Walter M Baker

Former state Sen. Walter M. Baker, who had served in the legislature representing the upper Eastern Shore for more than two decades and also had been a Cecil County attorney, died Tuesday of complications from diabetes at Christiana Hospital in Delaware....

Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. won the governorship of Maryland yesterday, prying open the iron grip Democrats have held on the post since Spiro T. Agnew left office and reversing a 36-year losing streak for Republican gubernatorial candidates. Ehrlich, who ran a...

He shuffles into his seat near the back of the House of Delegates chamber, a quiet, eccentric man, occasionally rising to explain a bill in his gravelly, barely comprehensible voice. Low-profile, he may appear, but Del. Joseph F. Vallario Jr., chairman...

Even as House Speaker Casper R. Taylor Jr. awaits the final vote count in his tight Western Maryland delegate race, the leading contenders to replace him as the House of Delegates' leader are angling to secure the post. Dels. Michael E. Busch, an Anne...

Despite spirited races in Western Maryland and on the Eastern Shore, all eight Maryland congressmen and one U.S. senator won spots on the November ballot in yesterday's Super Tuesday primary election. In the 6th District Republican primary, Rep. Roscoe...

++++++++++++++++++++ ||   Legislative scorecard ++++++++++++++++++++ || ++++++++++++++++++++ || Score-keeping is one of the great political pastimes in Annapolis. Here are some of the session's winners and losers: The winners Parris N....