15-year-old’s post over social media led to rumors of violence and phone calls to authorities. The teen now faces drug-related charges.
A $68.5 million contract tied to the plan to rebuild parts of the Beltway and I-270 was pulled from consideration before the Maryland Board of Public Works Wednesday over concerns about how the contract was awarded.
Montgomery County’s council is considering a $373,000 special appropriation. It would be restricted to those who can’t afford their own legal help and those who do not have a conviction for “serious” crimes.
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is going back to the drawing board to try to prevent price-gouging by drugmakers.
The installation of the new bikeshare docks — including one that will be added at North Bethesda’s Pike & Rose area — will mean that the county has bikeshare bikes available at nine of the county’s 12 Metro stations.
First responders, school officials and a survivor of the shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007 gathered in Northern Virginia at a conference on prevention and recovery after incidents of violence in schools.
Maryland State Highway Administrator Greg Slater has announced that a major road construction season is underway across the state. Drivers can keep track of road projects in the state using a link provided by the SHA.
A Virginia Tech shooting survivor, who is now the executive director of a nonprofit, finally met the first responder who helped her when she was shot on April 16, 2007.
Another measure provides a way to track sexual-assault-evidence kits, in an effort to bolster prosecutions of assault cases.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said the 90-day session was among the most successful of his four years in office.
Members of Maryland’s black and Latino caucuses objected to the increased jail time based on concerns that the sentences will fall disproportionately on minorities.
Maryland’s Senate voted 32-12 on Friday to increase the penalties for holding a mobile device while driving. A first offense in which the driver goes to court would cost $250.
In a bill signing ceremony in Annapolis, Hogan said state leaders had to step in because Congress failed to act: “This problem should have been solved in Washington, but nothing has been done,”
Maryland lawmakers have passed a bill Wednesday that gives prosecutors the chance to introduce the past actions of serial rapists.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan kicked off the weekly Board of Public Works meeting in Annapolis by vetoing the bill that would take oversight authority, including over school construction and improvements, out of the hands of the board and transfer it to a commission made up of appointees.