CHEVY CHASE – On an evening in mid-August, when Jeff Stein’s campaign fliers began to disappear fast from their table at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in Gaithersburg, the Republican candidate for the 8th Congressional District first began to think he could win the next month’s primary

ANNAPOLIS – Salisbury University wants to be the first public college in Maryland to make the SAT optional, with an eye to the growing pool of minority, immigrant and first-in-family applicants that are changing the face of Maryland’s college population

GREENBELT – Republicans, reeling from the fallout of a fellow GOPer’s conduct with underage pages, are trying to tarnish Democratic candidates by taking misleading jabs at Maryland Rep

WASHINGTON – On a Sunday afternoon a month before the midterm elections, most candidates scrambled to shake hands with voters and get their hands on the latest poll numbers

ANNAPOLIS – During his years as a nursing assistant at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Jim Corwin was always willing to roll up his sleeves and do whatever it was that needed doing — even if it meant changing bedpans

WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives was in session, and Rep

WASHINGTON – When John White, the Republican candidate for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District, was a high-school intern for Democratic Rep

WASHINGTON – Sen

ANNAPOLIS – The Court of Appeals Thursday ruled that about 3,000 children and pregnant woman who are recent immigrants should keep receiving health care while a lower court decides whether it is constitutional for the state to cut off their Medicaid benefits

ANNAPOLIS – A special joint committee of the General Assembly Thursday approved a 135-page report that criticizes Gov