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SHERWOOD – From the sandy shores of Lowes Wharf Marina on a sunny spring morning, the view of the Chesapeake Bay couldn’t be clearer. Paul Zelinske, the owner of the marina, watches the boats sailing back and forth in the ...

SILVER SPRING — Optician Delmar Nelson sits alone in his office on a late winter afternoon. Just outside the door, rows of untouched eyeglasses sit in displays illuminated by yellow lights. No one has walked into his store for the ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Six miles outside of Annapolis lie the decaying bones of a dinosaur. They don’t belong to a prehistoric animal, but to Crownsville Hospital Center, a mostly vacant former asylum that costs the State of Maryland around a million ...

ANNAPOLIS — During Mat Rice’s time as a student at the Maryland School for the Blind, the disability advocate said he would work at a place openly referred to as “the workshop.” Rice, who has spastic cerebral palsy and is ...

ANNAPOLIS — Richard Thompson runs a business designing newspaper pages from his Calvert County home, but he can’t do all his work there. Recently, he had to to take his laptop to the library three miles up the road, download ...

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Maryland Democratic candidates Rep. Chris Van Hollen and Rep. Donna Edwards are statistically tied in the race to take over Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski's senate seat, according to an average of the latest polls from NBC4/Marist and The Washington Post/University of Maryland.

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland lawmakers this week voted to curb the sale of certain pest control products to home gardeners after reviewing studies that point to the harmful effects some lawn chemicals have on bees and other pollinators. The legislation prohibits ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A bill that would require Maryland institutions of higher education to revamp their sexual assault policies will not receive a vote this year, setting up a debate between university officials and activists about how to address the problem ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The 2016 session of the Maryland General Assembly may end in April the way it began in January: with veto override votes. Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, announced Tuesday that he would veto a bill changing the composition ...