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Then-Libertarian vice presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld arrives to cast his vote at the John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Canton, Mass., on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2016. Weld confirmed on Feb. 5, 2019, he has changed his party registration from Libertarian back to Republican as he mulls a primary challenge to President Donald Trump.

Bill Weld, former Mass. governor, to challenge Trump for Republican presidential nomination

August 22, 2019 at 10:31 a.m.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld told an audience in New Hampshire Friday that he will try to take on President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican presidential primary, offering the...

Prosecutors portray Manning as determined leaker

August 21, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

In closing arguments Thursday, Army prosecutors presented a damning portrait of Pfc. Bradley Manning as a soldier who used his top-secret security clearance to scour classified computer networks for documents...

Dr. David S. Helsel was named CEO of Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center.

O’Malley names new Perkins hospital CEO

August 19, 2019 at 1:35 a.m.

State officials tapped a veteran psychiatric hospital administrator Wednesday to take over leadership of Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, where two recent killings have sparked questions about the safety and...

Patient killed at Perkins mental hospital, police say

August 19, 2019 at 1:35 a.m.

State health officials moved Friday to bolster security and reassess patients at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, after the second patient slaying in a week at the state mental facility....

A jubilant finish line for the Grand Prix

August 19, 2019 at 4:35 a.m.

Tens of thousands of spectators trooped through crowded paddocks and grandstands, clutching ear plugs and checkered flags. Auto-racing teams praised the exciting twists and straightaways through roads normally choked with...

Baltimore mayor convicted on 1 count

August 22, 2021 at 9:37 a.m.

Jurors on Tuesday convicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon on a single charge of taking gift cards intended for the city's poor. Although she was acquitted of a felony theft charge,...

Dixon convicted of embezzlement

August 19, 2019 at 1:05 a.m.

Jurors in the theft trial of Sheila Dixon convicted the Baltimore mayor Tuesday on a single charge of taking gift cards intended for the city's poor. Although Dixon was acquitted...

3 children killed at city hotel

August 21, 2019 at 4:16 p.m.

A Montgomery County father engaged in a custody battle brought his three children to an Inner Harbor hotel and apparently killed them yesterday, Baltimore police said. The bodies were discovered...

Richard Wohkittel and his sons Richard Jr., 9, and Brett, 6, traveled from Harford County to try to catch a snakehead at this pond in Crofton. "When I heard about it, I said, 'This sounds crazy. I got to bring down the kids and take a shot at it'" Wohkittel says.

‘Frankenfish’ multiplying in Potomac system

May 30, 2019 at 3:56 p.m.

MOUNT VERNON, Va. // Tina McCrobie yelped. She'd no sooner stuck an electric probe in the water than four snakeheads floated belly-up to the surface of the Dogue Creek. "There...

The ‘Friends’ effect

April 5, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

It may have been the most aptly named sitcom ever. When Friends airs its last original episode tonight at 8, a particularly warm relationship of some 10 years' standing between...

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