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Officials at Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources want you to be careful with those jetpacks.

Governor Martin O’Malley met with a group of Maryland faith leaders yesterday to try to come up with a way to shelter some of the Central American...

The Johns Hopkins Health System will pay $190 million to former patients of a gynecologist who used a small camera to secretly film examinations,...

Does a single bad act obliterate the good that a person has done over a period of time?

Maryland added 7,700 jobs to its rolls in June, but the state’s unemployment rate went up two tenths of a percent. Plus, a year after his death,...

U.S. Appeals Court Deals Blow To Obama's Health Law

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday dealt a significant blow to the Affordable Care Act, when it threw out an IRS regulation that governs subsidies. In...
U.K. Orders Inquiry Into Ex-KGB Spy Litvinenko's Death

Britain has ordered a public inquiry into the death in 2006 of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko by radiation poisoning. In a statement to...
States Experiment With Health Savings Accounts For Medicaid

If all goes according to plan, next year many Arkansas Medicaid beneficiaries will be required to make monthly contributions to so-called Health...
The Immigrant Kids Have Health Issues — But Not The Ones You'd Think

Close to 60,000 children have crossed illegally into the U.S. since last October. They've sparked a crisis. But is it a humanitarian crisis or a...
Detroit Pensioners Approve City's Bankruptcy Plan

Detroit moved one step closer toward bankruptcy after crossing a major hurdle on Monday. With a large margin, retired police and firefighters...