Maryland

White House Vigil Planned to Draw Attention to Farm Animals

WASHINGTON – A candlelight vigil will be held Wednesday outside the White House to draw attention to farm animal suffering

Slain Journalists Recognized in Memorial

ARLINGTON, Va

Controversial Gun-Control Measure, Other Laws Take Effect

ANNAPOLIS – More than 300 new laws — including controversial new restrictions on gun purchases — take effect in Maryland Tuesday

Anne Arundel Woman Sings the Tune of Reform

ANNAPOLIS — With a song in her heart and Ross Perot on her mind, a Pasadena volunteer with the Maryland Reform Party has written two dozen Reform Party hymns sung to familiar melodies

Thousands Expected to Bring Shoes to Protest Gun Violence

WASHINGTON – Matt Fenton IV was on his way to a friend’s Bolton Hill row house on a tree-lined street in Baltimore when two teen-agers asked him for directions

Maryland Senators with Majority of Democrats on Veto Override>

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s senators voted Thursday with the majority of their fellow Democrats to let stand President Clinton’s veto of the partial-birth abortion ban

Southern Maryland Woman Called Hero For Help With Train Wreck

WASHINGTON – Joan Barr says she will never forget the beating fists of the captives she tried unsuccessfully to save from the MARC train that collided head-on with an Amtrak train in February