Annapolis News

"YOU'RE going to want the jumbos, hon," my waitress said as she stood, pen poised over her pad, next to my unadorned pine picnic table on the crowded outdoor deck of Waterman's crab house .

It's that time of year: Local waterways are suffering from too much bacteria and too little oxygen.

Anthony Lamont Thompson is alive after a 15-year-old boy pointed a handgun at his chest and pulled the trigger - twice.

Two veteran gym teachers at Southern Middle School not only failed to protect a student from bullies, but actively participated in the heckling, according to a lawsuit filed against the county Board of Education.

Maryland will get more than $44 million in federal funds to spur development of affordable housing projects throughout the state that have been stalled because of the economic downtown, the U. S. Treasury Department announced Friday.

Annapolis officials are considering scaling back some of the parking fee increases just approved at four city-owned parking facilities, although some rates at the coveted Hillman garage downtown still could go up as much as 60 percent.

The dust may have settled after this year's budget battle over school funds, but Superintendent Kevin Maxwell still hasn't given up.

The state is attempting to buy up thousands of crabbing licenses from part-time watermen.

County residents looking for a cheaper way to get cigarettes and alcohol will be facing a smaller market after the state Comptroller's Office had a boom year in seizures.

A county jury will decide if a 5-year-old boy suffered three years ago when he drowned at the Crofton Country Club.

"Naval Academy Professor Challenges Rising Diversity," ran the headline in The Washington Post.

It has come to our attention at City Hall that false information on the proposed annexation of county property is being circulated.

The former managers of the city's landmark Market House must pay two former vendors almost $220,000 because they "negligently misrepresented" the abilities of the building's air-conditioning system, a county judge has ruled.

City work crews yesterday began removing temporary partitions as they prepare the troubled Market House for new tenants for the first time in nearly four years.

Allegations that poor tenants will be forced out of a redeveloped public housing project in downtown Annapolis could spur a federal discrimination lawsuit against the Annapolis Housing Authority, attorneys representing the tenants said.

It took Kevin Jackson two tries to get on the county Board of Education. He was nominated for the post last year, but didn't get the governor's appointment.

A key bill to allow the state's largest casino at Arundel Mills was withdrawn last night, but county politicians vow to resurrect it.

If you hadn't thought twice about dipping your toes in the cool waters of a local creek or the Chesapeake Bay, a new report might make you think again.

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