ANNAPOLIS – Bail bondsmen and prominent Maryland public officials clashed Wednesday at a hearing on a bill that could hurt bondsmen by encouraging defendants to pay bail directly to the court

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is betting heavily that the Troops to Teachers program can help solve the national teacher shortage

WASHINGTON – Maryland lawmakers and steelworkers gave a lukewarm reception to President Bush’s Tuesday announcement that he would impose up to a 30 percent tariff on some imported steel

WASHINGTON – Twenty years in the Army — even patrolling the demilitarized zone in South Korea — didn’t quite prepare Arthur Moore for fourth and fifth graders

ANNAPOLIS – Plenty of low-income, hard-working folks won’t survive if Maryland imposes a blue crab size limit that’s different from Virginia, watermen and crab pickers told a Senate panel Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS – Comptroller reports show Maryland income tax revenues are down $71

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s system of dealing with children’s issues is failing those it purports to protect, said the sponsor of several reform bills at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS – A bill allowing mothers to legally abandon their newborns with any responsible person passed the Maryland House of Delegates Tuesday, ending – at least for a while – debate over the state’s safe haven laws

WASHINGTON – A federal court said a former Home Depot worker cannot claim protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act for chronic sinus problems because he did not prove that they prevented him from working

ANNAPOLIS – Opponents see it as beating a dead horse, but several leading lawmakers urged House and Senate committees Tuesday to resume a stalled federal environmental impact study for the Inter-county Connector, a project debated for five decades in the General Assembly