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

WASHINGTON – A federal judge found that Charles County was within its rights when it rezoned a tract of land on the Potomac River to allow 43 homes instead of the originally approved 252

ANNAPOLIS – Last year, it was French maids and sexy devils

ANNAPOLIS – A recently convicted Michigan man took advantage of his state’s loose gun show laws, exporting arms and ammunition bought at state gun shows to a terrorist group in Lebanon

WASHINGTON – Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley said the city’s response to a Wednesday anthrax threat was a good test of preparedness that exposed some weaknesses but overall showed the city’s plan to be sound

ANNAPOLIS – Fort Detrick’s “Anthrax Tower” was at the center of the biological weapons program during the 1950s and 1960s, producing weapons-grade anthrax for bombs, aerosols and other delivery systems

WASHINGTON – Maryland pumpkin farmers say they’re selling more than just a big orange gourd these days — they’re selling pumpkin-picking families a low- cost, wholesome way to spend time together

WASHINGTON- Maryland children are opening their hearts and emptying their piggy banks for victims of the Sept

WASHINGTON – If they were older, they might be known as the lobbying firm of Beauchamp, Murphy and Wiegmann