WASHINGTON – Seven months after the fact, Montgomery College registrar’s associate Naheda Kaibni is still astonished when she tells the story of the phone call from her cousin in Ramallah

WASHINGTON – Diane Drake of the Community College of Baltimore County does not usually have to tell prospective students where Baltimore County is — or what a community college is, for that matter

WASHINGTON – When Jessica Bishop goes to the Cumberland library to get on the Internet, the computer is looking out for her

WASHINGTON – John Taube believes education and parental involvement are the best ways to prevent children from seeing obscene material on the Internet

WASHINGTON – Nine-year-old Connor Watkins of Forest Hill had never seen a live turkey or a live president in the flesh before, but that didn’t stop him from walking up and touching both the man and the bird Tuesday at the White House

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WASHINGTON – A member of the Maryland congressional delegation is positioned to become the second-most powerful Democrat in the House, in a post- election shakeup of the Democratic leadership

WASHINGTON – Charles County voters can mark “Crawford” three times on their ballots Tuesday and still have their votes counted legally

WASHINGTON – Maryland is already doing many of the things that will be required under a national election reform law signed Tuesday by President Bush, state election officials said

BOWIE – In between bites of pulled pork and baked beans, a middle-aged woman looked up from the picnic table at a recent political rally to see the familiar Republican faces of Eisenhower, Hoover and Taylor staring down at her from a man’s tie