Maryland

Snapping Turtle Bill Allows Hook and Line Method of Catching

ANNAPOLIS – When Michael Weir was a boy in the 1930s, he used to drop lines into Baltimore County’s Back River — not for fish, but for snapping turtles

DeWine Tries to Stop Browns Move to Maryland

WASHINGTON – In the latest effort to keep the Browns in Cleveland, Republican Sen

Nonprofits Ask State for Share of Economic Development Effort

ANNAPOLIS – Nonprofit organizations don’t want to be left out of state economic development plans

Maryland Republicans Want Bay Program Fully Funded

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s four Republican House members sent a letter this week to House Speaker Newt Gingrich asking him to help preserve funds for a program designed to protect the Chesapeake Bay

Black Doctors Cite Continuing Exclusion from HMOs

ANNAPOLIS – From 1988 through early 1994, Dr

Editors: Adds time element to the lede and drops “three-day conference” to the last graph.

WASHINGTON – Women – long excluded from the leadership of many civil rights organizations – need to play a greater role in the future, a panel of black religious and political leaders said Friday

Glendening Cuts Shortsighted, Critics Say

ANNAPOLIS – Charles Dutton came of age in an East Baltimore housing project, landed in reform school at age 12, and spent nearly a decade in prison on manslaughter and weapon-possession charges

Woman Fails To Get Share of Ex-Husband’s Injury Settlement

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Appeals Wednesday unanimously dismissed a Baltimore woman’s attempt to get a portion of her ex-husband’s personal injury settlement, which he received after losing his leg in a 1984 accident

Federal Employees’ Suit to Be Heard Jan. 29

WASHINGTON – A U