ANNAPOLIS – Opponents of gay marriage failed again Friday to get the House of Delegates to vote on the issue

ANNAPOLIS – This week, the Maryland Court of Appeals sorted out arguments over the forensic validity of testing the lead in bullets, over requiring translation of jury waivers into Korean, and over the question of whether arbitration precludes a lawsuit

ANNAPOLIS – The outbreak of the equine herpes virus at Pimlico Race Course – home of the Preakness Stakes – may now be spreading to other Maryland thoroughbred facilities, even as the scheduled lifting of the quarantine at Pimlico draws closer

ANNAPOLIS – Portable toilets are a fact of life

ANNAPOLIS – Hours after a new study found it would be nearly impossible to implement paper-trail voting machines by the September elections, Maryland’s chief elections administrator defended the current machines as a matter of financial necessity

ANNAPOLIS – The Republican-led campaign for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage suffered a major setback Thursday, when a House committee killed legislation which was intended to put the measure before the voters in November

BALTIMORE – Standing on a Baltimore street corner near the set of the HBO series “The Wire,” Gov

WASHINGTON – Maryland is asking the federal government to reimburse its costs for trying to straighten out difficulties with the new senior citizen prescription medication plan called Medicare Part D

ANNAPOLIS – Popular court drama shows may have some new competition in Maryland: Broadcast coverage of some criminal trials

ANNAPOLIS – The unusually high tax revenues that will finance Gov