WASHINGTON – Many of Maryland’s working poor are needlessly paying to have their taxes prepared and then handing over portions of their returns for quick loans that carry high interest, according to a study released this week

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s most severe nursing shortage since the 1980s has turned into a crisis, and with constant complaints from patients about the poor quality of care they’re receiving, legislators are looking to the commission they created in 2000 for answers

ANNAPOLIS – A new Cabinet-level agency may soon handle disability services, Gov

WASHINGTON – Sam Legg may have to “figure out how to carry a bucket of tissues” with him, but the 86-year-old Baltimore resident said he won’t let a cold keep him from Saturday’s peace rally

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has ordered a new hearing for a St

ANNAPOLIS – The Department of the Environment’s budget took a 22 percent bite under the budget released Friday by Gov

WASHINGTON – Emergency shelters across the state are overflowing with homeless, forcing many people to be turned away as temperatures dip into the single digits in some parts of the state

ANNAPOLIS – Public schools would get a $242 million increase in state aid in Gov

ANNAPOLIS – Predictions about Gov

ANNAPOLIS – The state Senate’s top leader warned colleagues Thursday not to “draw a line in the sand” over slot machines and new taxes, issues that have polarized lawmakers in recent weeks as possible remedies for a mounting budget deficit