Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Health maintenance organizations need to be more accountable for the contracts made with the smaller companies they use to lessen their monetary risks and fulfill their health care responsibilities, the commissioner of the Maryland Insurance Administration said Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS – High school students on in-line skates glided around the Statehouse Tuesday lobbying senators to amend the current bicycle helmet law to include such skates

ANNAPOLIS – With a prosperous national economy and a huge state budget surplus, Gov

ANNAPOLIS – Three of the state’s top elected leaders Friday detailed plans to make Maryland the nation’s pinnacle of electronic commerce, and from motor vehicle registration lines to business startups, Marylanders could be in for a big change

WASHINGTON – The Army said formally Friday that it will dispose of a group of Forest Glen buildings, raising fears among neighbors that a piece of Maryland history could be destroyed

ANNAPOLIS – A bill expanding authority to sentence criminals to home confinement was rushed through a state Senate committee Thursday over the objections of a committee member and the public defender’s office

WASHINGTON – The 38 employees of Delmar will get Martin Luther King Day off this year, the first time the holiday will be observed in the small town that straddles the Maryland-Delaware line

ANNAPOLIS – If Delegate James Hubbard, D-Prince George’s, gets his way, a stone will join the Baltimore oriole and the black-eyed Susan as a symbol of The Free State

ANNAPOLIS – A bill to make animal abuse a felony was introduced by Delegate Joan Stern, D-Montgomery, to heighten awareness about the link between animal abuse and potential violent criminals

WASHINGTON – Doctors say it may be four to six weeks before the end of flu season in Maryland, which health officials say has now reached all parts of the state