Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – A bill allowing mothers to legally abandon their newborns with any responsible person passed the Maryland House of Delegates Tuesday, ending – at least for a while – debate over the state’s safe haven laws

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s system of dealing with children’s issues is failing those it purports to protect, said the sponsor of several reform bills at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS – Comptroller reports show Maryland income tax revenues are down $71

ANNAPOLIS – Plenty of low-income, hard-working folks won’t survive if Maryland imposes a blue crab size limit that’s different from Virginia, watermen and crab pickers told a Senate panel Tuesday

WASHINGTON – Twenty years in the Army — even patrolling the demilitarized zone in South Korea — didn’t quite prepare Arthur Moore for fourth and fifth graders

WASHINGTON – Maryland lawmakers and steelworkers gave a lukewarm reception to President Bush’s Tuesday announcement that he would impose up to a 30 percent tariff on some imported steel

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a Maryland woman’s claim that Northrop Grumman did not consider her for three job promotions because of her gender

COLLEGE PARK – The University of Maryland’s Cole Field House ends a nearly 50-year run when the last men’s basketball game is played there Sunday, with games moving to the new state-of-the-art Comcast Center this fall

ANNAPOLIS – A new commemorative license plate would provide a tax-free revenue stream for scholarships to terror victims without making a tight budget year worse, says the bill’s sponsor

WASHINGTON – When Neil Moore cooks, he adds hemp to his pancakes, his salads — just about everything