“Maryland” on The Daily Caller

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The next chapter in the Peyton Manning saga could take a decidedly defensive turn. (more)

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and current Maryland state Sen. Anthony Muse is railing against House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer and Maryland Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley for what he calls “endorsement intimidation.” (more)

The Maryland Democratic Party broke its own rules with a series of tweets favoring the re-election of incumbent Ben Cardin in his Senate primary race against state senator Anthony Muse. And comments from the Republican candidate in that race cast that endorsement, and one from President Barack Obama in November, in racial tones since Cardin is white and Muse is black. (more)

An abortion provider from southern New Jersey was arraigned Friday on five counts of murder, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. (more)

Just because former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino used to protect Barack Obama, it doesn’t mean he can count on a job recommendation from the president. (more)

Dan Bongino, a former U.S. Secret Service agent and a Maryland Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, told The Daily Caller that cars belonging to his pregnant wife and three of his staffers were vandalized — and he’s convinced it was a politically motivated attack. (more)

House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland is leading a group of Democrats in opposition to voter-ID laws that require individuals to present photo identification at the polls. (more)

Billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump wants to get into the online gambling business, and his daughter Ivanka Trump, executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization, suggests it would be a revenue generator for governments. (more)

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is threatening to ram through a sweeping new land use plan that imposes an environmentalist agenda on the state’s sprawling rural populations — a move that could spark a tax revolt and mass exodus unless it is rewritten, county officials and state legislators told The Daily Caller on Monday. (more)

Saqib Ali, a former Democratic member of the Maryland state legislature, aims to shut down a planned conference hosted by the Maryland Conservative Action (MDCAN) on Saturday, charging that speakers include “the nation’s leading Islamophobes.” (more)

Tensions are brewing between the Army and some residents of Frederick, Md., after a stinging National Research Council report ordered by the government said that the planned risk-assessment of a new facility at Ft. Detrick isn’t adequate for assessing the risk to the public from potential accidents at the lab where deadly diseases will be studied. (more)

Maryland State Police say a driver has been fatally injured in a crash while fleeing a state trooper in Pasadena. (more)

Democratic Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is working to improve his state’s numbers on poverty, education, crime and employment, but he says Maryland can’t effectively reduce out-of-wedlock births or divorces. (more)

Maryland is the first state in the country to impose a new requirement to graduate from high school — something called environmental literacy. (more)

The HBO movie “Game Change” will be filmed in Maryland this spring, according to Gov. Martin O’Malley’s office. (more)

UPDATE: Brittany Norwood, who at first appeared to be a survivor of Lululemon Athletica’s March 11 killing, is now suspected of murdering her colleague Jayna Murray, whose body was found inside the Bethesda, Md., shop, reports the Associated Press. (more)

Giving undocumented immigrants in-state tuition benefits at Maryland colleges would violate federal law, send the wrong message to law-abiding immigrants and be unfair to taxpayers, state legislators opposed to the measure said Wednesday. (more)

The Maryland General Assembly has scheduled a March 9 public hearing on a bill that would take a far more aggressive approach toward health reform in the state than passed at the federal level last year. (more)

Patients at one of every five Maryland hospitals suffered higher-than-state-average rates of infections, pneumonia and other complications last year, and those medical centers will have to forgo $2.1 million as a penalty, regulators say. (more)

Seven U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen have been expelled for using or possessing “spice,” a drug similar to marijuana that has yet to hit most college campuses, the Washington Post reported Thursday. (more)