ANNAPOLIS – Worried citizens and home builders locked horns Thursday in the House of Delegates Economic Affairs Committee over a bill that would require developers to warn prospective buyers about environmental hazards near newly built houses

ANNAPOLIS – You’re waiting for a fax so you can finish a report that was due an hour ago

ANNAPOLIS – Before she dies, one of every two women gets osteoporosis, as does one of every five men

ANNAPOLIS – In a crime that underscores the problem of data security in an Information Age, technologically savvy drug dealers are reaching into the airwaves to steal cellular telephone service

ANNAPOLIS – Students between the ages of 15 and 17 who are consistently truant could have their driver’s licenses suspended under a bill before a Senate committee

ANNAPOLIS – If you have driven over the Kent Narrows Bridge, you have probably seen phragmites

WASHINGTON – The health care needs of Hispanics, blacks and other minorities are not being addressed in the congressional budget debate, a Johns Hopkins University professor said during a recent conference

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals Tuesday upheld the conviction of a Landover man in an April 10, 1994 murder there, rejecting his claim that he acted in self-defense

ANNAPOLIS – The well-publicized police chases of the past week resonated through the House of Delegates’ Judiciary Committee Tuesday as members examined a bill to substantially raise the penalty for motorists who attempt to elude police

WASHINGTON – Maryland and 19 other states have joined with the Federal Trade Commission to pull the plug on high-tech telemarketing scams that have been ripping off unwary investors, the director of the FTC’s consumer protection branch announced Tuesday