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

ANNAPOLIS – If one Maryland lawmaker has his way, a stallion known for its strength and speed will take the calico cat’s place as the newest official state symbol

WASHINGTON – Family members of two Washington-area sniper victims filed suit Thursday against a gun maker and a gun dealer, charging that the businesses “share the responsibility” for the spree that killed 10 and wounded three

ANNAPOLIS – Buried in cases, the Maryland Office of the Public Defender Thursday asked the Senate Subcommittee on Public Safety, Transportation, and Environment for help – $10 million to $12 million over the next three years to increase its staff

ANNAPOLIS – Legislators extolled the historic significance of Lt

WASHINGTON – Maryland officials are drawing up court papers in support of the University of Michigan’s race-based admissions policy, which President Bush on Wednesday called “divisive, unfair and impossible to square with the Constitution

WASHINGTON – The federal government said Wednesday that it will extend job retraining benefits to hundreds of contract workers who stand to lose their jobs when Black & Decker’s Easton plant closes this year

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland Wednesday inaugurated its first Republican governor in more than three decades and its first statewide elected black official, then buckled up for the next four years of what is likely to be a rough fiscal road

ANNAPOLIS – Even on his Inauguration Day, Gov

WASHINGTON – The number and rate of abortions in Maryland has increased since 1996, putting the state at odds with the overall national decline in abortions, according to a study released this week