Michael E. Busch is the Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates. The Anne Arundel County Democrat was elected to the post in January. First elected to public office in 1986, Busch is a Baltimore City native who has served on the Judiciary ...

They piled into the black chartered bus in Baltimore on a sunny Wednesday morning -- weary at the hour, yet eager and excited. There were 38 of them. They came with canes, walkers. One carried a portable oxygen tank. They moved slowly but ...

The last person facing charges in the theft of $48 million from the District's tax coffers is expected to plead guilty today, ending the investigative phase of the largest public corruption scandal in the city's history. Jayrece Turnbull, 34, the ...

BALTIMORE (AP) _ Baltimore police say officers found the body of a newborn in a trash bin behind a church after a woman who checked herself into a hospital told doctors she had given birth to a stillborn boy. The 22-year-old woman went to Union ...

Boat show time! We all know what it brings for the townies, but even if Annapolis is full of people, traffic and mayhem, roll with it. It really is a matter of attitude and strategy. I'll be the first to tell you that I have no sea legs whatsoever ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — John McCain dismissively called rival Barack Obama ‘‘that one,’’ Obama mocked McCain’s ‘‘Straight Talk Express,’’ and both left the debate stage to return to the campaign trail Wednesday. Playing off the ...

TORONTO - The victim of Toronto's most recent murder led a double life that may have resulted in his death, police said Wednesday. Det. Sgt. Dan Sheppard of the Toronto police homicide squad said the possible criminal dealings of 47-year-old Chi Ngu ...

Taylor Branch will speak out against gambling. (By Nikki Kahn -- The Washington Post) T aylor Branch , a Pulitzer Prize -winning biographer of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and an acclaimed chronicler of the civil rights movement, will headline a ...

Opponents of slot machines in Maryland decried the wording of a ballot question to legalize expanded gambling yesterday, saying it was crafted to garner more votes. Maryland Secretary of State John P. McDonough drafted the question that will be on ...