ANNAPOLIS The surge of Internet buying has swept up Valentine’s Day shoppers, and many Maryland florists say they must log on or get left behind

HAGERSTOWN – City officials are afraid they will lose their minor league baseball team, the Hagerstown Suns, if they don’t build a new stadium, but commissioners in debt- ridden Washington County are skeptical of the $10 million project

BETHESDA-In a world of big-game hunters, Daniel M

WASHINGTON – Sally Roberts Mayer and Stanley Mazur are in a race for their lives — a race for which they mostly have to sit and wait

WASHINGTON – Patients in need of organ transplants face a longer wait in Maryland than in many parts of the nation, including nearby mid-Atlantic states, according to a recent report for the Department of Health and Human Services

WASHINGTON – The Washington Monument is closed

ANNAPOLIS- Some legislators are protesting plans to put their financial records on the Internet, citing concerns that web surfers’ findings may invade lawmakers’ privacy

WASHINGTON – The Army Corps of Engineers said Friday that it could find only “short- term and localized” negative environmental impacts from a plan to dump dredge spoils along a four-mile stretch of bay off of Kent Island

WASHINGTON – More than a month after it was supposed to be making all federal benefits payments by direct deposit, the federal government is still making almost one-third of those payments with paper checks

ANNAPOLIS Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan, several Montgomery County delegation members, other county officials and police agencies sent a clear message Thursday threats and acts of violence will not be tolerated in Maryland schools