016 08:00pm • A Pennsylvania appeals court has overturned the disorderly conduct conviction of a man who gave his ex-wife the middle finger. The gesture was not obscene, which would allow it to be criminalized consistent with the First Amendment, a three-judge panel found. Jason Waugaman allegedly made the gestu Choose the Right International Law Program 10/26/2016 08:00pm • Charting a path toward becoming an international lawyer can be difficult without strong mentoring, experts say. Marissa Brodney, a second-year student at Harvard Law School with an interest in international law, says students like her need to attend a law school that has a full roster of potential c Community Living Options for People With Serious Mental Illness 10/25/2016 08:00pm • Finding your footing after release from a psychiatric unit, rehab facility or even prison because of mental illness and related fallout isn't easy. Rejoining family, locating treatment, connecting to the community and reentering the workforce can be high hurdles. Too often, people with fragile menta Vincent Price: 'Master of Horror' on film, but great dad off screen 10/25/2016 01:46am • WASHINGTON — While iconoclastic directors like Tim Burton and John Waters grew up imagining Vincent Price was their friend, Victoria Price called him "dad." And as it turns out, the man who so convincingly played sorcerers, rakes, monsters, homicidal maniacs — even death itself — was In Brazil, Online Activists Fight Violence Against Women 10/19/2016 08:00pm • RIO DE JANEIRO -- Sometimes, when Alexsandra Moreira went to visit her parents in northeastern Brazil, the family noticed she had bruises on her arms and legs. But there was always an explanation -- and never one tied to her husband, Marcos de Macedo. "We thought their marriage was good," Moreira's Can Barack Obama Help Hillary Clinton Win the Black Vote? 10/03/2016 08:00pm • He's not on the ballot, something he's repeatedly noted, since winning re-election in 2012. Yet President Barack Obama is pushing one of his key constituencies -- African-American voters -- to the polls for Hillary Clinton, who can't win without their overwhelming support. "If you don't vote, that'