Same-sex couples have the same right to marry as interracial heterosexual couples, Virginia's attorney general said Friday in papers urging an appellate court to uphold a judge's ruling that the state's gay marriage ban is unconstitutional.

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Drivers will get the slightest of breaks on gasoline prices this summer, according to the Energy Department.

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The former leader of a charitable foundation in Turkey, who now lives in Florida, has filed suit against the Maryland publisher of a book about a Turkish religious leader now living in Pennsylvania. Also named as a defendant is the book’s author — a human rights attorney in Texas.

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Three million Americans signed up for Medicaid under President Barack Obama's new health care law as of the end of February, the administration said Friday, offering its first full accounting of how much the safety-net health program has grown since implementation of the law.

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The committee fine-tuning Maryland's budget has allocated $10 million to have attorneys staff initial bail hearings during the next fiscal year.

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Restrictions on the shackling of pregnant incarcerated women during labor and delivery have been passed by the Maryland General Assembly.

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A measure to raise Maryland's minimum wage has moved a step further.

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Sen. Robert A. “Bobby” Zirkin on Thursday called for an indefinite hold on his proposed constitutional amendment to undo a Maryland high court ruling that people have a right to counsel at initial bail hearings before court commissioners, saying he remains confident the lawmakers will vote to preserve Maryland’s two-tier system of pretrial hearings at reasonable cost to the state.

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A measure to raise the minimum wage in Maryland continues to move forward.

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Truven Health Analytics, of Ann Arbor, Mich., a provider of information, analytic tools, benchmarks and services to the health care industry, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said they are collaborating in the establishment of the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.

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