WASHINGTON – President Bush urged patience and perseverance with the nation’s top two problems — a lagging economy and prolonged war in Iraq — in his last State of the Union address Monday evening

WASHINGTON – Gov

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s recent decision to dump touch-screen voting machines in favor of a paper ballot system may have been a poor choice, said the lead researcher on a study of voting technology

WASHINGTON – Maryland had the lowest percentage of children younger than 5 living in poverty of any of the United States in 2005, according to new estimates from the Census Bureau