Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Duron Paints and Wall Coverings, headquartered in Beltsville, is weighing expansion sites – in Beltsville, Atlanta or elsewhere

ANNAPOLIS – Third grader Kathleen Gorman says that wearing her red bicycle helmet is like keeping eggs in a carton: There’s less chance to break something if it’s protected

WASHINGTON – Area officials Thursday told a Senate subcommittee chairman they were concerned about his proposal to allow longer, direct flights into Washington National Airport

ANNAPOLIS – Eleven-year-old Kimberly Breeding doesn’t think much of smokers

ANNAPOLIS – A Maryland lawmaker wants to set a legal standard where one does not now exist – in the ethical gray area of assisted suicide

WASHINGTON – If states want to control their own food stamp programs, 49 of them would have to change the way they distribute benefits, under a bill moving through Congress

WASHINGTON – The Indian Head naval facility in Charles County has been recommended to be added to the nation’s burgeoning list of environmental cleanup sites, but a Navy spokeswoman said it poses no danger to the public

ANNAPOLIS – From the poorest to the richest, parents who fail to pay child support are the target of a host of bills in the Maryland General Assembly this year

ANNAPOLIS – Prince George’s County parents and school board members told state lawmakers Monday that County Executive Wayne Curry’s proposed school cuts would be devastating to public education in the county

WASHINGTON – Nearly 250 federal workers rallied and chanted outside the Capitol Tuesday to oppose threatened cutbacks to federal employee pay and retirement benefits