Richard F. Colburn

One minute Eric Foster was touting cheese-making as a way to put the endangered family dairy farm on easy street. The next, his wife, Holly, was elbow deep in a vat of curds and whey, struggling to keep their morning's work from literally going down the...

Baltimore County senators rebuffed an effort to abolish Maryland's death penalty yesterday, persuading lawmakers instead to restrict when capital punishment can be used. The Senate's first full debate on the death penalty in more than three decades was...

Gov. Martin O'Malley's push to end the death penalty in Maryland would probably fall short if a legislative vote were held today, even though the governor insisted yesterday that the repeal effort "has a real shot this year." A Baltimore Sun survey of...

The young guns Dels. Dereck E. Davis of Prince George's County and Peter A. Hammen of Baltimore, the youngest committee chairmen in the legislature, got stuck with two of the toughest issues - BGE rate increases and stem-cell research, respectively. The...

Brushing aside unproven allegations that she may have lied about her sexual orientation on Army personnel forms nearly two decades ago, the Maryland Senate confirmed the nomination of Baltimore City District Judge Halee F. Weinstein by a wide margin...

Children's welfare advocates accused Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. yesterday of going back on a campaign promise to fully fund a new education-aid formula even if the General Assembly refuses to approve his plan for slot machines at Maryland racetracks. The...

State Sen. Richard F. Colburn, a Dorchester County Republican who sits on a committee that oversees education issues, has withdrawn from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore amid allegations from a former legislative aide who claims to have written...

A measure that would halt executions in Maryland appeared headed for a final vote in the Senate tomorrow, after one senator abandoned a last-minute attempt to weaken the bill last night. Sen. Richard F. Colburn, a Republican who represents parts of the...

A Senate committee killed legislation yesterday to allow women to get the so-called morning-after pill from pharmacists without having to see a doctor, one day after the measure won approval from the House of Delegates. The Senate Education, Health and...

CAMBRIDGE -- If state Sen. Richard F. Colburn was hoping for a consensus about whether to legalize slot machines here or anywhere else in Dorchester County, he didn't get it yesterday at a hastily called public hearing. An overflow crowd in a County...

A former aide to state Sen. Richard F. Colburn has sent a complaint to the General Assembly's Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics, asking for an investigation into the aide's allegations that he was required to write academic papers and conduct other...

By the end of today, the State House politicking over redrawing Maryland's legislative districts will be officially completed and a new map will become law. Now the battle moves to the courts. A half-dozen or more lawsuits are expected to be filed...