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Thirty-five-year-old Cory McCray checked his list of registered Democratic voters before climbing each set of porch steps and knocking on each door in a Northeast Baltimore neighborhood on a recent afternoon. “I’m Cory McCray, your state delegate,” he told a resident who answered her door. “I’m in a very contentious race, so when you go…

  Since the first 9-1-1 call was made 50 years ago, not much has changed about how Maryland’s 9-1-1 system functions. As a result, there are times when 9-1-1 doesn’t work. That’s what happened to Carl Henn on July 25, 2010. The 48-year-old was having a picnic with some friends at a park near his…

Female inmates at the state prison in Jessup, Maryland — the state’s only women’s prison — say getting feminine hygiene products, like pads and tampons, while they’re incarcerated can be challenging, sometimes even impossible. “On the first of the month, when they’re supposed to get the supplies, they will go through and in every cell…

  Maryland residents are expected to save nearly $3 billion on their federal income taxes in 2018 as a result of the new federal tax law, according to a report state Comptroller Peter Franchot released Thursday. But residents will likely lose at least $400 million in state and local income taxes, unless lawmakers act to…

  The opening day of the General Assembly session is always filled with platitudes about bipartisanship and displays of camaraderie. Along these lines, Gov. Larry Hogan urged cooperation in his opening remarks to legislators on Wednesday, the first day of the 2018 legislative session. “Over the next 90 days, our goal is going to be…

    Thirty-seven-year-old Tara Herbert entered a classroom at the Little Flowers Early Childhood and Development Center in West Baltimore, where she’s a teacher. Five one-year-olds sat around a small table while a movie played nearby. Another teacher was spoon feeding one of the toddlers. “Yeah, they all sleepy. It’s almost their lunch time,” Herbert…

Odell Jones describes himself as a “working addict.” For decades, he maintained a career in social work and politics, as well as a family — four children and a wife — while using and selling heroin. ”An individual would not know that I was a drug user, or a drug dealer, for that matter, unless…

  This is Del. Sandy Rosenberg’s 35th year representing northwest Baltimore in the House of Delegates, and it’s the third time in those 35 years that the first night of Passover, when Jewish families traditionally gather for the ritual Seder, has fallen on Sine Die, the last night of the Maryland General Assembly session. The…

  Seventeen-year-old Julia Francis was playing pinball with her older brother A.J. Francis at Crabtowne USA in Glen Burnie. “I’m just trying to prove myself better than this guy,” said Julia, a junior at nearby Old Mill High School. “Never happens,” her brother, a defensive lineman for the Washington Redskins, said from one pinball machine…