Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Fort Detrick’s “Anthrax Tower” was at the center of the biological weapons program during the 1950s and 1960s, producing weapons-grade anthrax for bombs, aerosols and other delivery systems

WASHINGTON – Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley said the city’s response to a Wednesday anthrax threat was a good test of preparedness that exposed some weaknesses but overall showed the city’s plan to be sound

ANNAPOLIS – A recently convicted Michigan man took advantage of his state’s loose gun show laws, exporting arms and ammunition bought at state gun shows to a terrorist group in Lebanon

ANNAPOLIS – The University of Maryland at College Park decided last week to forgo an informal agreement to make its campus more environmentally friendly, frustrating advocates of the Anacostia watershed

WASHINGTON – Faced with the prospect of up to 8,000 new teachers for each of the next few years, the state Department of Education has said it will support the development of the first statewide curriculum ever

SILVER SPRING – Maryland lawmakers joined the head of the Environmental Protection Agency at a suburban Washington water utility Thursday to reassure people that their drinking water is safe from a biological attack

ANNAPOLIS – Andrew Goldstein’s brother lives in Boca Raton, Fla

ANNAPOLIS – Presidents from the University System of Maryland agreed Wednesday that for the state to stay at the forefront of the national biotechnology industry there must be a greater collaboration among the schools

WASHINGTON – The mood in Maryland congressional offices was described as cautious but not panicked Wednesday, as House and Senate office buildings were ordered closed because at least 30 people tested positive for anthrax exposure

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland is freezing new hires, trimming agency budgets by 1