ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland House of Delegates unanimously approved a bill Friday to ease the rising costs of prescriptions drugs for poor, uninsured people and the elderly

ANNAPOLIS – The House of Delegates surprised supporters of a death penalty moratorium Friday by giving preliminary approval to a favorable committee report on that bill

WASHINGTON – What happens when Maryland Day falls on a Sunday? The same thing that happens when the state holiday falls on any other day of the week — not much

WASHINGTON – The vast majority of Baltimore residents who fled the city during the 1990s were not retiring to Florida or moving out of the region — most were moving to the close-in suburbs and taking much-needed income with them

WASHINGTON – African Americans own about one of eight businesses in Maryland, the highest percentage among the nation’s 50 states, according to the Census Bureau

WASHINGTON – Even though the General Assembly won’t redraw political districts until the 2002 session, Maryland Republicans are already contemplating a lawsuit over the coming redistricting

ANNAPOLIS – The Senate backed a bill Thursday to report on and educate citizens about pesticides released into the environment and their effects on humans

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Senate approved Gov

ANNAPOLIS – House leaders introduced legislation Thursday to clarify Maryland’s open records law and to create a task force to study how to make public documents more accessible, after a media study turned up numerous problems with agency compliance

ANNAPOLIS – A measure to reduce the legal drunken-driving threshold from