Maryland

USM Regents Approve Campuses’ Strategic Goals

ROCKVILLE – The University System of Maryland Board of Regents Friday approved strategic goals set by individual campuses to both improve education and keep down consumer costs

Holiday Hazards,530

Deck the halls with boughs of holly — but don’t hang the them by the fireplace or where children might confuse the poison red berries with candy

Vietnam Vets’ Children with Spina Bifida Eligible for Benefits

WASHINGTON – When Wayne Miller served in the U

Grandparents Assume Day Care Roles as Child Care Costs Increase

Every day for about three hours, Sally Wilson forgets she is a grandmother and slips back into her teaching routine while watching as many as six children

Baltimore/Washington Area Has More Than 400 Drug Organizations

WASHINGTON – Authorities have identified more than 400 drug organizations operating in the Washington/Baltimore region, ranging from technologically advanced cartels to street-level youth gangs

Stouffer Murder Conviction Overturned on Appeal

ANNAPOLIS – Edward C

`Heritage River’ Plan for Potomac Worries Some

WASHINGTON – Plans to nominate the Potomac River as one of 10 “American Heritage Rivers” has some landowners along the waterway worried about federal intrusion into private property affairs

Supreme Court Lets Stand Death Sentence In ’95 PG Double Murder

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the death sentence appeal of a Capitol Heights man in the 1995 murders of an elderly Prince George’s County couple

New ADR Commission May Reduce Courts’ Caseload, Focus on Future

ANNAPOLIS – Officials say the Maryland Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission now in its infancy may be the key to dealing with the ever-increasing caseload in the state’s courts