CHELTENHAM — They may have done something wrong, but the boys in the Cheltenham and Hickey juvenile detention facilities are still boys, and their parents worry every day that they could be hurt by the violence that’s plagued the state’s juvenile justice system

CHELTENHAM — The scene at Cheltenham Youth Facility is peaceful on this bright April morning

ANNAPOLIS – Mass e-mail factories will get their comeuppance but assault weapons owners were unscathed by the Maryland General Assembly this session

ANNAPOLIS – Black Americans have been aware of problems with the death penalty for years, the sponsor of a Senate bill to study the sanction’s disparities told a House committee Wednesday, and it’s time something is done about those problems

ANNAPOLIS – A Senate committee killed a bill Friday to ban assault weapons, effectively ending the measure’s chances for passage this year

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland House of Delegates voted unanimously Wednesday to curtail spam by criminalizing the sending of mass unsolicited e-mail

ANNAPOLIS – Homosexuals and transgendered people would receive the same legal protections against hate crimes as other minority groups under a bill passed by the House of Delegates Sunday 99-41

ANNAPOLIS – Matthew and Dominic Geckle were just defending the family cement business in Owings Mill when they fatally shot an intruder in March 2001, the third night in a row that someone had broken in

ANNAPOLIS – The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Monday unanimously approved a bill to curb cock- and dogfighting Monday, a measure similar to one that already passed the House of Delegates

ANNAPOLIS – The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Thursday rejected, 7-4, a Senate bill to clarify an exemption for clergy’s reporting of child abuse