“Maryland” on The Daily Caller

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)

The mayor of a small town in the Washington, D.C. suburbs is settling a lawsuit he filed against a Maryland county after his dogs were shot to death during a SWAT team raid at his house. (more)

Perhaps Prince George’s County residents should consider moving to Afghanistan. (more)

Multiple federal agencies are now doing a joint assessment to see if accused Arizona killer Jared Lee Loughner has any possible link to the several fiery packages that were sent to the head of the Homeland Security Department and Maryland state officials last week, The Post has learned. (more)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Two packages sent to state government buildings 20 miles apart released smoke and odors when they were opened Thursday, but no one was seriously injured, officials said. (more)

The founding of the website EcuRed — Cuba’s newest propaganda tool — reaffirms one long-standing principle of comparative international politics. Communists suck at naming things. (more)

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — A Baltimore area man has more than just insurance claims to worry about after a car crashed into his home. (more)

Elephant tails, dried hedgehogs and chicken blood probably weren’t on the top of your packing list the last time you traveled. (more)