Maryland

Amish Child Labor Exemption Passes House

WASHINGTON – The House Tuesday passed a bill that would let Amish teen- agers work in sawmill and carpentry jobs, an exception to child labor laws that opponents said could endanger children

Crackdown on Trash Haulers Forces 87 Trucks Off the Road

WASHINGTON – Maryland police and environmental officials took 87 trash trucks off the road this month, 13 percent of the total that they stopped as part of a nine- state crackdown

From Hitler to Elvis, Archives II is a Walk Through History

COLLEGE PARK – President Kennedy’s assassination is here

Kent Official Tells Congress Flexibility Is Good For Schools

WASHINGTON – Kent County Public Schools Superintendent Lorraine A

Millions of Documents Lure Academics, Amateurs to Archives II

COLLEGE PARK – It is 8:30 on a recent Tuesday evening — a half-hour before closing — and the bleary-eyed stragglers are filtering out of the National Archives II building after a full day’s work

Congress’ Odd Couple, Bartlett and Markey, Join Forces on Bill

WASHINGTON – The political ideologies of Reps

Traffic Death Rate is Twice as High in State’s Rural Areas

WASHINGTON – Rural residents in Maryland are more than twice as likely to be killed in a car accident as the state’s urban dwellers, according to an analysis of 1997 fatal crash data

Bills for Newborn Hearing Screening Draw Support

ANNAPOLIS A Senate Finance Committee hearing Friday was packed with supporters of a bill to require all newborns in Maryland hospitals have a hearing test before they are discharged

Hagerstown Businesswoman Joins Opponents of `Death Tax’

WASHINGTON – A Hagerstown businesswoman said Thursday that the federal estate tax “steals a lifetime of work” from small business owners and family farmers

Elephant Protection,615

ANNAPOLIS There was some snickering in the General Assembly when Delegate Rushern L