Notable new releases include the latest novels by Elizabeth Strout and Louis Bayard, a biography of Audre Lorde, and an account of a hostage crisis in London.

Two bidders, a local non-profit and an out-of-state realty firm, submitted bids of more than $750,000 for the former West ...

The all-white, six-member Calvert County school board’s policy removal is the latest in what some see as right wing actions ...