Deer management options available to state officials range from hunting to birth control

WASHINGTON – The medical community is torn over whether marijuana has medical value, agreeing only that the current body of research is scant

WASHINGTON – Passage this month of initiatives in California and Arizona legalizing marijuana use for medical purposes has spurred an advocacy group to target Maryland and other states for similar measures

WASHINGTON – During the three months Robert Kampia spent locked in prison, he never bought “extra food or toys” at the commissary, and he did not let himself watch MTV

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals Friday upheld the first-degree murder conviction of Curtis Aden Jamison in the 1993 strangulation of a 15-year-old Columbia girl

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Calvert County officials have declared 1997 the Year of the Family because some members of the county’s League of Women Voters thought children in their communities were spending too much time on their own

ANNAPOLIS – The Chesapeake Bay Commission is making sure travelers on the major highways to Ocean City get a geography and environmental lesson with new road signs marking the boundaries of the bay watershed

WASHINGTON – A national civic and civil rights group called on President Clinton Tuesday to help mend relations between police and minority communities