ANNAPOLIS – The nation’s biggest tobacco firms, led by Philip Morris Inc

WASHINGTON – The House approved $3 million Wednesday to fight Pfiesteria – the third and latest federal effort to secure money to combat the fish-killing microbe

ANNAPOLIS – Montgomery County will get about $1 million for three new community parks and an expanded conservation area surrounding the Upper Paint Branch, the Board of Public Works announced Wednesday

WASHINGTON – Federal workers will pay an average of 15

WASHINGTON – Women entrepreneurs continue to have problems in getting loans and government contracts even though they own 35 percent of U

TOWSON – In the 1995-’96 school year, 23,647 students were suspended for physically attacking fellow students and 1,697 for attacking teachers, according to the Maryland State Department of Education

WASHINGTON – Crime in Maryland dipped 3

COLLEGE PARK – Comparing the tempestuous period before the 1970s Camp David Accords to the current unrest in the Middle East, Israeli President Ezer Weizman Tuesday called upon the leaders of Arab countries to join the long journey started by the late Anwar Sadat

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s senators were on the losing side of a drive Tuesday to change the way federal candidates raise money

ANNAPOLIS – The Mid-Atlantic’s horseshoe crab population, depended upon by the medical testing industry and migrant birds in search of food, may be overfished, leading to a species- threatening decline, says a former Maryland state senator