ANNAPOLIS – Jessica Meredith Xavier, 44, had her “re- assignment of sex surgery” in September 1993

BALTIMORE – A coalition of environmental and taxpayer groups thinks the government should stop worrying about reforming social programs and take on an even bigger budget drain — corporate welfare

ANNAPOLIS – Casino opponents who want to help the horse industry are now looking to other programs to help keep it alive

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ANNAPOLIS – Six Eastern Shore school superintendents told lawmakers Thursday that schools are increasingly overburdened by state regulations and social problems that take money away from education

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WASHINGTON – Maryland and more than 30 other states announced Thursday they will sue the Department of Energy over its December announcement that it cannot meet a January 1998 deadline to start disposing of high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants

ANNAPOLIS – Delegates supporting the proposed $254 million settlement to the Baltimore City schools responded Thursday to the rumblings of other counties’ officials, who asked what the bill does for their jurisdictions

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ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals Thursday upheld a Harford County Circuit Court ruling that Port Deposit and Samuel Maranto, the town’s former police chief, can be sued by an Oregon man who claims his constitutional rights were violated in an arrest more than four years ago