Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Electronic chalkboards

ANNAPOLIS – A proposed crackdown on pit-bull ownership in Maryland’s capital is drawing criticism for its attempt to bar young adults from owning the dog and for singling out one breed for the restrictions

WASHINGTON – Maryland has the third-highest household income in the nation but it also has a significant number of people living in poverty, according to reports released Thursday by the Census Bureau

ANNAPOLIS – Less than three weeks after its much ballyhooed unveiling, Maryland’s millennium countdown clock isn’t counting as state officials decide on a new location for the modern- looking time keeper

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland is expected to receive additional federal funds for highway and transit improvements over the next five years thanks to a measure passed by Congress in June, a state highway official told a legislative panel Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS – Former Vice President Dan Quayle this week joined a growing chorus of Republicans calling for President Clinton to resign

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