Thomas Francis Meagher, an Irish rebel convicted of sedition by the British, escaped from an Australian penal colony in 1849, but never carried out his plans to return to his homeland and rid it of the British

WASHINGTON – Eighth-graders in Maryland public schools scored below the national average in a science test last year, the Education Department said Tuesday

WASHINGTON – A Capitol Heights trash hauling company violated fair labor standards in efforts to stop truckers from unionizing, a federal appeals court ruled

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court let stand a Maryland court ruling that bans police officers from detaining passengers in traffic stops

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s senators were on the losing side of a drive Tuesday to change the way federal candidates raise money

WASHINGTON – The Senate on Tuesday rejected a plan to allow some Washington elementary and secondary school students to attend school in suburban Maryland and Virginia at government expense

WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives late Thursday night dedicated $3 million to fighting the microorganism killing fish in some Eastern Shore rivers

WASHINGTON – Marylanders spend less of their income on public education than most other Americans, according to a Census Bureau report released today

WASHINGTON – When President Clinton in his State of the Union address called for national educational standards, Maryland Gov