Mothers Look to Legislature For Right to Breast-feed

ANNAPOLIS – When her 3-month-old son started screaming in hunger, a Riestertown mother recently sought out a bench in the front of an Owings Mills toy store to nurse

Bill to Give Assembly Budget Power Fails in Senate

ANNAPOLIS – With 13 of the original 33 sponsors withdrawing their support, a constitutional amendment to give additional budgetary power to the General Assembly failed to win the 29 votes it needed to pass the Senate Tuesday

Black Man to Get Hearing on Charges of Racially Intolerable Workplace

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has, for the second time, said a Prince George’s County black man can sue his former employer for his supervisor’s “continuous daily” racial slurs

Bills Would Extend Use of Lever Voting Machines

ANNAPOLIS – The voters of Dorchester County would be very happy to keep their mechanical lever voting machines for the 2002 election, according to Delegate Adelaide Eckardt, D-Dorchester

Senate Measure Would Mandate Gun Safety Courses in Schools

ANNAPOLIS – Public schools would have to teach Maryland students how to handle guns under legislation passed in the Senate Friday

Despite Tough Gun Laws, Centreville Man Got Shotgun

ANNAPOLIS – None of Maryland’s strict gun laws could have stopped a Centreville man charged in the shooting deaths of two police officers two weeks ago from obtaining the shotgun believed used in their slaying

Drop in Food Stamp Rolls Outstrips Drop in Poverty in State, Advocates Say

WASHINGTON – Poor people are still going hungry across the country and in Maryland, despite a booming economy and plenty of federal aid to combat the problem, according to two reports released by hunger advocates Friday

Hold the Anchovies: Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Does, by the Thousands

WASHINGTON – More than 1 million fish and crabs are sucked out of the bay each year by the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant, which draws about 2