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