BALTIMORE – Manipulating the pipette with gloved hands, the student compressed the instrument sending tumor DNA strands into a reaction liquid for duplication

ANNAPOLIS – A 250-foot-tall communications tower overlooking a Frederick County residential development can remain standing, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled Thursday

ANNAPOLIS – Every night, Maryland Senate President Thomas V

ANNAPOLIS – Wedged into the fork of Routes 450 and 648, just north of the Naval Academy Bridge, is a small and nondescript grassy hillside

WASHINGTON – A worst nightmare comes true each year for one out of every 200 Maryland income earners: the tax man comes knocking on the door

WESTMINSTER – Farmers on their way to Gettysburg for supplies would ride their horse and buggies past John Orendorff’s farmhouse, a grand three-story brick home with 15 rooms, a two- fireplace parlor and four balconies overlooking the rolling terrain

ELLICOTT CITY – Charles Ecker’s chances of overcoming Ellen Sauerbrey in Maryland’s 1998 GOP gubernatorial primary are sketchy, Maryland state political observers say

ANNAPOLIS – An Anne Arundel County judge erred when he restricted a father’s custody of his children because the father was gay, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled Wednesday

WASHINGTON – The outmoded computer printer writes only in black and white, prints excruciatingly slowly and emits a loud, high-pitched noise

WASHINGTON – Republican Rep