ANNAPOLIS – Judges can accept plea bargains even if it means a repeat offender will escape mandatory minimum sentences imposed under the state’s subsequent-offender law, a divided Maryland Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday

ANNAPOLIS – Southern Maryland’s population grew by 18

UPPER MARLBORO – Joe Duvall stood in a frigid warehouse filled with the pungent smell of tobacco and assessed the acre of brown, leafy bundles stretched out behind him

ANNAPOLIS – Which is more scandalous, the fact that state lawmakers are betting on the NCAA tournament, or the fact that they are not picking the University of Maryland Terrapins to win?

“I’m picking the (University of North Carolina) Tar Heels,” said Del

ANNAPOLIS – Lawmakers and reproductive rights groups expressed fears Friday that the trend toward mergers of secular and religious-based hospitals could jeopardize women’s access to full health-care services, like abortions and birth control

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland fire and rescue crews will have one less “bio-headache” when American Type Culture Collection moves to Northern Virginia this month and takes its store of germs with it

ANNAPOLIS – Mary Torresse put together all five weddings at the U

ANNAPOLIS – The Rockville company that sold cultures of anthrax and the bubonic plague to two Nevada men recently is moving its 230 high-tech jobs to Northern Virginia this month

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s public records laws need to be beefed up to ensure that “what’s reasonably accessible is given to us,” media representatives told a House committee Thursday

ANNAPOLIS – Some of the state’s youngest residents stood confidently in front of a Senate committee Thursday to speak on behalf of one of Maryland’s oldest residents