Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore and Magna Entertainment Corp.’s other horse racing assets in Maryland are off the auction block, at least for now.

Doctors at the University of Maryland medical school say the man known as the “Father of the U.S. Navy” died of chronic inflammation of the kidneys two centuries ago.

Amtrak has halted all train service between Baltimore and Washington because of a major water main break in Maryland.

Airport officials say 117 passengers were briefly detained on an AirTran Airways plane that flew to a Maryland airport from Mexico because two people on board were sick.

More than 1,000 people were defrauded out of about $70 million by a group advertising the dream of homeownership in what turned out to be a nightmare Ponzi scheme, federal and Maryland officials said Monday.

The Oakland Raiders have taken Darrius Heyward-Bey of Maryland with the seventh pick of the NFL draft, passing up more heralded accomplished receivers to take the fastest of them all.

A Manhattan tax lawyer bought a knife after beating and asphyxiating his wife and two daughters in a Maryland hotel room, police said Friday. He later was found dead with self-inflicted cuts in the room, near their bodies.

Authorities say a Manhattan lawyer who beat and asphyxiated his wife and two daughters in a Maryland hotel room bought a knife from a store after the killings.

Scores of mourners in cars formed a solemn procession from a hilltop church to a cemetery after the funeral of five family members slain in a murder-suicide last week in western Maryland.

The Federal Aviation Administration says a single-engine plane strayed into restricted air space near the U.S. Capitol, and has now landed at an airport in Maryland.