Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – With a more streamlined student transfer process and improved support, community colleges could help provide the state with thousands of teachers to ease a growing shortage, an October report says

WASHINGTON – Bowie resident Linda Tucker was nervous as she crossed the stage to the podium, clutching a white piece of paper

ANNAPOLIS – Stuart Brooks, a Baltimore auto dealer, has had an incredible year, riding the boom in car sales that have made Altimas, Cavaliers and Impalas zoom out of showroom floors

WASHINGTON – Maryland prison and health officials say a looming hepatitis C epidemic will be a bigger, and potentially more expensive, health crisis than HIV and AIDS, but they still do not have a comprehensive policy in place to address it

WASHINGTON – A federal judge granted class status this week to a group of homeless students and parents who sued the Montgomery County school system, claiming it violated a federal law designed to provide homeless students with equal educational opportunities

WASHINGTON – Don DeArmon went to work on Capitol Hill last week, not as a new member of the 108th Congress, but as a congressional staffer — just as he was before Tuesday’s election

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s congressional delegation was shifted to the back bench in Tuesday’s elections, which saw the state sending more Democrats to Washington while the nation was handing control of the House and Senate to the GOP

WASHINGTON – Edward Dudley was vaccinated for smallpox 33 years ago, when he was about a year old, but last week he rolled up his sleeve and volunteered to receive the smallpox vaccine for the second time

WASHINGTON – Maryland voters sent six of seven congressional incumbents back to Washington by wide margins Tuesday, a testament to the power of incumbency that was repeated across the country

ANNAPOLIS – Senate President Thomas V