Buchanan Out of Debates, But Down With Grassroots

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