State Often Returns Foster Kids to Homes Where Alleged Sex Abuse Happened

WASHINGTON – Scores of Maryland kids who ended up in foster care after their parents or caregivers were accused of sexual abuse were returned to their homes, some just days after the state deemed their households unsafe

Hundreds of Maryland Families Still Getting Welfare After Five-Year Time Limit

WASHINGTON – More than 700 Maryland families who passed the five-year federal limit for cash assistance this year have continued collecting checks because they face substantial “hardships” in moving from welfare to work

Baltimore Mom Still Faces Hardships After Hitting Five-Year Welfare Limit

BALTIMORE – Ursula Rodriguez lives in a rowhouse on a noisy block in Baltimore’s Waverly neighborhood

Housing Advocates See Increase In Harassment of Women by Landlords, Custodians

WASHINGTON – They didn’t leave their names and they didn’t say where they lived

Shriver Leads 8th District Fund-Raising Race With Twice Morella’s Cache

WASHINGTON – Delegate Mark Kennedy Shriver has raised more than $1

Townsend Trots Out Campaign-Style Speech, Will Announce Run For Governor May 5

WASHINGTON – With the legislative session behind her, Lt

Housing Discrimination in U.S., State Hits Blacks, Families, the Disabled

WASHINGTON – Only about 1 percent of all estimated cases of housing discrimination were reported in 2001, and of those that were, most claimed bias against blacks, families with children and people with disabilities, according to a report released Wednesday

Supreme Court Ruling Unlikely to Change Use of One-Strike Drug Law in Maryland

WASHINGTON – Emma Goff hoped the Supreme Court would see things her way