Maryland

WASHINGTON – State and county health officials are finalizing plans this week for the distribution of 160,000 potassium iodide pills to the 80,000 Maryland residents who live within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant

ANNAPOLIS – Soon after the University of Maryland’s men’s basketball team captured the national championship, the ads began rolling out

ANNAPOLIS – A Senate committee killed a bill that would have included made some white males eligible for minority business preference by including them in the definition of socially disadvantaged

ANNAPOLIS – A plan to remove the elected Prince George’s County school board cleared a formidable hurdle Thursday when the county’s House delegation agreed with a Senate plan to replace all nine elected board members with appointees

ANNAPOLIS – The General Assembly has approved a $21

WASHINGTON – Half of the state’s counties are unlikely to meet one or more tougher air pollution standards that the Environmental Protection Agency will soon impose, according to a report released Thursday by a national coalition of environmental groups

ANNAPOLIS – The Senate approved a vastly pared-down version of a Sunday deer hunt bill Thursday, amending it to ban the hunts in all but a handful of counties

ANNAPOLIS – Lawmakers struck a deal Thursday on a sweeping education reform plan that would rewrite state funding formulas to give more money to poorer school districts and could give local school systems an extra $1

WASHINGTON – Only about 1 percent of all estimated cases of housing discrimination were reported in 2001, and of those that were, most claimed bias against blacks, families with children and people with disabilities, according to a report released Wednesday

WASHINGTON – Recent rainfall in Maryland has made fields wet enough for farmers to plant this spring, but whether there will be enough water for anything to grow this summer remains to be seen, officials said Wednesday