A real estate developer pleaded guilty Friday to a mortgage fraud scheme that involved buying houses in some of Southern California's most ritzy neighborhoods and selling them to fake buyers at inflated prices.

Harford County is seeking federal funding to study pooling its water resources with its three municipalities, County Executive David Craig said Thursday.

A nationwide conservation organization says Maryland has six of the nation's largest trees of their species.

Message from the governor

W ith student violence escalating in Baltimore public schools, adults seem stumped as to how to end this horror. Examiner photographer Arianne Starnes was assaulted by a male student when on assignment at Reginald F. Lewis High School in Baltimore. This was the same school where teacher Jolita Berry was brutally attacked by a female student last month. That incident created a national furor because it revealed the ugly mob mentality of the onlooking students, one of whom captured the incident on a cell phone and posted the video online.

Three Harford County teens have been arrested and charged with an arson, and investigators were looking into whether the youths could be connected to 40 other fires in the past six months.

Four busloads of prospective Harford County residents made the two-hour trek from New Jersey this weekend to tour the best of what the county has to offer.

When area high school students pile into stretch limousines for a stylish ride to the prom this spring, the last thing on their minds will be the status of their driver’s for-hire license.

Howard County schools not collapsing

Usually prim and proper, former Westminster High School Principal Sherri-Le Bream took five showers to get back to form following an after-prom party where she volunteered to become a human sundae.