WASHINGTON – Petty Officer 2nd Class David Sean Roddy was offered a temporary leave from Iraq to recuperate after seeing his partner blown up by a homemade bomb in late August

COCKEYSVILLE – Baltimore County Councilman Kevin Kamenetz held up a broken DVD-player he cheerfully described as the casualty of a recent encounter with his two-year-old son

ANNAPOLIS-Three environmental groups this week issued grave warnings about the threat global warming poses to Maryland, urging the Maryland Department of the Environment to establish a vehicle emissions reduction program they say would reduce greenhouse gases and other harmful toxins

BALTIMORE-Male and female brains really are different, due in part to the role of sex hormones each is secreting, researchers said at a conference on gender and pain held in Baltimore

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland students who want to be nurses may find it more and more difficult to find qualified people to teach them, a new report shows

WASHINGTON – Before Leslie Hammond asks her eighth-graders to divide negative 67

ANNAPOLIS-Why would a Chesapeake Bay restoration group whose goal is to improve the bay’s water quality give $50,000 to plant trees in a faraway city in mountainous Western Maryland?

“Planting trees in Cumberland,” answers Molly Alton Mullins, communications director for the Chesapeake Bay Trust

ANNAPOLIS – Officials of the company that made Maryland’s problem-plagued voting system promised legislators Wednesday that all 5,500 of the company’s electronic poll books will be fixed by Oct

ANNAPOLIS – A Democratic state senator who was trounced in his party’s primary when he ran for re-election is ready to give it another try — this time as a Republican

WASHINGTON – People collect lots of things — salt shakers, antiques, other inanimate objects — but when they start to collect animals by the hundreds, so many they’re unable to care for them, it crosses a line