WASHINGTON – A federal decision to release Medicaid funding to Maryland should help the state expand its children’s health insurance program to include families that earn up to 300 percent of the poverty level, state officials said

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Insurance Administration Friday warned the state’s auto insurance companies to stop raising premiums for customers involved in accidents caused by faulty Firestone tires, or face legal consequences

WASHINGTON – Maryland officials confirmed Thursday that six more crows in Baltimore City were killed by the West Nile virus, bringing the total number of infected birds found in Maryland to nine this year

ANNAPOLIS – The tale was one of “an estranged wife, desperate to free herself from a marriage gone stale, leaving a trail of false clues and staging her husband’s death so as to make it appear a random accident

ANNAPOLIS – Orion, a German shepherd, and Anastasia, a black Persian cat, were the animals listed as human fatalities on a federal agency’s database of accidents tied to faulty Firestone tires and Ford vehicles

WASHINGTON – In a shaky voice that steadied as he spoke, Mike Kepferle told a small Capitol Hill crowd Wednesday how meningitis killed his oldest son, Joseph Patrick, less than 24 hours after he dropped the freshman off at Towson University

WASHINGTON – Most Maryland public colleges and universities engage in racial and ethnic discrimination when deciding which students to admit, a Washington-based research group charged Wednesday

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland is expected to be short a record 10,351 teachers – 1,600 more than this year – at the start of school next year, according to a report released Tuesday by the State Department of Education

WASHINGTON – Maryland recorded the lowest average poverty rate in the country from 1997 to 1999, while posting the second-highest median household income over the same period, according to a report Tuesday from the Census Bureau

ANNAPOLIS – At the beginning of each school year, Donna M