ANNAPOLIS – The midshipmen of the Naval Academy Drum and Bugle Corps are fine-tuning their act, checking their uniforms and giving their instruments a last polish for the annual Interservice Drum and Bugle Corps Championship Saturday morning

BALTIMORE – Matt Kelly described the beginning of events seven years ago that nearly killed him and two other people:

“I started getting flu-like symptoms — dizzy, vomiting, that sort of thing,” said the 34-year-old Hamilton resident

WASHINGTON – Republican Rep

ANNAPOLIS – The nation’s biggest tobacco firms, led by Philip Morris Inc

WASHINGTON – The House approved $3 million Wednesday to fight Pfiesteria – the third and latest federal effort to secure money to combat the fish-killing microbe

ANNAPOLIS – Montgomery County will get about $1 million for three new community parks and an expanded conservation area surrounding the Upper Paint Branch, the Board of Public Works announced Wednesday

WASHINGTON – Federal workers will pay an average of 15

WASHINGTON – Women entrepreneurs continue to have problems in getting loans and government contracts even though they own 35 percent of U

TOWSON – In the 1995-’96 school year, 23,647 students were suspended for physically attacking fellow students and 1,697 for attacking teachers, according to the Maryland State Department of Education

WASHINGTON – Crime in Maryland dipped 3