WASHINGTON – Maryland has seen a boom in applications for new or expanded power plants since deregulation, despite predictions that suppliers would shun the state and its low-cost energy prices

ANNAPOLIS – Within five to 10 years, scientists believe they will be able to predict who might be at risk for a genetically linked disease

ANNAPOLIS – A bill to temporarily halt executions in Maryland quietly received a preliminary favorable vote in the Senate after a week of intense and emotional political maneuvering

ANNAPOLIS – The first 100 disabled people are being processed for moves from nursing homes to community-based programs now that funding has come through for a relocation program that began April 1

WASHINGTON – Maryland has the second-highest percentage of women-owned businesses in the nation, according to new Census Bureau data, many of them new, small companies like Pam Young’s Eye of the Needle Embroidery

WASHINGTON – At age 90, Nancy Poore Tufts has earned two masters degrees in music, was an organist and church choir director for almost 70 years, drove an ambulance in Washington in the 1940s and was a founder and longtime director of the Potomac English Hand-bell Ringers group

ANNAPOLIS – Johnny Woodhouse spent five years in a federal institution for cocaine possession, but he will be paying for it for the rest of his life

WASHINGTON – Police arrested a student athlete Thursday in connection with Saturday’s Final Four rampage in College Park, in which disappointed basketball fans set bonfires that caused more than $500,000 in damages

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland students in grades seven through 12 could learn how to handle firearms as part of their school curriculum, under a proposal passed Thursday in the House of Delegates

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s insurance commissioner warned Congress Wednesday that tax credits are not the panacea for the 43 million Americans who lack health insurance