Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – State officials Wednesday will kick off a $500,000 advertising campaign telling Marylanders that this summer’s Pfiesteria outbreak has not compromised the safety of Chesapeake Bay seafood

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court let stand a Maryland court ruling that bans police officers from detaining passengers in traffic stops

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Appeals, splitting 4-3, ruled Tuesday that evidence of prior child abuse is admissible in cases against allegedly abusive parents

WASHINGTON – A new Clinton administration plan will ensure cleaner air in Maryland by requiring the state and 21 others to reduce their smog-causing emissions by one third, officials said Friday

WASHINGTON – Congress is giving money to improve three Western Maryland highways, expand Metro in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and extend commuter rail service into Frederick

FREDERICK, Md

GREENBELT – Annie Halley thought she was in heaven on a fall day 60 years ago when, as a young housewife in the midst of the Depression, she stepped into her new home – a tiny white two- bedroom house in Greenbelt

GREENBELT – By the time a clerk rolls an overflowing two- tiered document cart into the courtroom, a dozen lawyers and about 50 clients are already milling about – an hour and a half before visiting Judge L

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s oldest lighthouse, a one-time Western Maryland resort town and a law office that survived the Salisbury fire of 1886 now share a common factor with Graceland and San Simeon: They are in the National Register of Historic Places

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