Brian E Frosh

The special committee investigating Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s hiring and firing practices will select its outside counsel today from five finalists, three of whom practice in Baltimore and two in Washington. "I think we have a lot of highly...

Democratic lawmakers reviewing Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s personnel practices said yesterday that they want to hear more from Joseph F. Steffen Jr., the former Ehrlich aide who said last weekend he was instructed by top administration officials to...

In the continuing verbal tussle over an impending legislative investigation into Ehrlich administration personnel practices, a Montgomery County delegate demanded yesterday that the governor's chief counsel recuse himself from the proceedings. Del. Peter...

Several state legislators said yesterday that they are drafting legislation to change Maryland's arcane ground rent system, including bills to prevent homes from being seized over missed rent payments and to ban the creation of new land leases. "We're...

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. suggested yesterday that the General Assembly abandon its probe into his administration's firing practices and instead work with him on a bipartisan study of state personnel law. Such a commission of legislators, administration...

After two years of hefty premium increases that touched off threats of a doctor exodus in Maryland and led to a legislative special session, the state's largest malpractice insurer said it does not need a rate increase for next year, leading some to...

In Annapolis tradition, legislative committees usually schedule hearings on bills dealing with similar topics on the same day. But yesterday's agenda in the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee raised eyebrows in Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s...

Two-thirds of Baltimore's City Council agreed last night to sponsor hastily resurrected legislation to prevent homeowners from losing their homes over unpaid water bills, all but assuring its swift passage. City officials, meanwhile, mulled the...

Second of three parts Maryland's official Web site on physicians shows no malpractice claims history for Dr. Willie C. Blair, a Greenbelt surgeon. But that picture is incomplete. An Internet site run by the medical board in Virginia, where Blair also...

Dozens of Maryland's largest holders of ground rents sued the state yesterday, seeking compensation that could exceed $400 million, contending that ground rent reform laws effectively seized their property. The 23-page lawsuit, filed in Anne Arundel...

Maryland's prisons chief ordered a Jessup prison put on lockdown yesterday after the fatal stabbing of a 26-year-old inmate - the latest in a series of violent assaults at the facility, including another fatal stabbing this year. A lockdown means that...

The woman in the light-green blazer, shaking and holding back tears, told a panel of senators yesterday that witness intimidation is "like a nightmare." "We've suffered," she said on behalf of her Baltimore family. "We're still suffering." Calling...