ANNAPOLIS – You’d want to think twice before tossing a tissue onto the highway or sneaking out to dump a sofa into a streambed if a bill in the state Legislature becomes law

ANNAPOLIS – House Judiciary Committee members heard testimony Tuesday on two bills aimed at preventing crime – using the death penalty to deter drug murders and seizing cars to deter prostitution

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals Tuesday upheld a ruling that a Glen Burnie convenience store was not responsible for moth larva found in a Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Almond Bar by an Odenton woman

WASHINGTON – Community activists and lawmakers are applauding the Pentagon’s plan to get rid of millions of pounds of World War II-era mustard gas at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in northeastern Maryland

WASHINGTON – The FBI may need to conduct electronic surveillance on as many as 890 telephone calls of Marylanders on any given day, an FBI study says

ANNAPOLIS – Reduce the personal income tax, lift regulations and improve the skills of the work force if you want to make Maryland more attractive to high-tech business, economic experts told lawmakers Friday

ANNAPOLIS – Making criminals serve their full sentences should be a priority in restructuring the state’s sentencing guidelines

ANNAPOLIS – Each day, Sandra Bell deals with bandages and ice packs, inhalers and tissues

It must be something in Silver Spring’s water

ANNAPOLIS – Southern Marylanders came with hats in hand to the Statehouse Wednesday, pleading for school construction money to serve their fast-growing counties