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.

Has the state’s obsession with designating official symbols of Maryland finally reached peak absurdity? A bill moving through the legislature would designate an official state tartan ...

The Diamondback Terrapin. Lacrosse. The Blue Crab. Black-eyed Susans. Marylanders soon may be toasting those state symbols with a new one – Maryland Rye, the proposed state spirit. While there are ...

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 ...

Maryland lawmakers are weighing whether to strike the state song from the list of state symbols enshrined in the law due to its pro-Confederacy lyrics. The current state song, “Maryland, ...

"We support the board’s decision to revisit the flag policy and fully back the recommendations by its members to restrict the use of flags/symbols to the U.S., Maryland state and county flags ...

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 ...

People displaying these red-and-white symbols of resistance ... Probably because the yellow-and-black "Maryland colors" were popularly identified with a state which, reluctantly or not, remained ...

Lacrosse. The blue crab. Black-eyed Susans. 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 ...

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.