ANNAPOLIS – The University of Maryland’s two high-profile coaches — who guided the football and men’s basketball programs to unprecedented success — are making nearly triple the earnings of the top-paid state employee

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ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s Department of Agriculture is expected to issue an order today restricting the movement of poultry trucks coming into the state to prevent the spread of avian flu, a bird disease that contaminated more than four dozen flocks in Virginia

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s environment was not lost among this session’s fiscal and education concerns — several key proposals, including legislation protecting sensitive lands expected to become law, won General Assembly approval by Monday’s deadline

ANNAPOLIS – A House panel Friday overwhelmingly approved an environmental proposal extending protection for Maryland’s coastal bays, after days of sorting through an inch-thick book of amendments

ANNAPOLIS – The Senate approved a vastly pared-down version of a Sunday deer hunt bill Thursday, amending it to ban the hunts in all but a handful of counties

ANNAPOLIS – Comptroller William Donald Schaefer added his opinion Wednesday to the increasingly clamorous debate over the Inter-county Connector, saying the state should move forward with an environmental impact study aborted by Gov

ANNAPOLIS – This year’s oyster season is expected to be the second lowest in Maryland history, Department of Natural Resources officials said Friday

ANNAPOLIS – In a move to sidestep the Department of Natural Resources’ authority, the Eastern Shore delegation successfully tacked on an amendment to a bill easing a controversial size limit on male hard crabs

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers Wednesday continued attempts to fine- tune the state’s bioterrorism laws in the wake of last year’s terrorist attacks