ANNAPOLIS – Federal and state fishery scientists charged with assessing the Chesapeake Bay blue crab population soon will release a definitive report eagerly anticipated by watermen, legislators and conservationists

TOWSON, Md

ANNAPOLIS – More than six months after the start of the Maryland Vehicle Emission Inspection Program (VEIP), long lines at inspection stations, software glitches and worker training issues are still surfacing, and lawmakers are hearing from angry constituents

ANNAPOLIS – An appellate court Wednesday cut 30 years off the 60-year prison sentence of Stephen Bruce Leak, the co- defendant in last year’s James Kowalski child sex abuse and pornography trial

OAKLAND, Md

ANNAPOLIS – Now that the cameras and lights have faded out on the O

COLLEGE PARK – Marjorie Webber, with 3-year-old Rachel strapped behind her, coasted her bicycle into the dappled sunlight of Calvert Road Park, hair whipping in the wind

ANNAPOLIS – Ten days after she was hospitalized with schizophrenia at Cumberland’s Finan Center in 1993, Arlena Beeman was medicated against her will

ANNAPOLIS – In a unanimous vote, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals Tuesday upheld the murder conviction of a man who claimed that the victim’s dying words pointed to his innocence

ANNAPOLIS – If you didn’t look up in the air about 170 feet, you probably wouldn’t even notice