CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) Statues depicting Don Pedro, a famed Spanish ram imported by E.I. DuPont, will once again grace the entrance to a former DuPont estate. A pair of Don Pedro statues were stolen in September from the entrance to the estate, which is now home to the University of Maryland Center...

By Mana Rabiee

Maryland's Montgomery County Executive Ike Legget held the first of five public forums to let constituents have their say on how to prioritize $600 million dollars in proposed spending.

It's Monday night and Alex Espinosa -- who helps coordinate the county's budget -- m...

By Kavitha Cardoza

Glenn Ivey, the state's attorney in Prince George's County, says he's decided not to challenge incumbent Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) for her seat in Maryland's 4th District.

Ivey says he's decided against challenging Edwards.

"I began the effort on the campaign...

WASHINGTON (AP) Metro is holding a three-day workshop focused on safety. The workshop opened yesterday and is part of an effort to enhance safety procedures for employees. It comes a month after a train apparently going at full speed almost hit a team of safety inspectors.

WASHINGTON (AP) T...

By Patrick Madden

The district's same-sex marriage bill is now on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers will have 30 working days to review the measure.

To block the marriage bill, President Obama, and both houses of the Democrat-controlled Congress, would have to agree on a disapproval resolution....

By Kavitha Cardoza

Glenn Ivey, the state's attorney in Prince George's County, says he's decided not to challenge incumbent Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) for her seat in Maryland's 4th District.

Ivey says he's decided against challenging Edwards.

"I began the effort on the campaign...

WASHINGTON (AP) Metro is holding a three-day workshop focused on safety. The workshop opened yesterday and is part of an effort to enhance safety procedures for employees. It comes a month after a train apparently going at full speed almost hit a team of safety inspectors.

WASHINGTON (AP) T...

By Patrick Madden

The district's same-sex marriage bill is now on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers will have 30 working days to review the measure.

To block the marriage bill, President Obama, and both houses of the Democrat-controlled Congress, would have to agree on a disapproval resolution....

By Kavitha Cardoza

Glenn Ivey, the state's attorney in Prince George's County, says he's decided not to challenge incumbent Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) for her seat in Maryland's 4th District.

Ivey says he's decided against challenging Edwards.

"I began the effort on the campaign...

WASHINGTON (AP) Metro is holding a three-day workshop focused on safety. The workshop opened yesterday and is part of an effort to enhance safety procedures for employees. It comes a month after a train apparently going at full speed almost hit a team of safety inspectors.

WASHINGTON (AP) T...

(January 13) LIONS IN CHEVY CHASE The Avalon Theater in Chevy Chase, DC presents the latest in its Lions of Czech Film series. The movie, Guard No. 47, will be shown tomorrow night at 8. In this 2008 film, a railway guard reunites with his wife after World War I only to find the battlefields of...

Astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson has been named Earth Sky Science Communicator of the Year for 2009.

Dr. Tyson is the Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and has hosted PBS's educational television show NOVA Scienc...

The business community gives its two cents on the economy, Congress, and the pace of reform in today's Power Breakfast from Manuel Quinones.

By Matt Bush

A group of lawmakers in Maryland is again pushing for an increase to the state's alcohol tax. The bill, sponsored by delegate Bill Bronrott of Bethesda, would raise the tax 10 cents for every drink served in the state.

The tax is currently 2 cents for wine and spirits, an...

WAYNESBORO, Va. (AP) More than 2,500 animals received treatment at the Wildlife Center of Virginia last year, including 40 bald eagles. The center said Tuesday that its 2009 caseload of injured, sick and orphaned wildlife was the highest since 2004. The number of bald eagles admitted was a single...

The University of Virginia's new president says she has some big shoes to fill.

Teresa Sullivan is UVA's first new president in two decades. She succeeds John Casteen, who not only has kept the university near the top of the collegiate-ranking charts, but has kept the school afloat in tough...

By Kavitha Cardoza

More than 2,500 animals received treatment at the Wildlife Center of Virginia last year, including 40 bald eagles. The center's 2009 caseload of injured, sick and orphaned wildlife was the highest since 2004.

Patients included a gray tree frog, seven black bear cubs...

By Mana Rabiee

Maryland's Montgomery County Executive Ike Legget held the first of five public forums to let constituents have their say on how to prioritize $600 million dollars in proposed spending.

It's Monday night and Alex Espinosa -- who helps coordinate the county's budget -- m...

By Matt Bush

A group of lawmakers in Maryland is again pushing for an increase to the state's alcohol tax. The bill, sponsored by delegate Bill Bronrott of Bethesda, would raise the tax 10 cents for every drink served in the state.

The tax is currently 2 cents for wine and spirits, an...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) Hundreds of people are gathering to pay their last respects to Jean Finnegan Biden at the funeral for Vice President Joe Biden's mother.

Mrs. Biden, 92, died Friday after a brief illness. She had suffered a broken hip in a fall in March 2009.

A crowd of about 700...