Maryland

ANNAPOLIS — Legislators who want to continue state income tax reductions will have to find other programs to trim since the governor’s 2003 $22 billion budget, released Tuesday, relies on rescinding a 2 percent tax cut to balance the budget

ANNAPOLIS – Rapid residential development along the Chesapeake Bay threatens the 3,600 species that live there, witnesses told the U

WASHINGTON – Baltimore ranks among the country’s 12 “meanest cities” for its treatment of the homeless, according to a report released Tuesday by two national homeless advocacy groups

ANNAPOLIS – Education spending will increase under Gov

ANNAPOLIS – Lottery players could buy up to a year’s worth of Lotto or Big Game tickets on credit under a bill in the Maryland General Assembly that would ease a restriction against credit card use

ANNAPOLIS – Minority members of the Democratic Party and Republicans have accused Gov

ANNAPOLIS – More than 20 teen-agers jammed Montgomery’s House delegation meeting Friday to protest two bills to limit the voting rights of the county’s student member of the board of education, also known as the SMOB

ANNAPOLIS – Some Maryland lawmakers and victim rights advocates want to consolidate now scattered services for crime victims into one Cabinet-level office

WASHINGTON – Time ran out on Jan

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and sentence of a Gaithersburg man who harbored an illegal Brazilian immigrant under slavery-like conditions for almost two decades, and further ordered the man to give her 14 years of back pay