Maryland

Lawmakers Assured Coppin Mistakes Won’t Happen Again

ANNAPOLIS – University officials assured lawmakers Thursday that there will be “no questions” about future contracting procedures like those that swirled around Coppin State College and former Sen

Lawmaker Says `Tattered’ Teachers Don’t Make the Grade

ANNAPOLIS – Some teachers need to class up their acts, lawmakers and students told the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday

Panel Seeks Hefty Raise for Governor, Other Top Officials

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s governor already makes the third- highest salary in the nation, but a state commission said he is overdue for a raise that would make him the highest paid

Jailed Dad Can’t be Made to Pay Child Support, Court Rules

ANNAPOLIS – The Court of Special Appeals on Wednesday ordered a new hearing for a father who was billed for five years of child support that accrued while he was in prison

Court Upholds Mandatory 25-Year Sentence for Career Burglar

ANNAPOLIS – A Maryland appeals court Wednesday upheld the mandatory 25-year jail term for a burglar who was sentenced just one day before lawmakers moved to relax the “three strikes, you’re out” law that put him behind bars

State’s Share of Tobacco Settlement Shrinking

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland could wind up with $386

Lawmakers Aim to Make Harassment by E-Mail a Felony

ANNAPOLIS – For more than two decades it has been a crime in Maryland to harass someone over the telephone

Bill Targets `Social Promotion’ of Unprepared Students

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland schools need strict standards for passing students up a grade instead of using promotions “as a means of getting them out of the way,” a lawmaker argued Tuesday

Couple Fights Murderer for Custody of His Kids

ANNAPOLIS – Charles Hicks stabbed his wife, Nancy Klotz, 34 times while their 2-year-old son watched in their South Baltimore home in 1996