Lawmakers Happily Seeing Red After Terrapin Win

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland House of Delegates members voted their quorum call with red lights instead of the usual green and the Senate prayer was more about the morals of basketball than Easter season symbolism as a mild Terp fever struck the General Assembly Tuesday

High Court Refuses to Hear Excessive Force Charge against Maryland Guards

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court’s ruling that Maryland prison guards did not use excessive force when they repeatedly sprayed an inmate with pepper spray, shackled him in his underwear and locked him away in an isolation cell for two days

Judge Says Gay Men Accused of Child Porn Were Not Targeted for Their Sexuality

WASHINGTON – A federal court judge has ruled that a Montgomery County police detective acted reasonably when he arrested two gay Germantown men who had secretly videotaped a teen-age neighbor having sex with their dogs in their basement

Tougher Federal Air Pollution Standards May Pose Problem for Parts of Maryland

WASHINGTON – Maryland will not completely meet new federal air pollution controls set to be implemented as a result of a D

Appeals Court Upholds Death Sentence Imposed for Third Time in 1983 Killings

WASHINGTON – Nearly two decades after the stabbing death of an elderly Baltimore couple, a federal appeals court has reinstated the death sentence of John Booth-El, who has three times been sentenced to death in the 1983 murders

Midwestern Power Plant Pollution Poses Threat to Maryland, Officials Say

WASHINGTON – The authors of a new report on air pollution said Marylanders should be concerned that Midwestern power plants dominate the list of polluters, since breezes from those states carry the harmful emissions to Maryland

Numbers of Irish Americans in Maryland Fell Sharply in Last Decade

WASHINGTON – Everyone’s Irish on St

Wearing o’ the Green is Wearing a Little Thin for Some Irish Americans

WASHINGTON – James O’Toole doesn’t care for the beer-filled bashes that have come to characterize St

Maryland Advocates Welcome House Vote to Allow Some Illegal Immigrants Stay

WASHINGTON – Maryland immigrant advocacy groups Wednesday praised House approval of a bill that would let illegal immigrants buy time to legalize their status, hitting them with a $1,000 fine instead of deporting them

Russian Ban on U.S. Chicken Could Cost Maryland Producers $15 Million

WASHINGTON – Maryland poultry producers stand to lose about $15 million in trade annually if U