Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – The House Commerce and Government Matters Committee Friday recommended passage of a bill limiting the amount banks may charge customers who deposit bad checks

ANNAPOLIS — Public libraries these days face some hard choices: Do they buy more computers so people can surf the Internet or start a bookmobile program in poor neighborhoods?

Library representatives met with Eastern Shore lawmakers Friday to discuss these pressures

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland legislators are in engaged in a duel over the death penalty

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s Health Care Access and Cost Commission collects medical information from patients and compiles it into a database to determine costs of health care services

ANNAPOLIS – Consumers and store owners staged a take-off on the Boston Tea Party Thursday to protest bills allowing localities to increase the sales tax on home video rentals to 10 percent

ANNAPOLIS – School volunteers who are injured on the job are not entitled to weekly disability payments under the state workers’ compensation law, Court of Appeals ruled Thursday

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WASHINGTON – The Department of Transportation Wednesday proposed allotting $400 million for the construction of a new Woodrow Wilson Bridge – far short of the $1

WASHINGTON – Wearing a button with her murdered daughter’s picture on it, Connie Clery called upon Congress Wednesday to pass a bill making college disciplinary hearings involving criminal allegations open to the public

ANNAPOLIS – For 200 years, members of Maryland’s lower legislative house have been called “delegates