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

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