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Here’s some good news for Marylanders: We’re rich! Well, not all of us. Certainly not the blogger currently disseminating this information. But a lot of us are rich. Very rich. So rich that, get this: Maryland, for the first time, now has more millionaires per total households than any other state in the country.

A pilot watched his injured, 78-year-old mother die in the rough waters of the Chesapeake Bay as they both tried to swim to safety after his single-engine airplane crashed and sank more than a mile off the shore of Smith Island, Maryland State Police said Monday....

Two University of Maryland students were burned Monday afternoon after an explosion sparked a small fire in a chemistry lab, authorities said.

An 18-year-old Bowie State University student was fatally stabbed Thursday night by her roommate during a fight in a campus dormitory, Maryland State Police said early Friday.

Maryland state Sen. Paul Pinsky (D-Prince George’s) made good Friday on plans to be arrested in front of the White House where he was among an estimated 166 people locked up as part of a demonstration of civil disobedience against a planned oil pipeline.

The Maryland boy is accused of helping Colleen LaRose plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist. When he allegedly exchanged emails with Colleen LaRose, the woman known as Jihad Jane, the young man was 15 and a good student who spent a lot of time at his computer in a quaint bedroom community outside Baltimore.

Police say a mother holding a 20-month-old baby jumped out of a car while it was being driven by a carjacker on the Capital Beltway in Maryland.

A Baltimore County jury has ordered Exxon Mobil to pay more than $1.5 billion in damages involving an underground gasoline leak at a rural Maryland gasoline station.

Rory McIlroy enjoyed a triumphant march Sunday to his first major title as a two-under-par 69 gave him a eight-shot victory in the U.S. Open at Congressional Country Club in Maryland.

Many hotels and condo complexes in Ocean City, Md., are giving away gas cards of up to $50.