BALTIMORE – Paul Stancil has a nose for hazardous materials

ANNAPOLIS – In the 1980’s Maryland’s nursing homes were filled almost to capacity, then after 30 years of increasing enrollment the 1990’s witnessed an unexpected 5 percent drop

WASHINGTON – The relicensing of the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant will have minimal environmental impact and should be allowed to proceed, according to a draft statement from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

WASHINGTON – Maryland lottery agents could be selling as many as 300 tickets a second in the minutes leading up to Friday night’s drawing for a $160 million Big Game jackpot, lottery officials predicted Thursday

WASHINGTON – The number of Maryland children living in poverty grew by 34 percent between 1989 and 1995, rising to 171,746 children, according to a report released Thursday

WASHINGTON – State officials have charged five home-improvement contractors with criminal water pollution for “power washing” operations that stripped lead paint from Baltimore buildings and let it run off into storm drains

UPPER MARLBORO – If the farming community ever needed a favor from the state government, it’s now, farm representatives said Thursday

WASHINGTON – State officials have long conceded that it is virtually impossible to collect taxes on out-of-state sales such as mail-order purchases: That headache may now go high-tech with the projected boom in online sales

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland farmers will try to cut their losses caused by low market prices and last year’s drought by planting less corn this year, according to an agricultural report released Wednesday

ANNAPOLIS — A bill exempting purchases of prisoner-of-war flags from Maryland’s 5 percent sales tax will be debated in a Senate hearing Thursday