The fate of a petition to remove what organizers describe as racist symbols from the Maryland State House and the University of Maryland football stadium seemed uncertain Wednesday as Gov. Larry ...

Other Maryland state symbols have to do with color. The state gem is the Patuxent River Stone — found only in Maryland — sporting red and yellow colors that reflect the Maryland flag. Calicos, the ...

Marylanders soon may be toasting those state symbols with a new one — Maryland Rye, the proposed state spirit. While there are attempts most years to make something a state symbol, many do not pass.

A bill in the Maryland state Legislature is aiming to ban the display of symbols of hate in public schools effective July 1. The law, filed as HB0418, would institute a statewide order disallowing ...

Click through the gallery to learn about some of America’s strangest state symbols, as listed on State Symbols USA. StarsInsider. Delightfully weird state symbols from across America.

Official State Symbols. February 13, 2008. Lawmakers in Annapolis are considering making Smith Island cake Maryland's official dessert. Other official symbols include: State bird Baltimore oriole.

Under one of the laws, Maryland gained two new state symbols. SB764 added Chromite as the new state mineral and Orange Crush as the new state cocktail. Here's a look at some of the other new laws ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — This has been a summer of social change across the country. Symbols of the Confederacy from statues to flags have been taken down. Several articles online claim Maryland’s ...

In its final vote of the night, the Senate gave final approval to a measure to name both chromite and the orange crush as official symbols of Maryland following a last-minute amendment to the bill.

Maryland’s oft-debated state song, a relic of the Confederacy that calls Union supporters “Northern scum,” is one signature away from being repealed. The state’s House of Delegates voted ...

Maryland legislators that introduced the bill say they are looking to states like Kentucky where the Bourbon Trail has helped boost tourism. They hope to do something similar with rye whiskey.