WASHINGTON – The 300 wastewater treatment plants in the Chesapeake Bay watershed need $1

COLLEGE PARK – Eight years after his death, President Nixon can still pack a room full of reporters and keep them buzzing

ANNAPOLIS – A tobacco tax increase could revive a stalled school reform plan threatened by a tight budget, said the Senate budget chairwoman who hopes to link the two

WASHINGTON – Alyssa Pascarell, 8, does not know what it means to “Stand up for Steel,” but she chanted the slogan anyway

ANNAPOLIS – A change to legislation that allows distraught mothers to legally abandon their babies prompted more than 20 members of the Maryland House of Delegates to remove their names as co-sponsors of the bill

ANNAPOLIS – The General Assembly would undo environmental progress if it imposes planned “crippling” cuts in the state’s premier conservation programs, Gov

ANNAPOLIS – Anti-poverty activists rallied in front of the State House Thursday, trying to influence legislators to provide more money for programs for the poor in this tight budget year

BALTIMORE – The chief physician at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center defended the hospital Thursday against charges that it denied a gay man visitation with his domestic partner as the second man lay dying

WASHINGTON – Marissa Moore stood in a marble corridor of the Dirksen Senate building Thursday with her fifth-grade classmates from Mount Rainier Elementary, hundreds of paper dolls cascading from their arms

WASHINGTON – Same-sex partners made up less than 1 percent of Maryland’s 1