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 ...

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 ...

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.

States have a plethora of official symbols. From state flowers and animals to more region-specific concepts, states have gone to great lengths to oficialize the symbols that best represent their ...

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, a kind of ...

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 ...

Chromite, too, has a Maryland origin story. The heavy, dark-colored mineral was first discovered in the United States by geologist Isaac Tyson Jr., who found the rocks in Baltimore County in 1808.

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, My ...

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 ...

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.

Hereford High School senior Vita Shats had seen it weekly. The Confederate flag on T-shirts. The swastikas in bathrooms. She’d seen a fellow student with a Confederate flag on his belt, flaun… ...