ANNAPOLIS – With legislators haggling for a piece of the state’s $4 billion tobacco settlement, Gov

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s congressional delegation voted 6-2 Thursday night to raise the minimum wage by $1 an hour over two years, after splitting along party lines on an offsetting tax break for businesses

WASHINGTON – Political observers agree that the Maryland Republican Party’s experiment with an open primary had little effect on Tuesday’s election

WASHINGTON – Maryland police had a fiery reaction to a new university study that suggests some homicide cases are going unsolved because officers do not follow basic practices and procedures

WASHINGTON – Verna Day-Jones is a 75-year-old newlywed, great-grandmother, amateur actress and community activist, and she is concerned about her future

WASHINGTON – A $90 million project to deepen the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal was targeted as one of the 25 most wasteful water projects in the nation in a report released Thursday by two nonprofit advocacy groups

WASHINGTON – Mary Muir is 91 years old, but with the help of medications for high blood pressure, arthritis and asthma, she still cooks her meals, does her laundry, goes shopping and cleans her Frostburg home

WASHINGTON – Bruce Ross fought the law and the law yawned

ANNAPOLIS – Despite objections from critics who said it would obstruct political speech, the Maryland House of Delegates approved a ban on roadside soliciting by minors

WASHINGTON – Women on the Lower Shore and in far Western Maryland are more likely to die of heart disease than women in central and urban counties, according to a report released last week