Pharmacy’s New Face: Asian, African – and Female

BALTIMORE – The lobby of the beige brick building on Pine Street is alive with color: showy African gowns printed in gold, black, red and green vie for prominence with embroidered Mexican blouses and Brazilian soccer jerseys in blinding yellow

Cummings, Others Call for Solutions to Poverty

WASHINGTON – Black and poverty are too often synonymous, and the nation needs an agenda of new policies to defeat poverty for everyone, said the participants at the Poverty, Race and Policy Forum organized by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Wednesday

New Surgical Center a Technological Cut Above the Rest

BALTIMORE – The movie magic that allowed Gollum to lurch across the screen in the Lord of the Rings films or capture the great ape’s naturalistic movements in the remake of King Kong is now being used in operating room research and training

Lanham Co. Keeps Up National Tree’s Appearances

WASHINGTON – There was the year when the top went out and the year when only the top was lit

Prestigious Committee Vacancies Attract Maryland Congressmen

WASHINGTON – As senior members of Maryland’s delegation in the House of Representatives leave their spots on exclusive committees, some of the state’s junior members are jockeying to keep those sweet seats in state hands

‘Sweet 16’ Calls Mikulski No. 1

WASHINGTON – On a mid-November afternoon, the women of the United States Senate filed into Sen

^Salvation Army’s ‘Feedmore’ Van Brings Food, Hope to Homeless

BALTIMORE – The air temperature is dropping quickly around the Salvation Army distribution center on Buena Vista Road, where Frank and Betty Russell stand hatless and gloveless, waiting for the food distribution van in which they have volunteered every Tuesday night for the past fifteen years

As Development Encroaches, Bel Air’s Beloved School Threatened

BEL AIR – Among the fast food restaurants, department stores and gas stations that have sprung up everywhere in this rapidly developing suburb of Baltimore, locals can point out the few remaining landmarks that speak of the town’s history

State Dems Consider New Bill on Election Fraud

WASHINGTON – Maryland Democratic leaders are considering introducing new legislation to handle “deceptive fraud” occurring close to or on Election Day in the next Maryland General Assembly, said David Paulson, communications director of the Maryland Democratic Party