Maryland

ANNAPOLIS Maryland patients could be given the right to sue their managed care organizations for the first time under legislation backed by more than a dozen legislators

ANNAPOLIS Marina owners and managers have a chance to avoid more state regulation

ANNAPOLIS- A bill to give Holocaust victims a one-time tax break on money received from settlements with Swiss and German banks passed the Senate unanimously Thursday, while two similar bills were given a favorable hearing in the House

ANNAPOLIS Seventeen years ago it began with her grandmother

WASHINGTON – A Justice Department official told a meeting of lieutenant governors Wednesday they should look to two Maryland crime prevention programs as innovators in the national fight against prison overcrowding

ANNAPOLIS Consumers may have a way out of paying increasing taxes on tobacco products the Internet

WASHINGTON – Some Maryland lawmakers want to turn cockfighters and others who violate animal cruelty laws into felons

A federal appeals court has ordered a Maryland man to pay his ex-wife an additional $35,961 from his pension plan, rejecting his argument that federal tax law prohibits him from doing so

ANNAPOLIS – Lawmakers considered several proposals to fight sexual crime Tuesday, including posting the names of sexual predators on the Internet, protecting community associations that announce when offenders move into the neighborhood and preventing police from making rape victims take lie detector tests

ANNAPOLIS – Syphilis and gonorrhea aren’t the only sexually transmitted diseases Marylanders need to worry about