Maryland

Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life.

Rodney Milstreed, 56, of Finksburg, Maryland, “prepared himself for battle” on Jan. 6 by injecting steroids, prosecutors said.

The California professor who testified that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her while they were in high school has written a memoir. Christine Blasey’s Ford’s “One Way Back” is scheduled for publication next March. According to St. Martin’s Press, she will share “riveting new details about the lead-up” to her testimony in 2018; “its overwhelming aftermath,” when she...

A Maryland photographer who has disappeared is believed to be dead, and authorities have charged a Pennsylvania man in his murder.

A Temple Hills woman is trying to salvage what she can after a police pursuit ended with an SUV crashing into her home over the weekend.

A man charged in 2019 with planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a Washington, D.C., area shopping and entertainment complex has pleaded guilty in a separate plot to drive a stolen van into a crowd at a Virginia airport.

For the first time, thousands of Black Americans may be able to trace their roots to enslaved ancestors in the 1800s as part of a groundbreaking DNA study in Frederick County, Maryland.

A person was killed and nine others were injured late Tuesday in the crash.

An unusual request for help with the cows was heard on a police scanner: “Can we check the air and see if anyone has any wrangling or cowboy experience, that can offer some wisdom?”

American swimmer Katie Ledecky’s legacy keeps growing. She won the 800-meter freestyle Saturday at the swimming world championships, establishing two more records with the triumph. The victory by the 26-year-old Ledecky made her the first swimmer ever to win the same event six times at worlds and also marked her 16th individual world title, breaking a tie with Michael Phelps...

Donald Lawson, 41, an experienced sailor, was aboard his 60-foot racing trimaran about 285 nautical miles off the coast of Acapulco, according to his brother, Quentin Lawson Sr.

Four people were hospitalized in Aspen Hill on Saturday morning, after a man stabbed multiple victims before being shot by police.

A military veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol with a loaded pistol, metal-plated body armor and a gas mask has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested recently he might block the FBI from relocating its downtown headquarters to a new facility planned for the suburbs of Washington. It was more than idle thinking about an office renovation. The Republican speaker is elevating a once-fringe conservative proposal to upend the FBI. Conservatives are angry at the FBI in the aftermath of the...

Four decades after a mother was found killed in a wooded area of Charles County, Maryland, authorities say they have arrested the man responsible with the help of advancements in DNA testing technology.

The July Fourth holiday weekend has been marred by mass shootings at a block party in Maryland and at a nightclub in Kansas.

With the number of anti-transgender bills already doubling around the country this year, many families raising transgender kids have very tough decisions to make, like a family that moved to Maryland from Texas.

Three people were killed and three others were shot on Sunday in Annapolis, Maryland, according to Annapolis police.

An eye-catching billboard campaign is getting attention in Baltimore and across the nation. WBAL’s Breana Ross reports.

A billboard in Baltimore has a lot of people talking.