KENSINGTON – State Sen

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers seem to have their own agenda for an issue that’s spent months on the national stage: controlling the rising cost of prescription drugs

ANNAPOLIS – A proposal to gather data on antibiotic-laced animal feed is likely dead for the year, after both the Maryland Senate and a House panel defeated the measure Wednesday

GREENBELT – For the court clerks who handle bankruptcy paperwork, the sound of changing bankruptcy law is the distinctive “thump-thump” from office time-stamp machines

WASHINGTON – Less than 2 percent of Marylanders claimed a multiracial heritage in the census last year, the first time the government allowed people to identify themselves by more than one race

WASHINGTON – Maryland is becoming more diverse, with rising Latino and Asian populations, but census numbers reveal that some areas of the state still look more like checkerboards than melting pots

WASHINGTON – Rockville fell from the second-largest city in the state in 1990 to the fifth-largest in 2000, outpaced by booming growth of more than 30 percent each in Frederick, Gaithersburg and Bowie

ANNAPOLIS – The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Tuesday unanimously passed its version of safe haven legislation – just a day after the Maryland House of Delegates doused firefighters’ protests and passed the measure 115-19

ANNAPOLIS – A Senate panel infamous among gay rights advocates for killing anti-discrimination legislation approved Gov

WASHINGTON – Maryland fire officials plan to take advantage of a new federal program that will give local departments money for equipment and training, after the Bush administration Tuesday abruptly reversed its threat to cancel the program