WASHINGTON – Maryland university officials welcomed last week’s Supreme Court ruling that said colleges can collect mandatory fees from students, even if the money funds campus groups that the students may disagree with

WASHINGTON – While Congress and the White House battle over where to put used radioactive fuel rods from the nation’s nuclear power plants, Maryland’s only nuclear plant is preparing to increase on-site storage capacity up to 150 percent

LUSBY – For Randy Radeackar’s three dogs, the best thing in life is the fenced baseball field near his home in Calvert County

ANNAPOLIS – A threatened Maryland Senate filibuster by opponents of Gov

WASHINGTON – Maryland farmers and environmentalists, two groups often perceived as adversaries, are in fact “natural allies” who should be working together, according to a new study by a university team of anthropologists

WASHINGTON – Maryland airports will get $21 million in federal funding over the next three years, up to double the current level of support for some facilities, under a bill awaiting President Clinton’s signature

DENTON – Charles Lohmeyer stands in a sea of more than 100,000 pink, purple and yellow begonias, impatiens and marigolds

ANNAPOLIS – After a bitter debate Friday, the Maryland House of Delegates passed a bill to temporarily bar the Baltimore Port Administration from dumping dredge spoil into the Chesapeake Bay’s Site 104

ANNAPOLIS – With the General Assembly’s 90-day cutoff barely two weeks away and the fate of hundreds of bills still undecided – including the state’s $19

WASHINGTON – The Census Bureau has tested only one-third of the applicants it hopes to get as enumerators in Baltimore, a job that has been called critical to the state securing its share of federal funds over the next decade