WASHINGTON – A Maryland health official said limited resources and unclear federal direction are largely to blame for General Accounting Office findings that the state drags its feet when investigating poor nursing home care

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ANNAPOLIS — The Senate Finance Committee may have thought it was in the clear Friday when it passed a bill opening Maryland’s electric market to competition, but Maryland’s Secretary of the Environment said Monday that the Senate bill falls short on protecting air and water quality

WASHINGTON – Anne Arundel County Police Detective Bob Fuecker told a Senate panel Tuesday the county has investigated 53 cases of elderly abuse in the last four years

A federal circuit court rejected claims by a member of a Prince George’s County drug ring that he should not have been sentenced as a “career offender,” despite two previous convictions

ANNAPOLIS – Large-scale DWI reform seems dead for the year, with the rejection in the House of several bills targeting drunken drivers, including two to lower the blood alcohol level at which drivers are considered intoxicated

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal from a Frederick woman who claimed her father was the victim of negligent medical care and “patient dumping” by Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring

WASHINGTON – Bill and Nancy Greer of Pasadena both gave up full-time jobs to home school their two children

WASHINGTON – The number of students taught at home in Maryland rose almost 500 percent this decade, growing from 2,296 home-schooled students in the 1990- 91 school year to 13,665 in 1997-98