COLUMBIA – The Maryland State Emergency Board decided Wednesday to seek federal loans for farmers in nine Maryland counties hit by the recent drought

BALTIMORE Black high school students in Maryland dropped out at a rate twice as high as white students in 1997, and, on average, scored nearly 200 points lower on the national Scholastic Assessment Test, according to a report presented at Wednesday’s Maryland State Board of Education meeting

ANNAPOLIS – Former Vice President Dan Quayle this week joined a growing chorus of Republicans calling for President Clinton to resign

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland is expected to receive additional federal funds for highway and transit improvements over the next five years thanks to a measure passed by Congress in June, a state highway official told a legislative panel Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS – Less than three weeks after its much ballyhooed unveiling, Maryland’s millennium countdown clock isn’t counting as state officials decide on a new location for the modern- looking time keeper

WASHINGTON – Marylanders are flooding their congressmen with calls and letters demanding that President Clinton be impeached or asking that lawmakers urge him to resign

WASHINGTON – Political analysts are greeting Maryland’s congressional elections this fall with a collective yawn

LAUREL – To Shirley Tumlin, May 15, 1972, is more than the day a gunman shot then-presidential hopeful George Wallace in the parking lot of the Laurel Shopping Center

ANNAPOLIS – For some, deer hunting has taken on new meaning: charity

BALTIMORE – Mrs