Maryland News

It is time to retire the term "mentally retarded" once and for all. Mentally retarded once referred to a specific set of medical and developmental conditions.

"Dear Santa" letters are being shredded at post offices around the country -- and on Staten Island -- that have opted out of the traditional toy-giving program, now nearly non-existent because of strict guidelines to protect kids from sexual predators and the Post Office from possible legal action.

Jobs data will dominate Friday's session, with little set to draw investors' attention away from the monthly nonfarm payrolls report.

Diamond Pet Foods recalled select bags of dry cat food Tuesday after 21 reports of health problems in cats.

Teen Dating Violence is a growing problem across the country and around the world.

Cigarettes contain hundreds of different strains of bacteria , including many human pathogens that may play a role in lung diseases and respiratory infections, new research shows.

EVERY few years, college presidents feel a need to go public with their concerns over the commercialization of intercollegiate athletics.

Although milk prices paid to area farmers have been on the increase, they are still below the cost of production, industry officials said.

Now you want to compare New York to Maryland? You need to get out a map and check the size of the two and the population count before you go comparing salaries.

Ports America won a contract to operate Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal under a 50-year lease that commits the company to build a container berth with 50-foot water depth.

The Staten Island Chamber of Commerce recently named Geoff Kravitz as its government affairs director.

Federal prosecutors have charged more than two dozen people with scheming to steal millions from a telephone program for the deaf.

The Tobias Harris recruiting saga is humming along at about 250 rpms right now. Harris, for those who don't know, is a 6-foot-8 senior forward from Long Island and a consensus Top 10 player in the Class of 2010.

In a $5 million counter suit filed against TLC on Nov. 13, Jon Gosselin claimed his fame "makes it impossible" to find a regular job, the New York Daily News reports.

Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the moves show that President Barack Obama 's slogan for change was deceitful and he was no different from his predecessor George W. Bush.

Prosecutors on Thursday filed a civil complaint in federal court against the Alavi Foundation, seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets.

The move to seize assets held by the New York-based Alavi Foundation will cripple the charity's work and put the government in the awkward position of potentially shutting down the houses of worship, which occupy buildings and land that Alavi owns.

Federal prosecutors are preparing to seize the Islamic Education Center, a grade school and mosque in Houston .

Federal prosecutors say two people have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sex trafficking of minors in Maryland, New York and Washington, D.C. Twenty-five-year-old Byron Thompson and 29-year-old Lea Bell, both of Reisterstown, were also ordered at sentencing Thursday to register as sex offenders.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine.