WASHINGTON – During Labor Day weekend 2005, 11-year-old Michael Emmet, of Boyds, was swimming by his family’s parked motorboat in Western Maryland’s Deep Creek Lake when an inexperienced tourist driver reversed his rented motorboat 15 to 20 feet, catching the boy’s foot in an outboard propeller, shredding nerves, tendons and skin

WASHINGTON – Boating season is just getting started, but already Ocean City is dead center on the radar of Maryland state boating police

WASHINGTON – Maryland students benefit significantly more than most students nationwide from No Child Left Behind tutoring programs, a state school administrator testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday

WASHINGTON – Two Maryland soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan died last week

WASHINGTON – When Sgt

WASHINGTON – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Mechanicsville, told Prince George’s County community leaders Wednesday that he had spent part of his spring break in Sudan to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur

WASHINGTON – The Maryland National Guard has been ordered to send 1,300 troops to Iraq, more than double the number of soldiers it typically has in harm’s way

WASHINGTON – When President Franklin D

WASHINGTON – Close to $450 million in military construction funds needed by Maryland this year for 2005 Base Realignment and Closure changes are on the line in a Senate vote expected early next week

WASHINGTON – A Baltimore firefighter told a House subcommittee Thursday that the alternative minimum tax, a measure aimed at the wealthy, is actually crippling middle-class Americans by sticking them with a higher tax bill