Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – A bill to ban partial-birth abortions passed the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee easily Friday and was sent to the full Senate, where pro-choice advocates predicted a harsher reception

ANNAPOLIS – The state fund that pays for roads, airports and mass transit services “continues to show strong financial performance” — for now

ANNAPOLIS – When John Thomas decided to keep the 1994 Acura Vigor he had been leasing, the dealer told him he had to pay sales tax — one that Thomas thought he had already paid

ANNAPOLIS – It would be three times as big as Rhode Island, but with less than half the population

ANNAPOLIS – Four years ago Wednesday, Maureen Britell was a 27-year-old pro-life activist and pregnant mother when she learned her next child would be born without a brain

ANNAPOLIS – Both houses of Maryland’s General Assembly have been busy this session telling health insurers how to run their businesses

ANNAPOLIS – The Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit against a doctor who used a Baltimore man’s confidential medical history, without the patient’s knowledge, to defend himself in a malpractice case

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals upheld the conviction Wednesday of a Gaithersburg man who sexually abused his two stepdaughters repeatedly over a period of five years

ANNAPOLIS – A House subcommittee gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a resolution that recommends a 5-cent cut in the state property tax rate

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals said a Prince George’s County man who shot and killed a friend in a 1995 argument cannot claim that he was acting to protect others nearby