Maryland

Disabled Advocates Push Glendening For Home Care Money

ANNAPOLIS – Advocates for the disabled have deemed Gov

Lawmaker Wants Limits on Student Credit Card Debt

ANNAPOLIS – Some college students, unaccustomed to managing credit cards, find themselves racking up debt, so a Harford County legislator is trying to protect them from their own financial pitfalls

Report Shows State Schools Have Computer Hardware, Not Always Know-How

WASHINGTON – Student access to computers and the Internet is generally improving in Maryland, but schools in low-income areas are still lagging behind wealthier districts when it comes to teachers with computer skills, according to a new survey

Report Card on State Governments Puts Maryland Near the Top of the Class

WASHINGTON – Maryland ranked among the best-managed state governments in the country and is well positioned to endure an economic downturn, according to a Syracuse University study released Tuesday

Money Transfers to El Salvador Soar, As People Here Help Families There

WASHINGTON – Managers at many Maryland money-wiring businesses said they have seen transfers to El Salvador jump from hundreds of dollars a day to thousands in the two weeks since a massive earthquake devastated that country

Model `Judy’ Centers Boost Learning for Poor Children

ADELPHI – Carolee Botts, a pre-kindergarten teacher, kneels on the floor to help a group of her 4- and 5-year-old students put together a 48-piece puzzle of a bustling town scene

Legislators Want E-Privacy

ANNAPOLIS – Internet retailers nationwide might know you live in the suburbs, have three children and bought two plane tickets online in December

Silver Spring Woman Recounts Moments of Terror in El Salvador Earthquake

WASHINGTON – “The ground opened up,” said Anna Hernandez, 34, “and I just started to pray

Man is Behind Bars, Two Weeks After He Called in Sick to His Sentencing

WASHINGTON- Prince George’s County officials have arrested a Mount Rainier man almost two weeks after he called in sick to his scheduled sentencing for making bomb threats against county schools and racially harassing the system’s superintendent