ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland pension system overpaid 45 retired non-faculty employees at the Maryland School for the Deaf by a total of $487,000 over 22 years

WASHINGTON – Experts agree that the benefits outweigh the risks when it comes to the new swine flu vaccines, expected to be available in mid-October

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s Democratic-dominated congressional delegation sang the praises of President Obama’s health care speech Wednesday night, calling it “bold” and “powerful

WASHINGTON – Environmental activists pretended to build tiny wind turbines in the Hart Senate Office Building here Tuesday to call attention to clean energy legislation on the same day senators were set to return from their August recess

ANNAPOLIS – Government agencies across Maryland will be closed Friday, the first of five designated furlough days for state employees designed to help compensate for a nearly $700 million predicted budget shortfall

BALTIMORE – Baltimore’s art institutions have had to cut their budgets, but they’re hoping their audiences won’t notice

BALTIMORE – Two girls are first onto the playground

BALTIMORE – For many residents, Belair-Edison is less like a city neighborhood and more like a small town

BALTIMORE – As Baltimore’s unemployment rate rose, many people headed to the library

BALTIMORE – Four hundred perennials aren’t cheap and they’re not likely to come from any city budget, but Latrobe Park in Locust Point is filled with them