WASHINGTON – Few Maryland inmates are prepared to re-enter society when they are released from prison, a problem that affects not only the individuals but the already disadvantaged neighborhoods where they often end up, a recent study said

WASHINGTON – The Coast Guard has proposed new maritime traffic restrictions for the waters of Maryland and New York, aimed at preventing acts of terrorism in the wake of Sept

WASHINGTON – Same-sex partners made up 1 percent of the couples, married and unmarried, who were living together in Maryland in 2000, according to a first-ever report to be released today by the Census Bureau

WASHINGTON – Labor Department rules published Thursday say that workers cannot get post-Sept

WASHINGTON – When winter weather closes Maryland’s public schools, it also shuts down the school lunch programs that provide tens of thousands of Maryland’s poorest kids with guaranteed meals

WASHINGTON – Despite the economic downturn and rising unemployment, the average number of Marylanders on welfare fell from 68,221 in fiscal 2001 to 65,565 in fiscal 2002

WASHINGTON – Reports of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia skyrocketed in Eastern Shore counties in 2001, pushing rural counties ahead of many larger jurisdictions and making them second only to Baltimore in sexually transmitted disease rates

WASHINGTON – Maryland law says that prisoners without high school diplomas have to take classes toward their GED — but nothing in the law says the state has to make it easy for them

WASHINGTON – Advocates for the disabled were disappointed this week when a former group home worker was sentenced to probation and community service after leaving five severely retarded adults in a hot van while she went shopping

WASHINGTON – Baltimore had the highest percentage of teen births among the nation’s 50 largest cities in 2000, and the second-highest percentage of both low-birthweight babies and births to unmarried women, according to a new report