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

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