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

WASHINGTON – Local universities and language schools are anxiously waiting to see how stricter immigration policies likely to come in the wake of the Sept

WASHINGTON – Senate staff members and workers stood calmly outside a makeshift doctor’s office Friday on Capitol Hill, giving little indication of the potentially life-altering information they were waiting to receive

SILVER SPRING – Maryland lawmakers joined the head of the Environmental Protection Agency at a suburban Washington water utility Thursday to reassure people that their drinking water is safe from a biological attack

WASHINGTON – Faced with the prospect of up to 8,000 new teachers for each of the next few years, the state Department of Education has said it will support the development of the first statewide curriculum ever

ANNAPOLIS – The University of Maryland at College Park decided last week to forgo an informal agreement to make its campus more environmentally friendly, frustrating advocates of the Anacostia watershed