Maryland HMO Report Reflects More `Sophisticated’ Consumers

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Health Care Commission released its 2001 HMO report card Friday, a document that included new and very specific information tailored to consumers with chronic diseases and mental health needs

Maryland Genetics Labs Devote Time, Resources to ID Sept. 11 Victims

ANNAPOLIS – Officials are looking to Maryland genetics laboratories for high-tech help in the search to identify those killed in the Sept

Federal Judge Rules State Care of Mentally Disabled Patients Adequate

WASHINGTON – Maryland did the best it could in caring for brain-damaged or developmentally disabled patients over the past decade and cannot be forced to provide community placement for those patients, a federal court has ruled

Baltimore Fights Bioterrorism with High-Tech System to Detect Outbreaks

WASHINGTON – Baltimore City health officials expects to have an online bioterrorism surveillance plan in place by Monday, a system that they said will put them among the leaders nationally in bioterror defense

Maryland Anti-War Protesters Plan to Bring Message of Peace to Washington

WASHINGTON – Busloads of Marylanders will join thousands who are expected to march in anti-war demonstrations in Washington this weekend, a shadow of the protests originally planned for the canceled World Bank meetings here

Former Terp Hoop Star Offers Meal to Comfort Tornado Displaced Students

COLLEGE PARK – Former University of Maryland star basketball player Steve Francis was preparing for the start of the NBA season, playing pick-up games with former teammates in Cole Field House Monday, when a tornado tore through campus

Conservatives Take Senate Republican Leadership Mantle

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland Senate Republicans took just over an hour Thursday afternoon to unanimously select Sen

Federal Court Rules State Immune from Family Medical Leave Act Suits

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has held that Maryland is immune from lawsuits under the Family Medical Leave Act, which guarantees employees an identical job to the one they left temporarily for medical reasons

Appeals Court Rejects Clark Appeal in Michele Dorr’s Murder

ANNAPOLIS – The Court of Special Appeals rejected Hadden Clark’s bid for a new trial in the 1986 murder of 6-year-old Michele Dorr Wednesday, upholding the Montgomery County Circuit Court decision to include evidence and testimony that the defense argued were hearsay and inadmissible