Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland campaign finance reformers have taken aim at the latest vexing election law: campaign committees that support a slate of candidates and allow virtually unlimited flexibility to transfer funds

ANNAPOLIS – The nationwide nursing shortage has affected hospitals, doctors’ offices and at-home care, but state officials are now worried that in the event of a biological emergency there won’t be enough help

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WASHINGTON – As news of a Montgomery County shooting spree circulated throughout the state Thursday, school systems as far away as Baltimore County took steps to protect their students

WHEATON – Luxury station wagons and sport-utility vehicles lined the street to Glenallan Elementary School on Thursday afternoon, as calm but wary parents came to pick up children less than a half-mile from one of five Montgomery County slayings

WASHINGTON – Two top University of Maryland officials told a House education committee the burden of rising tuition is being offset by increases in financial aid, and that most students still do not pay the full price of tuition

WASHINGTON – Within hours of the shootings that killed five Montgomery County residents, federal agents were contacting local gun shops Thursday urging them to be on the lookout “in the event that anyone comes in to buy ammunition

ANNAPOLIS – The white marlin is not yet an endangered species, but there are so few left that Maryland’s governor is pressing for federal action to save the fish, a favorite of the state’s recreational fishing industry

WHEATON – The first bullet fired in a shooting spree that killed five people in Montgomery County Wednesday and Thursday, narrowly missed Ann Chapman, who was working at Michaels arts and crafts store in Northgate Shopping Center

WASHINGTON – Maryland is doing a better job of preparing its students for college, but the number attending has fallen since 2000 and the state’s higher education is still relatively expensive when compared to other states