Maryland
Couple Resurrecting Timoniac Scaregrounds Attraction
This week, as in Halloween seasons of yore, a sinister, supernatural and mysteriously menacing traveling carnival — run by a character known as the Timoniac
State university rated No. 1 party school by Playboy
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Playboy magazine says the University of Virginia is America's top party school. The magazine's 2012 Top Party Schools list is featured in the...TVA funds school construction
KINGSTON, Tenn. - A rural East Tennessee school system has wrapped up an ambitious school construction program, paid for by TVA after a disastrous coal...Ex-housecleaner busted in $3M bust burglary
PHILADELPHIA - A rare bust of Benjamin Franklin worth $3 million has been recovered almost a month after it was stolen from a suburban Philadelphia...Forty-four senators write Cuban president about Md. man imprisoned
WASHINGTON - Forty-four senators have written to Cuba's president to call for the release of a Maryland man imprisoned in Cuba for almost three years. The...
Horse That Won 1983 Preakness Dies
DARLINGTON, Md. (AP) - Horse-racing fans are mourning the death of Deputed Testamony, winner of the 1983 Preakness Stakes. The Baltimore Sun reports that the 32-year-old...2 Carroll County Wineries Join Wine Festival
WESTMINSTER, Md. - A wine festival in Maryland will include two new wineries from Carroll County. The Carroll County Times reports the two wineries joining The...
Lady Gaga's Meat Dress to Be Shown in DC Museum
WASHINGTON - Lady Gaga's famous meat dress has made its way to Washington, along with Loretta Lynn's song about "The Pill" and other relics from...
Former UVA Lacrosse Player Seeks Leniency in Slaying
RICHMOND, Va. - Attorneys for a former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend are asking a judge to reduce a jury's...Man Commits Suicide After Shooting Girlfriend
ABERDEEN, Md. - Authorities say an Aberdeen man fatally shot himself after shooting and injuring his live-in girlfriend. The Harford County Sheriff's Office says the 48-year-old...
Student Pleads Guilty in Vermont Car Accident
NORTHFIELD, Vt. - A former student from Vermont's Norwich University who police say was driving drunk when he crashed, killing a fellow student, has pleaded...Reward Offered For Info in Charles County Killings
La PLATA, Md. - The Charles County Sheriff's Office says rewards of up to $6,000 are being offered for information about a slaying in La...
Evidence Dispute in Germantown Murder Case
There is an evidence dispute in the case against the man accused of killing his estranged wife and her 11-year-old son. Curtis Lopez is charged with...
Peter Lizon Denies Enslaving, Torturing Pregnant Wife
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - While her husband returned a rototiller to a West Virginia rental shop, a limping woman sneaked into another part of the...
Police Shoot And Kill Man at Olney
OLNEY, Md. - Police shot and killed a man after a confrontation at an Olney restaurant.It happened at the Urban Barbecue on Olney Sandy Spring...
Fire at Montgomery County Barber Shop Is Bizarre
Police are investigating a suspicious fire at a Montgomery County barber shop.The fire happened at the Ebony Barbers shop on the 900 block of Bonifant...
Man Uses Sling Shot to Fire Marbles at Speed Camera
Police arrested a man they say tried to damage a speed camera van by shooting it with glass marbles fired from a sling shot.The incident...
Laurel Marine Killed in Afghanistan Remembered as Patriot
"Pops, when I come home, Natty Bohs and crabs?" Lance Cpl. Eugene C. "Gene" Mills III asked his father, Gene Mills II, during an impromptu...4 Suspended, Demoted Bel Air Firefighters Lose Appeals
Four Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company firefighters, who were suspended and/or demoted for their improper Facebook posts, have lost appeals of the disciplinary actions, Chief...
Waverly Family Sues for $55M in Hopkins Malpractice Case
A Waverly couple who sued Johns Hopkins Hospital for malpractice last year after their son was born at the hospital with severe physical and mental...Report Identifies $2.4B in Necessary School Upgrades
Baltimore city school officials released Tuesday the results of an exhaustive assessment of more than 150 school buildings, where roughly $2.4 billion in infrastructure needs...