ANNAPOLIS – Reform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan is focusing on grassroots campaigning as a way to gather Maryland supporters, after being left out of the national presidential debates this election season
Maryland Education Department Predicts Record Teacher Shortage
ANNAPOLIS – Maryland is expected to be short a record 10,351 teachers – 1,600 more than this year – at the start of school next year, according to a report released Tuesday by the State Department of Education
School Television Access Falls in Technology Gap
ANNAPOLIS – At the beginning of each school year, Donna M
State Steps Up Efforts After Finding Two Birds with West Nile Virus
WASHINGTON – Maryland officials said Thursday that two crows infected with the West Nile virus were discovered in Baltimore and Howard counties last week, the first two cases of the virus confirmed in the state this year
Some Human Fatalities Linked to Firestones Turn Out to be Pets
WASHINGTON – Media outlets across the country are reporting this week that 103 fatalities have been linked to faulty Firestone tires
Maryland Students May Soon See Assessment Test Scores on Transcripts, Grasmick Says
ANNAPOLIS – Results from high school assessment tests should be recorded on students’ official transcripts in the two years before those exams become a graduation requirement, Nancy Grasmick, state superintendent of schools said Tuesday to a joint legislative subcommittee
Anne Arundel Man’s Death Sentence Upheld
ANNAPOLIS – In its second review of the case, Maryland’s highest court Thursday upheld the death sentence of an Anne Arundel County man for the 1993 double-murder of his fiancee and her friend at his fiancee’s home in Severn
Appeals Court Vindicates Elections Official on Nepotism Charge
ANNAPOLIS – A Howard County elections official was cleared by the State Court of Appeals Wednesday of nepotism charges brought by the State Ethics Commission
Governor’s Phone Records Are Public, High Court Rules
ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s highest court Tuesday rejected Gov
Statewide Inspection Finds, Fixes, Brake Problems on Six School Buses
A statewide inspection of 590 school buses with potentially defective braking systems uncovered six buses with faulty wiring this week, but all were immediately fixed and are back on the road