Maryland

Bill to Give Assembly Budget Power Fails in Senate

ANNAPOLIS – With 13 of the original 33 sponsors withdrawing their support, a constitutional amendment to give additional budgetary power to the General Assembly failed to win the 29 votes it needed to pass the Senate Tuesday

Mothers Look to Legislature For Right to Breast-feed

ANNAPOLIS – When her 3-month-old son started screaming in hunger, a Riestertown mother recently sought out a bench in the front of an Owings Mills toy store to nurse

Poor Advocates Rally for Supplemental Budget

ANNAPOLIS – A car accident left Jerry Lynch of Rockville with a glass eye and no job

House Panel Backs Name Change, Lower Limit for Drunken Driving

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s drunken-driving law would get a makeover under legislation approved by a House panel Tuesday

Bushes Pluck Prince George’s County Principal to Share Speech Spotlight

WASHINGTON – Even though she said she hasn’t slept since Sunday, Adela Acosta expected to be wide awake Tuesday night as she sat with first lady Laura Bush for the president’s first speech to Congress

Bush’s Tax Cut Proposal Not a Top Priority for Most Marylanders, Poll Shows

WASHINGTON – President Bush’s first address to Congress called for sweeping tax cuts, but few Marylanders see that as a top priority, according to a new poll

Maryland Lawmakers Wait to See Details Before Committing to Bush’s Plan

WASHINGTON – Maryland lawmakers split along largely partisan lines on President Bush’s first address to Congress Tuesday night, with Republicans hailing it as “very good” and Democrats calling it “too good to be true

Black Man to Get Hearing on Charges of Racially Intolerable Workplace

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has, for the second time, said a Prince George’s County black man can sue his former employer for his supervisor’s “continuous daily” racial slurs