WASHINGTON- EDee Merriken says she is not familiar with much of Maryland beyond the Eastern Shore

WASHINGTON – By time they come to Adine Oney for help paying their heating bills, people have often already exhausted all their resources and appealed to all their friends

WASHINGTON – Between an uncertain economy, an already harsh winter and a possible cut in federal funding, officials at the Maryland Energy Assistance Program have their work cut out for them this year

WASHINGTON – On what is typically one of the biggest shopping days of the year, a number of Maryland activists will be on the streets and at the malls urging shoppers to opt out

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the appeal of a Maryland man on death row for the 1988 murder of an elderly woman in her Woodlawn apartment

WASHINGTON – A federal judge granted class status this week to a group of homeless students and parents who sued the Montgomery County school system, claiming it violated a federal law designed to provide homeless students with equal educational opportunities

WASHINGTON- A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that an off-duty Prince George’s County police officer can stand trial for fatally shooting a man outside a West Lanham dance in 1997

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court refused to reopen the case of a man whom Prince George’s County Police left handcuffed to a pole in a dark, empty parking lot, saying the officers could not have known their actions violated his constitutional rights

WASHINGTON – What kind of Boy Scout would take on a career politician who has a reputation for balancing his progressive politics with bipartisan consensus building?

Eagle Scout Scott Conwell thinks he is that man

WASHINGTON – The fear and violence spawned by the sniper has become an everyday nightmare for most Washington-area residents – but for children whose families came to this country fleeing violence in their native countries it is a recurring nightmare