State Drops Trial Foster Care Program After Lackluster Results

WASHINGTON – Maryland has dropped a trial program aimed at getting kids out of foster care and into permanent homes with legal guardians who were drawn from the children’s extended families

Welfare Rolls Hit Lowest Level in 40 Years; Advocates, State Split on Meaning

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s welfare enrollment fell to 68,643 in July, the lowest level since 1963, according to the state’s Family Investment Administration

Federal Policy on ‘Terrorist’ Background Checks Gives Non-Profits Pause

WASHINGTON – Federal employees can donate money to any of 2,000 non-profit organizations in the Combined Federal Campaign this fall, but the American Civil Liberties Union won’t be one of them

State Loses Share of $1.1 Billion in Federal Child Health Insurance Funds

WASHINGTON – Maryland lost its shot at $23 million in funding for the state children’s health insurance program Friday when $1

State Waiting List for Child-Care Assistance Reaches 16,000 Families

WASHINGTON – Kimberly Mcmurray thought she was doing the right thing by moving from Southeast Washington to Rockville, where her three kids could get a better education

Unseasonably Cool Summer Felt by Businesses, Farmers, Resorts

WASHINGTON – Lifeguards, power company engineers and beach employees found themselves looking for busy work this summer, thanks to what meteorologists are calling an unseasonably cool and wet season

Maryland Child Health Insurance Enrollment Fell Sharply; Rebound Hoped For

WASHINGTON – Budget tightening pushed more than 23,000 children off the Maryland Children’s Health Insurance Program in the last six months of 2003, a 21 percent drop in enrollment that was among the steepest in the nation

Scores of Maryland Emergency, Relief Workers Pitch In to Help Florida

WASHINGTON – Nearly homeless, hot, and hungry, the thousands of hurricane victims in Brevard County, Fla

Appeals Court Reverses Machinegun Conviction Over Jury Instructions

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has overturned the machinegun conviction of a Baltimore man who argued that jury instructions in his trial allowed jurors to consider evidence not included in his formal charge