WASHINGTON – A federal judge has blocked a Baltimore County zoning law that would have made it more difficult to set up methadone drug treatment clinics in the county

ANNAPOLIS – Tuesday’s primary election, plus attrition, means morethan 20 percent of both General Assembly chambers, including keycommittee chairmen, will be new in January

WASHINGTON – The 4th District GOP primary was too close to callWednesday, with perennial challenger John Kimble leading Floyd Andersonby just 62 votes out of more than 9,300 cast, according to unofficialstate returns

BALTIMORE – Baltimore Mayor Martin J

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s July unemployment rate tied the jobless ratefor the same time last year, a signal the state’s economy is continuingits recovery

ANNAPOLIS – One of the nation’s largest labor unions is so adamantthat its chosen Charles County Democratic primary candidate become thevictor that it is urging members to “single-shot” Jim Jarboe of La Platafor one of three delegate slots in Tuesday’s election

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has ordered Maryland to providelong- term space in the Port of Baltimore to a former naval hospital shipthat will be a floating residential drug rehabilitation treatmentfacility for about 300 women

WASHINGTON – Maryland manufacturers released significantly fewer toxic chemicals into the environment in 1999 than they did a decade before, according to the latest statistics available from the Environmental Protection Agency

WASHINGTON – The federal government spent $48

WASHINGTON – They are large, ravenous, semi-aquatic, nocturnal, orange- toothed rodents destroying marsh vegetation and Maryland officials would shoot them all dead if they could