ANNAPOLIS – After a several week delay over security concerns, a longtime Santa’s quest for lawmakers to sign holiday greetings for troops overseas was granted Wednesday

ANNAPOLIS – Use Durex-brand condoms to celebrate Valentine’s Day and local schools can reap the benefits

WASHINGTON – A Baltimore center will be among the first places in Maryland to offer a new rapid HIV test when it begins the service on Valentine’s Day

ANNAPOLIS – Budget battles may force the General Assembly into an extended session, state leaders said Wednesday

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland housing advocates trekked to Annapolis Wednesday to alert lawmakers to the growing lack of affordable housing and to jockey for position in the battle for funding while the state faces a nearly $2 billion budget shortfall

WASHINGTON – Mel Fishman’s lingerie and adult store in Bethesda has everything anyone would ever dream of on Valentine’s Day — except customers

WASHINGTON – Maryland schools are prepared for tornadoes, snipers and a nuclear power plant meltdown but random terrorism has officials stumped

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ANNAPOLIS – Trying to reverse the damage done to the Chesapeake Bay’s disease-ravaged oyster stocks, one legislator hopes to speed the introduction of a fast-growing, disease-resistant Chinese oyster to the bay

ANNAPOLIS – A senator trying to settle a racial profiling lawsuit blocked confirmation of the Maryland State Police Superintendent Tuesday, and now says the governor may sign off on the agreement as early as Thursday