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