Jim Haner

On the eve of a major enforcement campaign against scofflaw landlords who violate city and state lead paint safety regulations, officials reported yesterday that prosecutions have already more than doubled...

New regulations aimed at cutting lead paint poisoning cases are placing landlords under increasing pressure to clean up their properties statewide, or face heavy fines and lost revenue, officials said...

SECTION: TELEGRAPH ,1A In a city where more than 20,000 children have been exposed to brain- damaging doses of lead paint in the past two decades, officials acknowledged last week...

It happens an average of three times a day in Baltimore -- an urgent phone call or knock at the door, a fearful dash to the doctor's office, followed by...

On paper, it appears to be one of the most hazardous states in America for a child to grow up in -- Maryland, a place so full of lead-filled houses...

Vowing to end the scourge of childhood lead poisoning in Maryland, Gov. Parris N. Glendening and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley pledged yesterday to pour $50 million over the next three...

Two new studies on the effects of lead exposure to be released this week suggest that the toxin commonly found in household paints made before 1960 may stunt normal brain...