In her three years as mayor, Catherine Pugh was on a mission to burnish the image of her adoptive hometown, a city battered by rioting, a soaring murder rate, and a history of corruption at City Hall ...

In her inaugural remarks Tuesday as speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, Democrat Joseline Peña-Melnyk singled out mentors she referred to as “so many sisters from other misters.” Among them ...

After weeks of mounting pressure, Mayor Catherine Pugh of Baltimore resigned Thursday amid a widening scandal involving hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of children’s books that she wrote and ...

CNN — On Thursday, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned just a few weeks after news broke of a no-bid book deal -- via a state agency -- for a book she had self-published. Pugh, in the wake of the ...

What began with questions about bulk sales of an obscure children’s book series erupted Thursday into a full-blown political scandal in Baltimore, where federal agents raided City Hall and two houses ...