Fort Meade may gain up to 10,000 new jobs
Maryland officials are advising local governments to expect as many as 10,000 new jobs at Fort Meade within seven years as the military consolidates bases and the ranks of the...
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Ecumenical outreach was part of vision
Pope John Paul II prayed in a synagogue and also met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. He returned the relics of Orthodox saints and apologized for past church-inspired wrongs such...
State social services chief defends agency’s workers
The head of the state's social services agency defended yesterday his workers' performance in attempting to protect the children of Keisha Carr, who was convicted of killing one infant son...
Regulations aim to protect Md. wells from fuel additive
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. proposed regulations yesterday aimed at preventing residential drinking water from being contaminated by potentially cancer-causing gasoline additives that leak from pipes beneath service stations. Harford...
Md. aims to stop deaths of children
During an intense grilling by legislators yesterday, state child welfare officials said they're making incremental changes to prevent more child abuse deaths but added that legal and financial restrictions keep...
Child welfare system faulted
Federal auditors examining Maryland's child welfare system are criticizing the state for having one of the worst computer systems in the nation for tracking abused and neglected children. "Can we...
City, state grapple over care of family
After being called by a concerned hospital worker, the Baltimore Department of Social Services should have dispatched a caseworker to investigate a 17-year-old girl who had a history of child...
Report on abuse got no response
The latest case of fatal child abuse in Baltimore is raising another round of questions about how the system attempts to protect children from their abusive parents. One-month-old twins died...
O’Malley rebuts ‘English’ remarks
Leading a rising chorus of bilingual outrage, Mayor Martin O'Malley delivered a pointed rebuttal yesterday - in Spanish - to recent remarks by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Comptroller...
Gathering of ‘true family’
For 37 years, Thomas Pierce gave his wife a rose on the 13th day of each month - a monthly thanks for the day they married, Aug. 13, 1966. On...