ANNAPOLIS – Bird lovers and biologists are monitoring rising bird deaths in Maryland after the fourth raptor – a hawk found in Dorchester County – was found last week to have died from West Nile Virus

BALTIMORE – Maryland’s projected $1

ANNAPOLIS – Howard County Delegate Elizabeth Bobo is campaigning hard this year – but not for herself

WASHINGTON – The Maryland State Department of Education has not taken an official position on the Bush administration’s plan to expand single-sex public education, but a department officer has spoken out against the new regulations

WASHINGTON – Congress last week passed a stopgap measure to keep the 1996 welfare reform act alive for another three months — three months of uncertainty for states and welfare recipients, advocates say

WASHINGTON – Federal officials have cleared the way for the reopening of Hyde Field, a Prince George’s County private airfield that was the only one in the nation still closed in the wake of the Sept

ANNAPOLIS — Should Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend win the gubernatorial race in November, she will make history

WASHINGTON – When Fox Chapel Elementary School Principal Pamela Collins asked fourth graders at her Germantown school how they would feel about being in an all-boys or all-girls class, most liked the idea

ANNAPOLIS – The 13 inmates on Maryland’s death row should follow the gubernatorial race very closely – their lives may depend on it

BETHESDA – Reckless drivers beware: Starting this week, there will be tougher penalties for hit-and-run, repeat drunken driving and passengers drinking alcohol in a car