WASHINGTON – In an unimposing laboratory tucked away on a ninth-floor hallway at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, a three-person team spends its days trying to keep one step ahead of food-borne illness outbreaks

ANNAPOLIS – Tens of thousands of low-income senior citizens have found relief from high medicine costs through Maryland’s newly expanded prescription drug relief program, health department officials reported to the General Assembly

ANNAPOLIS – Jim Hill’s 87-foot chestnut tree may be the unsung hero in the battle against chestnut blight — or the attempt to grow a nearly pure American blight-resistant chestnut tree

ANNAPOLIS – Despite ranking 19th in state population, Maryland is fifth in the annual number of AIDS incidences, a statistic fueled by drug use and cited by activists trying to make the state do more to combat the virus

WASHINGTON – Maryland is one of the wealthiest states in the nation, but it makes a relatively poor showing when it comes to federal aid to help the state’s neediest people, according to a new study

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has upheld the death sentence in the murders of a Capitol Heights couple in 1995, rejecting killer Heath William Burch’s argument that Maryland death-sentencing provisions are unconstitutional

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s ballot access restrictions for alternative political parties stifle party development and limit the number of candidates they can support, the Maryland Green Party told a packed Court of Appeals Thursday

WASHINGTON – A Thursday bid deadline on the largest phase of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge reconstruction has been pushed back to next month, because the federal government has failed to approve the project’s labor agreement, Maryland officials said

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WASHINGTON – The number of Maryland schoolchildren receiving free or reduced-price breakfasts at school jumped by 8,401 last year, even as the number of schools offering breakfasts fell, according to a report released Tuesday