Maryland

TOWSON – Doctors who turned out for a seminar on how to stay within the bounds of health care fraud laws instead buffeted a federal prosecutor this week with complaints that ever-changing regulations have put them “under siege

WASHINGTON – President Clinton’s fiscal 2000 budget does not include funding for a program to eradicate nutria, beaver-sized rodents that are destroying “some of the most important wetlands in this country

ANNAPOLIS Convicted DWI offenders soon could be wearing their own sort of “scarlet letter” to mark their misdeeds, if a Maryland legislator has his way

ANNAPOLIS Kaiser Permanente is denying allegations that it plans to set up a private emergency system in Maryland that would compete with the state’s own 9-1-1 service, but Maryland lawmakers have their doubts about the company’s assurances

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WASHINGTON – The number of beds in assisted-living facilities in Maryland will double in the next 10 to 15 years as the state’s population ages, Maryland officials told the Senate Subcommittee on Aging Wednesday

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s working poor face one of the lightest income tax burdens in the nation, according to a report scheduled to be released Thursday

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ANNAPOLIS Environmentalists and proponents of air pollution control are facing off against petroleum industry representatives over proposed legislation to reduce sulfur in gasoline in Maryland

ANNAPOLIS A bill to broaden police powers to seize guns from domestic abusers came under fire in the General Assembly last week