Judge backs state on license denial
The state Department of Human Resources' plan to deny Evershine Residential Services a license to care for troubled youths has been backed by an administrative law judge who said the...
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U.S. government purchases $100 million stockpile of avian flu vaccine
WASHINGTON - The federal government is buying $100 million of avian flu vaccine in the first step toward building a stockpile that would protect 20 million Americans from an outbreak...
State to close chain of group homes for youths
Maryland officials announced yesterday that they would shut down children's group homes run by a company whose executive director expensed Caribbean cruises, luxury SUVs and meals while residents endured what...
NIH worker accused in Fla. anthrax threat
An employee at the National Institutes of Health was arrested yesterday, accused of making an anthrax threat against an assessor's office in Florida with which she was having a property...
Neighbors describe their daily fears about group home residents
Until the group home moved into her southeastern Baltimore County neighborhood, Dot Horrocks had never felt so afraid. Teenage boys living in the privately run facility have, she said, peeked...
State leaders object to plan moving military planes, jobs
Maryland leaders largely support the Pentagon's military base relocation plan that would bring thousands of jobs to the Baltimore area, but they intend to sound off today about the part...
New programs for Hickey youths called inadequate
Many of the programs that will take in the juvenile delinquents scheduled to leave the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School over the next several months lack the ability to adequately...
Administration opposes merging oversight of group homes
Ehrlich administration officials rejected yesterday a reform proposal to merge the scattered oversight of privately run group homes into a single agency, arguing that it is better to maintain the...
Group-home oversight a ‘disaster,’ senators say
Lawmakers assailed the state's oversight of privately run group homes for troubled youths yesterday as a "disaster" and called on Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. to work with them to...
Legislators favor single agency to oversee Md. group homes
Oversight of privately run group homes for Maryland's troubled children, a responsibility now divided among several state agencies, should be consolidated, a growing number of lawmakers say. "We have to...