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

ANNAPOLIS Environmentalists have some reservations about plans to burn chicken manure as fuel for power plants ironically an effort promoted to help with a different environmental problem, the fish-killing disease Pfiesteria piscicida

WASHINGTON – A House committee approved a bill Wednesday to exempt Amish teen-agers from a portion of federal child labor law, a move that could help Maryland’s Amish families protect their threatened way of life

TOWSON – When Delegate Maggie McIntosh, D-Baltimore, received a report on the status of computers in the classroom last year, she was impressed to see that 82 percent of Maryland teachers feel comfortable operating computers

ANNAPOLIS – Two new economic development bills introduced by Gov