WASHINGTON – Abortions are more difficult to obtain than at any time since the Roe v

ANNAPOLIS – Citing a burgeoning school-age population, aging buildings and limited resources, Montgomery County officials gathered at the Statehouse Wednesday to plead for school construction money

ANNAPOLIS – Legislators should disclose their financial interests twice a year, and at the same time as lobbyists, a state delegate told a House committee during a Wednesday hearing

ANNAPOLIS – They told stories of art teachers on wheels and hallway chemical spills, of leaky schoolroom roofs, of students in portable classrooms

WASHINGTON – Seven of Maryland’s eight House members voted Tuesday in favor of sanctioning House Speaker Newt Gingrich for misconduct

WASHINGTON – A court order issued Sunday allowed a pro-life group to hold a demonstration on Pennsylvania Avenue during President Clinton’s Inaugural Parade

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals Tuesday threw a roadblock in front of hopes that Queen’s Chapel Road would reopen to thru traffic in the Prince George’s County community of University Park

ANNAPOLIS – After more than an hour of wrangling over numbers and percentages, the state Judicial Compensation Committee Tuesday recommended a $9,000 pay increase for state judges, including chief judges

ANNAPOLIS – For the third straight year, a phased-in 24 percent income tax cut tops the House Republican Caucus’ legislative agenda, members announced at a Tuesday press conference

WASHINGTON – Beulah Williams – a single mother with three daughters and a son – loved to make women’s Afrocentric clothes, baby’s baptism robes and children’s outfits and had long hoped to start her own business