WASHINGTON – Super Bowl Sunday may be one of the deadliest days for alcohol-related traffic deaths across the nation, but county police and sheriff’s departments report that this Sunday will be “business as usual” in Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – A bill requiring veterinarians to report suspected animal abuse is drawing support from the animal-rights community but skepticism from some lawmakers in the General Assembly

ANNAPOLIS — Press accounts of coerced confessions and unscrupulous interrogation tactics by Maryland police officers have prompted Delegate Dana Lee Dembrow, D-Montgomery, to sponsor a bill to force officers to videotape all confessions of violent crimes

OLNEY – Semi-rural, conservative and nearly 80 percent white, Olney is a bastion of country quaintness

WASHINGTON – Yelena Sokolov sometimes hesitates to lecture her immigrant clients at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington about healthy eating

WASHINGTON- Maryland health advocates fear President Bush’s State of the Union promise for improved health care, including prescription drug coverage for senior citizens and tax credits for the uninsured, will be an empty one

TANYARD – Four years ago the state pledged $1

ANNAPOLIS — Police could confiscate vehicles and impound them for up to 12 hours if the driver has been charged with drunken driving under pending legislation in the Maryland General Assembly

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s state song – the refrain of an embittered Confederate sympathizer distraught at Union troops’ passage through his home state — has been a point of controversy for more than 20 years

WASHINGTON – It’s hard not to be suspicious when you get a call from the White House, asking if you’re free the next night to sit with the first lady while the president delivers the State of the Union address