Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – A bill to give immunity to desperate mothers who abandon their newborns died when lawmakers couldn’t agree on how to treat firefighter protests before the Maryland General Assembly adjourned for the year Monday

ANNAPOLIS – Prince George’s County lawmakers Tuesday heralded the $573

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ANNAPOLIS – It’s inevitable: West Nile virus will return to Maryland this summer, but the impact on humans should be minimal, state officials say

WASHINGTON – At age 90, Nancy Poore Tufts has earned two masters degrees in music, was an organist and church choir director for almost 70 years, drove an ambulance in Washington in the 1940s and was a founder and longtime director of the Potomac English Hand-bell Ringers group

WASHINGTON – Maryland has the second-highest percentage of women-owned businesses in the nation, according to new Census Bureau data, many of them new, small companies like Pam Young’s Eye of the Needle Embroidery

ANNAPOLIS – The first 100 disabled people are being processed for moves from nursing homes to community-based programs now that funding has come through for a relocation program that began April 1

ANNAPOLIS – A bill to temporarily halt executions in Maryland quietly received a preliminary favorable vote in the Senate after a week of intense and emotional political maneuvering

ANNAPOLIS – Within five to 10 years, scientists believe they will be able to predict who might be at risk for a genetically linked disease

WASHINGTON – Maryland has seen a boom in applications for new or expanded power plants since deregulation, despite predictions that suppliers would shun the state and its low-cost energy prices