Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – “BTW,” “LOL” and “TTYL” are now outlawed from the driver’s seat for Maryland motorists

BETHESDA – President Obama announced Thursday that the National Institutes of Health is halfway through awarding its portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 fund, calling the grants the “single largest boost to biomedical research in history

ANNAPOLIS – Lawyers from the Maryland Attorney General’s office and the NAACP clashed Tuesday over access to Maryland State Police records related to racial profiling before a rare en banc hearing of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals

WASHINGTON – County health officials say they are prepared for the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic despite layoffs and service cuts necessitated by the state budget shortfall, but they remain worried about the effects on other programs

ANNAPOLIS – Flu Information for Marylanders

ANNAPOLIS – If you come down with a nasty cough, a fever over 100 and other flu-like symptoms this fall, do you have the new 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus or the regular, get-it-every-year seasonal flu?

Your doctor might take a culture, but, chances are, you might never know the results

WASHINGTON-Higher paid employees at University System of Maryland schools are required to take more furlough days to lessen the burden on their lower paid counterparts, according to several university furlough plans released this week

WASHINGTON – After the rain, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is clogged with an eclectic combination of garbage — soda bottles and a large purple ball, sticks and dirt, candy wrappers and a hollowed-out television

ANNAPOLIS – Since last spring’s detection of the H1N1 virus, hogs have gotten a bad rap

BEL AIR – For some struggling small businesses, all the Harford County Small Business Development Center has to offer these days, literally, is a box of tissues