WASHINGTON – Michael Tabor balanced his conscience against his farm subsidy and finally decided his conscience was worth more

WASHINGTON – Maryland farmers got $318

WASHINGTON – Half of the state’s counties are unlikely to meet one or more tougher air pollution standards that the Environmental Protection Agency will soon impose, according to a report released Thursday by a national coalition of environmental groups

WASHINGTON – Recent rainfall in Maryland has made fields wet enough for farmers to plant this spring, but whether there will be enough water for anything to grow this summer remains to be seen, officials said Wednesday

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland House of Delegates members voted their quorum call with red lights instead of the usual green and the Senate prayer was more about the morals of basketball than Easter season symbolism as a mild Terp fever struck the General Assembly Tuesday

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court’s ruling that Maryland prison guards did not use excessive force when they repeatedly sprayed an inmate with pepper spray, shackled him in his underwear and locked him away in an isolation cell for two days

WASHINGTON – A federal court judge has ruled that a Montgomery County police detective acted reasonably when he arrested two gay Germantown men who had secretly videotaped a teen-age neighbor having sex with their dogs in their basement

WASHINGTON – Maryland will not completely meet new federal air pollution controls set to be implemented as a result of a D

WASHINGTON – Nearly two decades after the stabbing death of an elderly Baltimore couple, a federal appeals court has reinstated the death sentence of John Booth-El, who has three times been sentenced to death in the 1983 murders

WASHINGTON – The authors of a new report on air pollution said Marylanders should be concerned that Midwestern power plants dominate the list of polluters, since breezes from those states carry the harmful emissions to Maryland