Maryland

BALTIMORE Black high school students in Maryland dropped out at a rate twice as high as white students in 1997, and, on average, scored nearly 200 points lower on the national Scholastic Assessment Test, according to a report presented at Wednesday’s Maryland State Board of Education meeting

COLUMBIA – The Maryland State Emergency Board decided Wednesday to seek federal loans for farmers in nine Maryland counties hit by the recent drought

ANNAPOLIS – The U

WASHINGTON – Human ailments associated with long-term exposure to pfiesteria-infested waters seem to disappear within six months, according to new studies by University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University researchers

ANNAPOLIS – The agency that regulates the state’s utility companies says Maryland must broaden its taxing powers for future deregulation to be a success

ANNAPOLIS – For some, deer hunting has taken on new meaning: charity

LAUREL – To Shirley Tumlin, May 15, 1972, is more than the day a gunman shot then-presidential hopeful George Wallace in the parking lot of the Laurel Shopping Center

WASHINGTON – Marylanders are flooding their congressmen with calls and letters demanding that President Clinton be impeached or asking that lawmakers urge him to resign

WASHINGTON – Political analysts are greeting Maryland’s congressional elections this fall with a collective yawn

ANNAPOLIS – George Bush and Dan Quayle are stepping up to the plate to help Republican Ellen Sauerbrey fuel her gubernatorial bid in Maryland