Maryland

Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been posthumously awarded the rank of general. Tubman was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war. Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Maryland’s Dorcester County for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the state’s National...

Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been posthumously awarded the rank of general.

People throughout the D.C. area and across the country reported receiving racist spam text messages the day after the election that told them to report to plantations to pick cotton.

Celebrity chef Tobias Dorzon was shot then apparently robbed in Hyattsville, Maryland, shocking surveillance video shows.

Here is a look at candidates marking firsts after the 2024 election.

The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Rep. Andy Harris, suggested that North Carolina’s Republican-controlled state Legislature should consider awarding the state’s electors to Donald Trump before all votes are counted.

The Howard County Health Department said it was working with the Maryland Department of Health to investigate the cause of the outbreak, adding there’s no risk to the community.

A Pennsylvania teen and a North Carolina man were killed while four others were injured in a crash involving two vehicles in Delaware in which one of the drivers may have been under the influence, investigators said. 

Some residents in a Bowie, Maryland, neighborhood think that one neighbor’s decorations went too far and want the disturbing display taken down.

A mother has been charged with attempted murder after police say she shot her 13-year-old daughter in Seat Pleasant, Maryland.

Authorities say a student at a Maryland high school has died after being shot by another student during a dispute in a bathroom at Joppatowne High School. Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler identified the victim in Friday’s shooting as 15-year-old Warren Curtis Grant. They identified the shooter as a 16-year-old fellow student who fled immediately afterward but was caught minutes...

When Marquise Vanzego got his food from the La Plata Chick-Fil-A drive-thru last Friday, he was shocked by the racist name printed on the label. The Charles County man says he the label he received had the word “monkeys” printed instead of his name.

Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the former House Democratic leader, is recovering after experiencing a mild stroke on Sunday. Hoyer’s spokesperson Margaret Mulkerrin says in a statement that Hoyer, who is 85, experienced a “mild ischemic stroke” on Sunday night and sought medical help. Hoyer responded well to treatment and has not had any lasting symptoms from the stroke, according to...

A Southern Maryland Blue Crabs game ended in tragedy on Friday night when a wind gust lifted a bounce house into the air, then crashed it roughly 15 feet into the ground — all while children were inside. A 5-year-old boy died as a result.

“I think maybe there is still a goal for me,” Julio Cervantes Suarez said in an exclusive interview with NBC News.

A group of Baltimore teachers is asking voters to approve a ballot initiative that would give $1,000 to new parents in hopes of reducing childhood poverty starting from birth.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was treated at a hospital for a bruised shoulder after a car accident Sunday morning, according to a statement from his Senate office. He was released from the hospital Sunday afternoon. The statement said that Fetterman and his wife Gisele were involved in a car accident with another driver. They were both evaluated at a local...

A witness saw U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s Chevrolet SUV speed past her prior to the Pennsylvania Democrat rear-ending another driver on a Maryland’s Interstate 70 last weekend, Maryland State Police said.

“Kids can be so cruel,” one Reddit user joked.

Emma Patterson is what could be called a “super” foster mom. She started taking in children in the early 1980s. Over the past four decades, she raised more than 40 foster children.