ANNAPOLIS Maryland patients could be given the right to sue their managed care organizations for the first time under legislation backed by more than a dozen legislators

WASHINGTON – Maryland had the nation’s 46th-lowest number of state and local government workers per capita in 1997, based on figures scheduled to be released Friday by the Census Bureau

ANNAPOLIS Consumers may have a way out of paying increasing taxes on tobacco products the Internet

WASHINGTON – A Justice Department official told a meeting of lieutenant governors Wednesday they should look to two Maryland crime prevention programs as innovators in the national fight against prison overcrowding

ANNAPOLIS Seventeen years ago it began with her grandmother

WASHINGTON – Some Maryland lawmakers want to turn cockfighters and others who violate animal cruelty laws into felons

ANNAPOLIS – Lawmakers considered several proposals to fight sexual crime Tuesday, including posting the names of sexual predators on the Internet, protecting community associations that announce when offenders move into the neighborhood and preventing police from making rape victims take lie detector tests

A federal appeals court has ordered a Maryland man to pay his ex-wife an additional $35,961 from his pension plan, rejecting his argument that federal tax law prohibits him from doing so

ANNAPOLIS – Syphilis and gonorrhea aren’t the only sexually transmitted diseases Marylanders need to worry about

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s senators voted Friday to acquit President Clinton of all articles of impeachment, saying they disapproved of his behavior but did not believe he should be removed from office