Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s death penalty is set to go on trial today, as a Senate committee is scheduled to hear a bill to suspend executions for two years

WASHINGTON – One in three fatal bicycle accidents in Maryland is linked to alcohol use, according to a Johns Hopkins University study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association

ANNAPOLIS – A growing body of Maryland senators wants to give the General Assembly the power to rearrange spending priorities in the state’s budget, bringing Maryland in line with the other 49 states

ANNAPOLIS – Parents who substitute prayer for medical treatment for their children may be subject to civil and criminal penalties under a bill repealing the religious exemption from child health and safety laws

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s drunken-driving laws are too loose and the General Assembly should approve the more than 20 bills introduced this session to stiffen them, witnesses told the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday

ANNAPOLIS – Students attending low-achievement public schools should be able to transfer to more successful schools in their jurisdictions, a Baltimore County lawmaker says

ANNAPOLIS – Nineteen Maryland communities with high crime rates will receive $10

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WASHINGTON – A former janitor at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be held in jail until at least Monday on charges that he assaulted four women at the facility by masturbating into their coffee

WASHINGTON – A new survey says that 80 percent of Montgomery County motorists support the construction a new Potomac River crossing, striking a stark contrast with the county council’s unanimous opposition