Maryland

ANNAPOLIS- Annapolis Mayor Ellen Moyer said the city intends to test a floating island in a local lagoon that, if successful, could help clean water in the Chesapeake Bay

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s unemployment rate rose in October to its highest point since the recession began, but there’s hope for jobs in a report showing seasonal retail positions may surpass 2008’s poor numbers

BETHESDA – Judith Wortman has lived in her house near Bethesda National Naval Medical Center for 37 years

WASHINGTON – Enlisting local police in immigration enforcement could help prevent crimes committed by illegal immigrants, Baltimore’s former Maryland Transportation Authority Police Chief Gary McLhinney, argued in a panel discussion Thursday

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers and supporters of Kent County’s Upper Shore Community Mental Health Center promised on Wednesday to use the upcoming legislative session to fight the facility’s closure by the Board of Public Works

UNION BRIDGE – For most of his life, Jay Mackenzie wanted to own a farm

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Board of Public Works cut an additional $364 million from the fiscal 2010 operating budget Wednesday, pushing the total reductions to $1

BALTIMORE – As Maryland closes in on the construction of a third reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Lusby, an environmental organization has released a report calling nuclear power a step backward in the nation’s race to reduce pollution

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WASHINGTON – The struggle to maintain affordable health care coverage may end a Maryland family’s 14-year “good run” of operating their own businesses