BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 17 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: * * * Beaver County Man Jailed 10 Years for Trafficking Heroin and Cocaine HARRISBURG -- Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that a Beaver County man was sentenced last week in federal court to 10 years in prison for his role in a criminal organization distributing large quantities of cocaine and heroin in and around Beaver County. Kijana Lowe, 27, of Aliquippa, previously plead  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 18 -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Global Warming Can Lead to Inflammation in Human Airways, New Research Shows Drier air caused by climate change poses respiratory health risk by dehydrating airways, researchers say In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and inflammation when exposed to dry air,  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 18 -- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources issued the following news on March 17, 2025: * * * Maryland DNR 2024 Fall Oyster Survey Records Solid Reproduction for Fifth Consecutive Year Oyster populations in the Chesapeake Bay are faring well, according to preliminary results of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources' annual Fall Oyster Survey. After a remarkable year for oyster reproduction in 2023, the survey's 2024 spatfall intensity index, a meas  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 17 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: * * * Report: Pa. Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Section Charged More Medicaid Fraud Cases than any other State in the 2024 Fiscal Year AG Sunday's Medicaid Fraud Control Section ranked No. 3 in criminal convictions nationwide; a few recent cases are highlighted HARRISBURG - Attorney General Dave Sunday announced the release of an annual report that ranks his office's Me  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 18 -- The University of Baltimore issued the following news release: * * * Law Prof. Astrachan: Impact of Abandoned Trademark is Difficult to Predict Writing in The Daily Record, James B. Astrachan, an adjunct faculty member in The University of Baltimore School of Law and an expert in trademark, copyright and intellectual property law, says that a recent legal case involving the Proud Boys' loss of their trademark to a church is complicated by what the "abandonment  more