Bellavance Widow Testifies for Restricting Kids’ Tobacco Access

ANNAPOLIS – Elizabeth Bellavance stayed seated for five hours Thursday to spend three minutes asking a House committee to support several bills to discourage children from smoking

Glendening Outlines Gun Enforcement Strategy at Conference

COLLEGE PARK — With votes imminent on his gun-control legislation and the outcome still in doubt, Gov

Oyster Repletion Program in Danger of Ending?

ANNAPOLIS – Oyster spawning season is approaching, and with it comes the need to dredge and move old shells — part of a decades-old oyster repletion program

Editors: This is a shortened version of a story transmitted Tuesday.

WASHINGTON – For about 20 years, he has slept under the Capitol’s east steps, in a cardboard hut beneath a granite archway

Low-Income and Minority Home Buyers Helped With Home Financing

WASHINGTON – Pilot programs recently started in the District and Baltimore to help low-income and minority residents finance homes will soon be expanded to six other cities, officials announced Wednesday

COG Approves Recommendations to Improve Drinking Water Safety

WASHINGTON – The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments approved recommendations Wednesday to improve public health and drinking water

Bug Zapper Offers Help for Farmers, Relief for Cattle

WASHINGTON – Build a better fly trap and the cows will beat a path to your barn

County, City Officials React Favorably to Barry Downsizing Plan

WASHINGTON – Local government leaders Wednesday reacted favorably to D

Rape Suspects Can Cite Prior Offer of Sex for Drugs

ANNAPOLIS – While advocates for rape victims attacked a court ruling last week that a victim’s prior conversations with the defendant can be used against her in court, prosecutors said the damage was minimal, and one said it might even help