ANNAPOLIS – The death rate for African Americans is higher than that for whites throughout Maryland, where the population of blacks and other minorities continues to grow, and combined may constitute half the state’s population by 2010

WASHINGTON – Tucked inside the Comcast Center at the University of Maryland, College Park is a plaque honoring Athletics Director Debbie Yow that reads, “I want it to be that if you compete at Maryland and stay at Maryland, you graduate

WASHINGTON – Three years ago local environmentalists and farmers pressured James Warren to offer biodiesel at his Berlin gas station

WASHINGTON – Historical romance author Janet Mullany has to stop laughing at the idea of being a romance expert before she can talk about Valentine’s Days with her husband of 11 years, Steve

ANNAPOLIS – Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan pledged Thursday that if he is elected governor he will add 1,000 officers to local police forces

WASHINGTON – Within four years, a Maryland biotech company is hoping to turn smallpox from a terrible disease into a treatable illness

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland lawmakers pushed for action Wednesday on legislation that would ease the property tax burden on senior citizens and low-income families, who they say are being hurt by the state’s skyrocketing real estate values

ANNAPOLIS – Those tiny motorized minibikes that dart through traffic and up and down alleys in Baltimore may be coming in for some regulation if legislation in the Maryland General Assembly is approved

ANNAPOLIS – The two-and-a-half-week quarantine of all horses stabled at Pimlico Race Course due to concerns over equine herpes was lifted Wednesday morning, freeing around 425 Pimlico horses to race at Laurel Park

ANNAPOLIS- Maryland consumers may soon be able to put a freeze on their personal credit reports, making it harder for identity thieves to make fraudulent purchases, if a set of bills backed by state Attorney General J