FBI Posts Roy McGrath Shooting File With 36 Flash Drives Logged and 14 Pages Withheld
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The FBI has posted records from its investigation into the 2023 shooting death of Roy...
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Wes Moore Isn’t Running Against Dan Cox. He’s Running for Something Bigger.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Dan Cox raised $126,292 over the last two months. Wes Moore raised $1.45 million, then...
Rutledge Wants a Statewide Bureau of Investigation, and Points to Baltimore’s Inspector General Fight
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Jim Rutledge, the Republican nominee for Maryland attorney general, wants to create a...
OPINION: The Case for the Orange Ballot in Frederick County’s School Board Race
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews This is a commentary piece and reflects the view of its author. The Board of Education race...
Judge Calls Brown’s ICE Subpoena “Fatally Facially Defective” and Tosses His Lawsuit as Rutledge Hits Office’s Priorities
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — A federal judge has thrown out Attorney General Anthony Brown's lawsuit...
Audit Finds Repeat Failures at Attorney General’s Office, From a Stalled Software Deal to Unsupported Leave
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — State auditors say the Office of the Attorney General paid for a case...
Baltimore County Council Votes Itself a 74% Raise Weeks Before the Election
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Baltimore County Council voted Monday night to raise its own pay by nearly 74 percent,...
Maryland Payrolls Fall Again in September, Down 20,100 Jobs in Two Months
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland had an estimated 8,800 fewer payroll jobs in September than in August, and the...
Think Tank Backed by Soros Network Names Eight Maryland Counties for More Immigration
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A Washington think tank that has taken $1.65 million from George Soros's Open Society...
Rutledge Says Maryland’s Attorney General Should Back Police and Stop Suing Washington Over Policy
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Jim Rutledge, the Republican nominee for attorney general, says the office should spend...
One Rockville-Based Filer Accounts for More Than Half of Maryland’s H-1B Approvals
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Trump administration on Thursday suspended eight employers, including Tata Consultancy...
Board Approves $50,000 for Moore’s Lawyers, Down From $550,000, as Rutledge Presses Brown on Priorities
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BEL AIR, Md. — Jim Rutledge, the Republican nominee for Maryland attorney general, used a...
Rutledge Backs Notice and a Hearing for Officers Before They Land on “Do Not Call” Lists
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BEL AIR, Md. — Jim Rutledge, the Republican nominee for Maryland attorney general, said...
The Sphere Bond Bill Goes to $215 Million. So Did the Fight Over Who Builds It.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Prince George's County residents who tuned in expecting a final vote on the Sphere at...
The One Line Item That Can’t Be Cut by Memo
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Two dozen Maryland cabinet agencies got a memo this month telling them to model what it...
Maryland on the Map: What Officials Finally Admitted to the General Assembly
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews In a single House Appropriations Committee briefing on September 16, Maryland officials...
Montgomery County GOP Drops Support for District 7 Nominee Over Mossad, 9/11 and JFK Conspiracy Posts
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Harold Maldonado spent four pages this week telling Montgomery County voters he'd been...
Washington County Said Yes to an ICE Facility. A Federal Judge Keeps Saying No.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews WASHINGTON COUNTY — The Department of Homeland Security paid $102.4 million in cash on...
Baltimore’s Top Internal Affairs Officer Is Now the One Under Investigation
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — For nearly seven years, Brian Nadeau occupied one of the most consequential...
The Council Reinvents Itself: Baltimore County Faces Historic Turnover
By MDBayNews Staff TOWSON, Md. — Baltimore County voters approved a lot more than new district lines when they passed...
Police Say MCPS Declined to Give Them the Name of a Student Accused of Kicking an Autistic 6-Year-Old
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Montgomery County police say a report has been filed stating that a...
Green Party’s Ellis Calls for Statewide Data Center Ban as Moore Signs Executive Order
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — Andy Ellis, the Green Party nominee for governor, called Wednesday for a...
Rutledge Uses Sparrows Point Crash to Press Brown on Juvenile Crime, as a New Youth Charging Law Nears Its Oct. 1 Start
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. — Republican attorney general nominee Jim Rutledge is using a...
Moore Orders Data Center Review and a Public Dashboard, but No Pause and No Repeal Yet
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order Wednesday that sets one review process for large...
Democrats Call Him an Out-of-State ‘Plant.’ His Campaign Says He Was Born in Baltimore County.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Maryland Democratic Party wants voters in northern Baltimore County to see Republican...
Judge Orders Baltimore to Restore Inspector General’s Access, Rejects City’s “Unfettered Access” Defense
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — A Baltimore judge put teeth into her ruling against Mayor Brandon Scott's...
Moore Rolls Out New “AI Principles” as Marylanders Wait on Tax Answers
Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore's office posted a new policy document this week called "AI Principles," a...
Every Seat in Play: Harford County Heads to November With a Full Ballot
By MDBayNews Staff BEL AIR, Md. — Harford County voters will find something unusual on their November ballot: a Democrat...
Maryland’s Own Websites Haven’t Caught Up to Its Bond Rating Shakeup
By Greg Visscher | MDBayNews | Guest Contribution Maryland's official budget website still tells residents the state holds...
Behind the Jobs Numbers: Maryland’s Layoff List Keeps Growing in 2026
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews PepsiCo is walking away from a Cheverly bottling plant that has run for more than 60 years,...
Millions in Fraud, Dozens of Defendants: Maryland’s Reckoning Under the Federal Crackdown
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that a Towson pharmacy company will pay more than...
GOP Delegate Nominee: Maryland’s Watchdogs Keep Getting Blocked by the Governments They’re Supposed to Police
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Two Maryland governments got caught this year restricting the very people whose job is to...
The Council Eliminated a Broad $692 Homeowner Credit. Now It Wants Three Targeted Ones.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ROCKVILLE — Roughly four months after voting to zero out a property tax credit available...
Behind the Records Fight: What Baltimore City Says About Its Own Watchdog
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — Monday's appellate ruling was another procedural win for Inspector General...
Baltimore’s New Public Safety Agency Arrives Amid Fraud Fallout, a Records Fight and a Council Shake-Up
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Mayor Brandon Scott and City Council President Zeke Cohen announced legislation Monday to...
Maryland’s Reparations Commission Is Taking Shape. It’s Also a Different Commission Than Lawmakers Passed.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — A state commission that took years to authorize is finally close to...
Moore Administration Orders Two Dozen Agencies to Model 10% Budget Cuts as Deficit Deepens
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews State agencies across Maryland have been ordered to show how they would absorb cuts they...
Delaney’s Family Account Kept Buying Stock. She Also Voted No on a Trading Crackdown.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Rep. April McClain Delaney has cosponsored a bill that would ban members of Congress, their...
Suspended for Showing Up: The Dundalk Firefighters Punished for Helping After 9/11
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, an old Baltimore County story is making...
Maryland Crews Answered the Call: The First Responders Who Deployed After 9/11
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When the World Trade Center towers fell, and a hijacked jet slammed into the Pentagon on...