Black Military Pioneer Dies At 85
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African-American to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, has died, the Academy said. He w...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African-American to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, has died, the Academy said. He w...
Posted 05.23.2012
Annapolis Naval Academy freshmen make a human wall to climb the Herndon Monument which is covered with lard in Annapolis, Maryland. Each year ...
AP | Posted 05.23.2012
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Students who are closing out their first year at the U.S. Naval Academy have completed the traditional climb up the Herndon Monument...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 03.23.2012
WASHINGTON -- This weekend, choose from an unexpected range of festivals: Maryland Day celebrations, National Cherry Blossom Festival events and, yes,...
AP | Posted 01.30.2012
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Thousands of people clad in bathing trunks, bikinis and even some woolly winter hats have taken the Polar Bear Plunge into the Chesa...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.23.2011
WASHINGTON -- A Maryland state delegate, best known for sponsoring marriage-equality legislation to later vote against it, was charged with theft on F...
The Baltimore Sun | Posted 11.17.2011
Imagine driving into Annapolis along Rowe Boulevard or sailing into the city's harbor, glancing up toward the tiered State House dome, and seeing that...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.01.2011
NEW YORK -- The Washington Post will soon close all the paper’s regional bureaus except for those in Annapolis and Virginia, in a move its managemen...
The Huffington Post | Jane Ellis | Posted 03.07.2012
Family vacations in Maryland can be rewarding experiences or absolute disasters — it all depends on pre-trip homework. To make planning easier, we'v...
Susan Fogwell | Posted 06.05.2011
Annapolis is America's sailing capital. During the summer and autumn, midshipmen, locals and tourists congregate at the bustling city dock where people-watching is a popular pastime.
AP | By TOM LoBIANCO | Posted 05.25.2011
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- A bill to legalize gay marriage in Maryland fell short Friday after supporters failed to find enough votes to overcome Republican op...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
DENVER — Sexual assault reports at the three U.S. military academies rose 64 percent in the 2009-10 academic year, but many more victims probabl...
PhillyPhanatics.com | Posted 05.25.2011
I am a liberal Democrat who is opposed to the War in Afghanistan, was against the War in Iraq, and protested against the Vietnam War years ago. I guess you could call me a pacifist. But I love watching the Army-Navy game.
AP | BRIAN WITTE | Posted 05.25.2011
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A married pair of top officials in a Maryland county is accused of tampering with evidence after FBI agents said they recorded ...
Judd Legum | Posted 05.25.2011
As a Democrat, I believe our party has a lot of good ideas that could help the people I'm meeting. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't be a Democrat.
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is of the policy caliber, and demonstrates a rare management excellence over a large and effective state bureaucracy that makes him a very credible candidate for the US presidency.
Washington Post | Joseph Rocha | Posted 05.25.2011
I was 18 years old when I landed in the kingdom of Bahrain, off the coast of Saudi Arabia, in the winter of 2005. It was the first time I'd ever left ...
MSNBC | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama just congratulated the son of his 2008 Republican rival, John Sidney McCain IV, as the younger McCain today became the fourth McCain t...
Inter Press Service | Helena Cobban | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON, Apr 3 (IPS) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was sworn in Tuesday - just one day later his foreign minister, Avi...
Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011
New foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday that Israel was not bound by commitments it made at a U.S.-sponsored conference to pursue cre...
William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011
Barack Obama has never worn the uniform. Yet he has more rapport with the experience of the American veteran than the Republicans who are now in the process of relinquishing power to him and his allies.
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011
The problem isn't that we know too little about John McCain; it's that we've got so many versions of the guy to choose from.
Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain has unleashed a number of diversionary tactics, including his good-looking VP running mate. These diversions are designed to confuse and mislead the enemy.
Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011
Watching the Republican convention tonight, I was struck by a number of things, most notably how the prime-time star speakers whipped up the audience ...
Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011
John McCain sold his soul in the bleakest of hopes that he could convert angry Hillary voters to his cause.
AP | Posted 05.24.2012