WASHINGTON – Check-cashing businesses in Maryland routinely charge fees of up to 20 percent and levy interest on cash advances that can run as high as 300 percent on an annual basis, say community and consumer rights advocates

FROSTBURG – After almost 25 years in an old campus cafeteria, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Appalachian Laboratory has a new $17

COLUMBIA – Howard County has one of the best records in the state on hiring minority teachers

ANNAPOLIS – If the 1999 General Assembly session was the education session, Marylanders ain’t seen nothing yet

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s second highest court denied Ruth M

State and congressional officials vowed Friday to get the Woodrow Wilson Bridge replacement quickly back on track to avoid a “traffic nightmare,” after a federal judge ordered further study of the project

ANNAPOLIS – Tobacco giant Philip Morris will meet with growers in Atlanta next week to discuss alternatives to the auction system – a move that some reports say could affect a $5

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ANNAPOLIS – Some 600,000 Marylanders filed their federal and state tax returns Thursday – the last day to file without penalties

WASHINGTON – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave two thumbs up to the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant this week in unrelated safety reports on the facility