Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – A nationwide nursing shortage and decline in nursing school enrollment has Maryland officials concerned that the cost of tuition at some of Maryland’s nursing schools could negatively affect graduation and retention rates

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Office of the Public Defender is so bogged down with cases it would have to hire more than 300 attorneys just to meet the American Bar Association’s minimum standard

WASHINGTON – On what is typically one of the biggest shopping days of the year, a number of Maryland activists will be on the streets and at the malls urging shoppers to opt out

ANNAPOLIS – Every year Muslim student Yousef Hussein looks forward to the feasting, prayer and family time following the month-long holiday of Ramadan

STEVENSVILLE – High-speed cutters, hopping through the waves

WASHINGTON – Maryland food banks said they are having to push for donations this year, at a time of year when giving used to be second nature

WASHINGTON – Bird lovers were hard pressed to find bald eagles in the Chesapeake Bay area in 1977, but since then the national symbol has staged a startling comeback, even nesting beside the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge

ANNAPOLIS – The e-mail message from Gov

WASHINGTON – The drought that ravaged state harvests could also cost Maryland’s poultry industry upwards of $50 million this year as it drives up the cost of chicken feed — the single largest cost of production — as much as 30 percent

WASHINGTON – Connie Morella sat in her Capitol Hill office, trying to part with 16 years’ worth of legislative files, constituent letters and awards