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LAUREL – Olivia Jackson’s hands recorded every day of the 45 years she worked

Maryland Corporations Get the Once Over — Lightly — by IRS Auditors

WASHINGTON – Almost 13,000 Maryland and Delaware tax returns were audited in 1998, putting those taxpayers through the often stressful ordeal of meeting Internal Revenue Service auditors face-to-face

Health Professionals Battle for Patient Access

ANNAPOLIS – Doctors are battling to keep their title as primary care physicians, while specialists and nurse practitioners plead with state legislators to give them more direct access to managed care patients

92-year-old remembers the days of being the first Senate page

ANNAPOLIS – It’s 1932, and Thomas Columbus Edwards, then 24, is called to the podium by Maryland Senate President Walter J

Maryland’s Congressional Offices Are Fielding Few Comments on Kosovo

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s members of Congress say they are receiving only a handful of calls each day on Kosovo, most of them against U

Blackwater Refuge Wages Uphill Battle Against Booming Nutria Population

CAMBRIDGE – When Bill Gieze began working at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in the 1960s, the channel was still deep enough for an old military landing craft that was used to shuttle supplies to another site

Care Trouble,490

ANNAPOLIS – Residential Care Network of Pikesville is appealing a decision to revoke its license after the state health department found numerous violations of care standards

Maryland Auto Thefts Down

ANNAPOLIS – There’s good news for Maryland drivers: automobile theft is declining in almost every county

Modified Sunday Hunting Bill Shot Down

ANNAPOLIS – An attempt to breathe life into a bill allowing Sunday hunting was killed Tuesday by a Senate committee

Appeals Court Rejects Claims of Racism in Route 50 Bypass Planning

A federal appeals court has rejected complaints from residents of a largely black Salisbury neighborhood who are trying to block construction of a highway bypass that would pass near their community