WASHINGTON – The only shield between anthrax and the Marines testing Capitol Hill for the deadly bacterium looks like little more than a white trash bag, sealed with silver tape around bright yellow boots, and topped off with an alien-looking forced-air mask

ANNAPOLIS – More needs to be done to protect Maryland’s streams from acid rain, environmentalists say, citing a new study showing that the state’s streams have not recovered since the Clean Air Act of 1990 was adopted

COLLEGE PARK – Winning isn’t everything, or the only thing, but it sure is a wonderful thing at the University of Maryland, College Park

WASHINGTON – The stories have spread panic quickly to already-anxious Americans — terrorists will attack on Halloween or poison trick-or-treaters’ goodies with anthrax

ANNAPOLIS – Eastern Shore pediatricians are giving up on HealthChoice

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s managed care Medicaid program is crumbling, and the experts all agree why: there isn’t money in the program to cover insurers’ administrative costs, pay providers enough to keep them in the system and support a pool of enrollees grown well beyond state estimates

WASHINGTON – In the wake of the Sept

WASHINGTON – Flu season is upon us, but many health clinics say they have not received their vaccine shipments yet

BALTIMORE – Oscar Rodriguez, 40, has four daughters – that’s four college tuitions and four weddings he’ll have to pay for over the next 20 years – which is why his wife made him audition for “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” Friday

HYATTSVILLE – Neico Joy can’t remember the last time he flew on an airplane and the Prince George’s County seventh-grader can’t say when he might fly again