Sex Offender Registry Goes Online, Easing Access but Raising Privacy Concerns

WASHINGTON – Maryland officials will post the state’s sex offender registry online Monday, allowing anyone in the world to look up the name, address and picture of more than 2,000 convicts

Maryland Public Television Adapts to Wider, More Diverse Audience

ANNAPOLIS – Officials at Maryland Public Television never planned the abrupt dismissal of Louis Rukeyser, longtime host of the popular financial show, “Wall Street Week,” but the move has allowed them to begin retooling programming to appeal to a more diverse audience

Housing Advocates See Increase In Harassment of Women by Landlords, Custodians

WASHINGTON – They didn’t leave their names and they didn’t say where they lived

Lawmaker Salaries Surge With Recommendation Approval

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s part-time lawmakers this year received the largest legislative pay raises in state history — up nearly 40 percent to $43,500 by 2006

Federal Budget Cuts, Loss of Private Funds Threaten Prison Education Programs

GLEN BURNIE – Tavon Taylor is probably more enthusiastic about his fiberoptics and copper cabling class than the typical Anne Arundel Community College student, but that’s easy to understand

Friedgen, Williams Take-Home Pay Tops Highest-Paid State Employees

ANNAPOLIS – The University of Maryland’s two high-profile coaches — who guided the football and men’s basketball programs to unprecedented success — are making nearly triple the earnings of the top-paid state employee

Terps Victory Tour Hits Capitol Hill For Praise From Congressional Delegation

WASHINGTON – The Maryland Terrapins men’s basketball team had already been to the mountaintop

Maryland Lawmakers Buoyed by Terrorism Briefing, But Ready for Long Fight

WASHINGTON – Maryland legislators said that the state of America’s war on terrorism looks promising, after they received a classified update on the situation Wednesday by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld