WASHINGTON – Janet B

ANNAPOLIS – He successfully lobbied for schools to drop transcript fees, tried to remain out of the school board’s expense account mess and is pulling better than a 4

WASHINGTON – Help came too late for Robby

WASHINGTON – The amount of air pollution emitted by all facilities reporting annually in Maryland fell slightly in the latter half of the 1990s, according to an analysis of four years of state emissions certification reports

ANNAPOLIS – Not all patents filed in Maryland are complex scientific ones granted to inventors working for high-tech companies

ANNAPOLIS – If patents are an indicator of inventiveness, Maryland is edging out rival Virginia in that corner of the technology economy wars

ANNAPOLIS – When Peggy Irish’s husband told her to wander around the exhibition area of a seminar in New Orleans last year, neither expected her to start the process of patenting an ornament for the Maryland Federation of Republican Women

WASHINGTON – Ozone pollution in the Baltimore-Washington area is slowly improving, but it remains the biggest and most enduring air pollution problem in the region, said a state environmental official and a scientist who has studied the problem for years

WASHINGTON – Once a dog is declared “excess” by the Defense Department, meaning it cannot be used in another capacity by the military, it becomes a candidate for adoption

WASHINGTON – Every screw, tie-line and tea cup on every amusement ride erected in Maryland must pass Craig Lowry’s band of inspectors before the kids can climb aboard