WASHINGTON – Algae blooms and dead zones in America’s waterways — including the Chesapeake Bay — represent a significant health risk for Americans, as well as a threat to the nation’s economy, said Robert Magnien, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Silver Spring-based Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research

COLLEGE PARK -President Obama’s health care rally at the University of Maryland’s Comcast Center Thursday drew thousands of bright-eyed college students who chanted and cheered as they waited in massive lines to enter the venue, while small but vocal groups of protesters gathered outside

COLLEGE PARK – President Obama “fired up” a largely student audience at the University of Maryland Comcast Center Thursday, trying to induce them to support his embattled health care reform plan

COLLEGE PARK – Top Maryland Democrats praised President Obama’s speech Thursday at the University of Maryland, saying his national health care plan would save the state money and boost the economy

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s Board of Public Works got through its Wednesday meeting without making additional cuts to the state’s budget, but the long-term repercussions of the $700 million that have already been cut dominated the meeting’s agenda

WASHINGTON – When President Obama takes the microphone to talk about health care reform at University of Maryland, College Park Thursday, some traditional protesters will skip the event, but that doesn’t mean emotions won’t run high

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland pension system overpaid 45 retired non-faculty employees at the Maryland School for the Deaf by a total of $487,000 over 22 years

WASHINGTON – Experts agree that the benefits outweigh the risks when it comes to the new swine flu vaccines, expected to be available in mid-October

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s Democratic-dominated congressional delegation sang the praises of President Obama’s health care speech Wednesday night, calling it “bold” and “powerful

WASHINGTON – Environmental activists pretended to build tiny wind turbines in the Hart Senate Office Building here Tuesday to call attention to clean energy legislation on the same day senators were set to return from their August recess