Maryland

WASHINGTON – The number of personal watercraft accidents in Ocean City has fallen significantly since the state enacted stricter safety regulations in 1996, according to a review of six years of Coast Guard recreational boating accident reports

WASHINGTON – When personal watercraft rental businesses open for the season, their stock will include 5,000 quiz books

ANNAPOLIS — The Big Daddy of State House lobbyists, Bruce Bereano’s prowess is so secure he withstood a felony conviction — pushing bills from a pay phone while serving time for mail fraud

ANNAPOLIS – Think “lobbyist,” and money, influence and lots of backslapping are some of the things that come to mind, says Ann Ciekot, one of 695 such folks registered to prowl the halls of Maryland’s General Assembly

ANNAPOLIS – Willie Collier knew he was an outsider the first time he climbed the State House steps

WASHINGTON – Federal money for community policing in Maryland bought video cameras for patrol cars, computers that can instantly e-mail from car to car and software that speeds report writing back at the office

WASHINGTON – Federally guaranteed loans to small businesses in Maryland were more likely to be partially written off than those in the rest of the nation, according to an analysis of five decades of Small Business Administration records

WASHINGTON – Maryland manufacturers released significantly fewer toxic chemicals into the environment in 1999 than they did a decade before, according to the latest statistics available from the Environmental Protection Agency

ANNAPOLIS — Edith C, a frail, elderly resident at Baltimore’s St

BALTIMORE — It’s a Wednesday morning on Good Samaritan Nursing Center’s second floor, and nurse Alicia Merritt is having a hard time fielding questions about Maryland’s nursing shortage