Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – The Family Violence Council, headed by Lt

WASHINGTON – Two Maryland congressmen were elected this week to Democratic leadership positions in the House

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals Friday upheld the first-degree murder conviction of Curtis Aden Jamison in the 1993 strangulation of a 15-year-old Columbia girl

WASHINGTON – During the three months Robert Kampia spent locked in prison, he never bought “extra food or toys” at the commissary, and he did not let himself watch MTV

WASHINGTON – Passage this month of initiatives in California and Arizona legalizing marijuana use for medical purposes has spurred an advocacy group to target Maryland and other states for similar measures

WASHINGTON – The medical community is torn over whether marijuana has medical value, agreeing only that the current body of research is scant

Deer management options available to state officials range from hunting to birth control

Calvert County officials have declared 1997 the Year of the Family because some members of the county’s League of Women Voters thought children in their communities were spending too much time on their own

ELLICOTT CITY, Md

ANNAPOLIS – Gov