Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Seven years ago, a fire left Sahlah Lawson and her family homeless after their landlord deliberately set the place on fire to collect insurance payments

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s urban roadways are in bad shape and in dire need of repair, according to separate studies done by two transportation groups

BETHESDA – The Bethesda Cares homeless outreach center where Larry Sutton spends his afternoons is cluttered and virtually claustrophobic, and that’s probably the way he would describe his life

WASHINGTON – Miriam Harris can’t help but remember the time her mom spent with her, and she wishes she could spend the same amount of time with her kids

WASHINGTON – Five bounty hunters beat, pepper-sprayed and spit out racial slurs at Chinelle Moore inside her Laurel home, then drew a gun on her 5-year- old daughter — before realizing the man they were looking for was not home

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland senators reversed themselves Thursday, approving by one vote a bill to allow nurse practitioners to serve as primary-care providers after nearly killing the bill by two votes the previous day

WASHINGTON – Frog populations are declining as their habitat disappears in Maryland and frogs with deformities have also been found in the state, making it part of a nationwide trend of troubled amphibian populations, researchers said Wednesday

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ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland House of Delegates voted Tuesday to allow charter schools to form anywhere in the state, a move that could tap millions in federal funding for states that pass such legislation

WASHINGTON – The last words Melissa Cullen remembered hearing from her father was “hang on,” as he tried to avoid the gold car that had crossed the center lane and was heading straight for their car