WASHINGTON – Ocean City Mayor James Mathias defended the city’s development and beach replenishment efforts Thursday to a panel of coastal scientists and urged them to fight for continued federal funding for coastal programs

Inspectors fanned out across Maryland Wednesday to test businesses and postal facilities for the presence of anthrax, after mail was rerouted to the state from a contaminated District facility

WASHINGTON – Communications and evacuation plans were the biggest problem areas in local governments’ response to the Sept

ANNAPOLIS – The Board of Public Works has often been a battleground for Comptroller William Donald Schaefer and Gov

WASHINGTON – Maryland lawmakers split Wednesday on a plan to stimulate the faltering economy, but voted overwhelmingly for anti-terrorism legislation that would expand police power to secretly search homes, tap phone lines and monitor Internet use of suspected terrorists

GLEN BURNIE – President Bush touted his economic stimulus package to a Glen Burnie factory full of workers Wednesday, reassuring them that he will not allow the American economy to become a victim of terrorism

ANNAPOLIS – Research representatives told Maryland legislators Tuesday their institutions can and should continue research on humans without state intervention, despite recent revelations about research projects that led to the death of one subject and exposed nearly 200 children to lead poisoning

WASHINGTON – Mail from Washington is being rerouted to two Maryland postal processing facilities after the deaths of two workers from what appears to be anthrax closed the District’s Brentwood postal station

RISING SUN – Calvert Elementary third-graders in Connie Seibert’s class stare at the “media messages” laid out on their desks

ANNAPOLIS – Funding for school construction in Maryland next fiscal year may be less than school districts are hoping