WASHINGTON – Maryland officials who distributed potassium iodide tablets to residents near nuclear power plants reached twice as many people as they had hoped to last year, but there is still room for improvement, they said Friday

ANNAPOLIS – With just one vote to spare, a controversial bill to stop Maryland’s use of the death penalty for three years made its way out of a Senate committee Friday

ANNAPOLIS – Public and private college presidents banded together in an unusual show of camaraderie Thursday to fight additional higher education budget cuts

ANNAPOLIS – Calling working in smoky pubs a “death penalty,” Sen

ANNAPOLIS – Madison Hobley, 42, on Illinois’ death row for 12 years before he was exonerated in January by the outgoing governor, cried after testifying before Maryland’s House Judiciary Committee Thursday

ANNAPOLIS – A Senate panel Thursday examined campaign financing against the backdrop of a General Assembly grappling with slot machines and a study that linked gaming and $500,000 in election donations

WASHINGTON – When winter weather closes Maryland’s public schools, it also shuts down the school lunch programs that provide tens of thousands of Maryland’s poorest kids with guaranteed meals

ANNAPOLIS – A controversial highway project in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties moved one step closer to reality Thursday when federal transportation officials gave it fast-track status for environmental study

WASHINGTON – The struggling economy and budget cuts on the federal and state level have left nearly 72 percent of the nation’s counties strapped for cash, according to a report released Thursday by the National Association of Counties

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland senators told Gov