Maryland

BALTIMORE – Predatory mortgage lending grew from 8 percent to 14 percent of all refinanced mortgages in Maryland between 1998 and 2000 and has spread to every corner of the state, according to a study released Friday

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s share in funding anti-smog efforts in the region would come from the state’s $9 billion Transportation Trust Fund, state officials said Friday

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland campaign finance reformers are hoping attention surrounding the bankrupt Enron corporation and investigations into its ties to the Bush and Clinton administrations will boost efforts to strengthen state contribution laws

ANNAPOLIS – The increased use of genetic testing in criminal cases has prompted politicians, police officers and lawyers to push for laws expanding and safeguarding genetic evidence

ANNAPOLIS – Two weeks ago, some Maryland lawmakers decided they did not need laws to regulate crematories – they had had no complaints from the public

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland District Courts essentially would be open to victims of domestic violence day and night every day under two bills unanimously approved by the Senate Thursday

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has denied a former St

ANNAPOLIS – CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield’s proposed conversion to a for- profit entity faced some of its toughest opposition yet as a flurry of bills aimed at the health insurer were heard by a House panel Thursday

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s system of tracking birth defects “is at the bottom rung of acceptable,” according to a report Wednesday by a nonprofit health advocacy group that ranked the states

LANDOVER – Reina Cruz wishes she could move away from Hunter’s Ridge Apartments in Landover to a real house where her 10-year-old granddaughter could have her own room and to a neighborhood where sirens do not pierce the night