CAMBRIDGE – Barbara Ennels Lake stood in the chilly one-room schoolhouse, looking beyond the buckets and tools that crowd the room now to a past when she learned to read and write

ANNAPOLIS – Child advocates are calling 1998 the best legislative session in memory, with passage of bills that upgrade standards and salaries for child welfare workers and make it easier to take children from abusive — even murderous — parents

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland business leaders said Friday that one of their few major losses in an otherwise “resounding session” is already coming back to hurt them

ANNAPOLIS – A divided Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled Thursday that Ocean City police violated Wayne Nelson Davis’ free-speech rights when they arrested him for telling a friend that two undercover officers might be “narcs

ANNAPOLIS – Baltimore County Executive C

ANNAPOLIS – Southern Maryland lawmakers this week wrapped up the “kind of session that you’d like to leave and face the voters” — unless the voters are farmers

ANNAPOLIS – In a session of legislative largesse, Howard County lawmakers secured at least $34 million in state funding for roads, schools, and the purchase of the historic Smith Farm

ANNAPOLIS – School construction, Pfiesteria piscicida, tax relief and the dairy compact topped central Maryland’s priorities this legislative session

ANNAPOLIS – Members of the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus said they managed to regroup from the early-session ouster of their leader, former Sen

ANNAPOLIS – Western Maryland lawmakers called the just-ended legislative session “a bang-up year” that included improved health care for the poor, a 5 percent income tax cut and passage of a bill to help state dairy farmers