Maryland

Lawmaker Says `Tattered’ Teachers Don’t Make the Grade

ANNAPOLIS – Some teachers need to class up their acts, lawmakers and students told the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday

Rural Lawmakers’ Pfiesteria Plan Spreads Chicken Manure Around

ANNAPOLIS – Rural lawmakers Thursday unveiled their own plan to fight pfiesteria, including an “aggressive” proposal to ship as much as 180,000 tons of chicken manure off the lower Eastern Shore

Lawmakers Assured Coppin Mistakes Won’t Happen Again

ANNAPOLIS – University officials assured lawmakers Thursday that there will be “no questions” about future contracting procedures like those that swirled around Coppin State College and former Sen

Panel Seeks Hefty Raise for Governor, Other Top Officials

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s governor already makes the third- highest salary in the nation, but a state commission said he is overdue for a raise that would make him the highest paid

Jailed Dad Can’t be Made to Pay Child Support, Court Rules

ANNAPOLIS – The Court of Special Appeals on Wednesday ordered a new hearing for a father who was billed for five years of child support that accrued while he was in prison

Court Upholds Mandatory 25-Year Sentence for Career Burglar

ANNAPOLIS – A Maryland appeals court Wednesday upheld the mandatory 25-year jail term for a burglar who was sentenced just one day before lawmakers moved to relax the “three strikes, you’re out” law that put him behind bars

State’s Share of Tobacco Settlement Shrinking

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland could wind up with $386

Lawmakers Aim to Make Harassment by E-Mail a Felony

ANNAPOLIS – For more than two decades it has been a crime in Maryland to harass someone over the telephone

Bill Targets `Social Promotion’ of Unprepared Students

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland schools need strict standards for passing students up a grade instead of using promotions “as a means of getting them out of the way,” a lawmaker argued Tuesday

Couple Fights Murderer for Custody of His Kids

ANNAPOLIS – Charles Hicks stabbed his wife, Nancy Klotz, 34 times while their 2-year-old son watched in their South Baltimore home in 1996