Appeals Court Won’t Interfere With University Tenure Decision

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals overturned a lower-court decision Thursday and ruled that the University of Baltimore did not break contract or deal unfairly with a professor when it denied her tenure

Think Tank Gives Glendening a C on Fiscal Policy Report Card

WASHINGTON – Maryland Gov

Court Says Woman Can Sue Police in Brutal Dog Attack

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court ruled a Silver Spring woman can sue the city of Takoma Park and Prince George’s County for being mauled by a police dog during a 1995 search of her home

Maryland Counts Down to Millenium

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland officials began counting down Wednesday to the year 2000, unveiling a 9-foot clock, describing a series of celebrations and announcing a contest to name the state’s millennium mascot

Bay May Claim Bits of Prehistoric Maryland From Tilghman Island

TILGHMAN ISLAND – Darrin Lowery held a black bit of stone that he found on this Tilghman Island beach 23 years ago

Sauerbrey Bases ’98 Run for Governor on Lessons of ’94 Loss

CHESTERTOWN – She has been running 15 minutes late all day, but Ellen Sauerbrey still takes time to stop and greet everyone she meets, whether they’re the waitresses at a retirement brunch, community business leaders or just people on the street

Rehrmann Rebuffs Party — Again — to Take on Glendening

ELLICOTT CITY – Eileen Rehrmann bucked her party eight years ago, unseating a Democratic Harford County executive who she said could not beat a Republican challenger for the job

Children’s Health Law Will Change Under Little-Known Compromise

ANNAPOLIS – A new law that will provide medical insurance for 60,000 children and pregnant women from low-income families will likely undergo significant changes in just its second year of operation

Grand Hampton Mansion Enriched by Details of Ordinary Life

TOWSON – Looking up a sloping, green hill from the edge of the road, the pale-pink stucco Hampton Mansion inspires awe

Boaters Urged to Wear Life Jackets — But Not to Tie One On

ANNAPOLIS – If you were involved in a boating accident last year, chances are it was on a July Sunday in Anne Arundel County waters while at the helm of a jet ski