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Indiana improves to 5-0 for 1st time since 1967 with 42-28 victory over Maryland

Sep. 28, 2024 16:23 PM EDT

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — First-year coach Curt Cignetti promised he would change the Indiana Hoosiers football program. Virtually nobody expected it to happen so quickly. Kurtis Rourke threw for a season-high 359 yards and three touchdowns Saturday, and the Indiana...

Maryland man convicted of shooting and wounding 2 police officers in 2023

Sep. 27, 2024 12:59 PM EDT

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man who shot and wounded two police officers has been convicted of attempted murder, armed carjacking and firearms charges. A Baltimore County Circuit Court jury found David Linthicum, 26, guilty Thursday after a weeklong trial. A...

Richmond Fed president urges caution on interest rate cuts because inflation isn't defeated

Sep. 27, 2024 06:04 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Federal Reserve's Richmond branch says he supports reducing the central bank's key interest rate “somewhat” from its current level but isn't yet ready for the Fed to fully take its foot off the economy's brakes. In an interview Thursday...

Indiana chases another milestone moment when Maryland visits in Big Ten home opener

Sep. 26, 2024 11:34 AM EDT

Maryland (3-1, 0-1 Big Ten) at Indiana (4-0, 1-0), Saturday, 12 p.m. ET (BTN) BetMGM College Football Odds: Indiana by 7. Series record: Indiana leads 7-5. WHAT’S AT STAKE? This has already been a milestone season for the Hoosiers —...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore welcomes King Abdullah II of Jordan to the state Capitol

Sep. 25, 2024 16:11 PM EDT

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore welcomed King Abdullah II of Jordan to the state's Capitol on Wednesday for a roundtable discussion with business and education leaders from around the state. It was the first time a foreign head of state has visited the Maryland State...

Resentencing for Lee Malvo postponed in Maryland after Virginia says he can't attend in person

Sep. 25, 2024 15:22 PM EDT

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A Maryland judge on Wednesday indefinitely postponed a resentencing hearing for convicted sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, after Virginia rejected a request to temporarily let him out of prison to attend a court session in Maryland. Malvo and his partner, John Allen...

Woman sentenced to 18 years for plotting with neo-Nazi leader to attack Baltimore's power grid

Sep. 25, 2024 14:11 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland woman who’s held white supremacist views for decades and recently conspired with a neo-Nazi leader to plan an attack on Baltimore’s power grid was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years in prison for her role in the plot. The high-profile case ultimately...

Maryland sues the owner and manager of the ship that caused the Key Bridge collapse

Sep. 24, 2024 13:25 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — The state of Maryland has added to the legal troubles facing the owner and operator of the container ship Dali, which caused the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the massive vessel experienced an ill-timed electrical blackout and other failures. ...

Alsobrooks presses the case for national abortion rights in critical Maryland Senate race

Sep. 24, 2024 00:14 AM EDT

GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — Angela Alsobrooks sees the erosion of reproductive freedom for women with her 19-year-old daughter in mind. “She’s a sophomore, and she literally has fewer rights in this moment than her grandmother and mother,” Alsobrooks said in an interview with...

Gunman in Colorado supermarket shooting is the latest to fail with insanity defense

Sep. 23, 2024 19:25 PM EDT

A man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket has been found guilty of murder in the 2021 attack, becoming the latest person to fail in an attempt to be acquitted by reason of insanity. Jurors found Ahmad Alissa guilty on Monday. As a result, instead of remaining in a state...