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Carroll County gas station owners can now apply for county grants of up to $22,000 to pay for improvements at their facilities that will allow people to get gas when the power down.

As debate rages about the country's spiraling levels of student debt, some advocates want more focus on making sure people don't get suckered into bad educational deals — and on helping those who have already been scammed. The debt is a hole some might never dig out of, they say.

Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland alleged this week that more than 100 universities, including Goucher College and Loyola University Maryland, are violating federal law by requiring applicants to fill out extra forms that determine their eligibility for financial aid.

Greater Catonsville Chamber of Commerce reflects upon summer chair fundraiser

Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland officials are awaiting word on a key NIH grant program, Clinical and Translational Science Awards, that is facing a budget squeeze.

Southwest Airlines medical transportation grants

Somerset County officials are calling on the state Department of Housing and Community Development to amend an application for $8.6 million in federal aid that they say would leave many families hurt by Hurricane Sandy ineligible to receive any money.

State officials have decided to forge ahead with a controversial offer to buy out perhaps 10 homeowners on Smith Island as part of a plan for helping Somerset County recover from superstorm Sandy.

A proposed buyout of Smith Island homeowners to help them escape future damage from tropical storms and rising waters has been dropped amid vocal resistance from residents of the low-lying community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay.

President Barack Obama has named an Annapolis man to head the multibillion-dollar grant program through which the Federal Emergency Management Agency helps local governments prepare for disasters.

President Barack Obama has named an Annapolis man to head the multibillion-dollar grant program through which the Federal Emergency Management Agency helps local governments prepare for disasters.

Annapolis has received a $1.5 million federal grant to help pay for rebuilding the downtown City Dock.

The city of Laurel has offered small businesses relocation assistance to move to Main Street since 2011, but Mayor Craig Moe's offering has gone largely unaccepted.

When Nancy Aiken talks to students in Baltimore's Orthodox Jewish community about domestic violence and sexual assaults, she asks the boys a simple question: How many of you want to grow up to be a perpetrator of violence?

Baltimore Gas & Electric on Wednesday donated $317,883 to groups across the state that BGE President and CEO Kenneth DeFontes Jr. considers the utility company's "kindred spirits:" Maryland's emergency responders.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will grant Baltimore County disaster aid to help pay for damage from Superstorm Sandy, officials announced Thursday.

The Obama administration has denied Maryland's request for federal aid for hundreds of people on the Eastern Shore affected by last month's superstorm Sandy, prompting Gov. Martin O'Malley to vow Tuesday that he will appeal the decision.

A month after Hurricane Sandy crashed ashore, hundreds of Marylanders affected by the storm are waiting for the federal government to provide funding they can use to pay for housing and other living expenses.

Perryville's mayor and board of commissioners continued to consider changes to the town's zoning code during an Oct. 16 work session after requests from one commissioner in favor of the amendment and a recommendation from the planning commission against it.

College Board survey find tuition and fees go up $400 at public institutions

The Bowling Green cheese business — now beginning its third year — is the first farm venture to benefit from a new Howard County grant program meant to help farmers establish and expand agricultural businesses

President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in Maryland following the storms and high winds of late June and early July and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected.

I want to address the many comments and concerns our office has received lately about Resolution 15-12, and make sure that you have all the correct information. Your opinions and concerns are important and I want to make sure they are addressed.

In Baltimore alone, seven schools have been given over to outside operators, and $25 million is being spent in the School Improvement Grant program, much on technology and teacher training.

After two years, the federal program providing billions of dollars to help states and districts close or remake some of their worst-performing schools remains an ambitious work in progress, with roughly 1,200 turnaround efforts under way but still no verdict on its effectiveness.

Freeland: White Hall farmer, grant recipient, gives $2,500 Monsanto grant to Penn-Mar Human Services.

Mayor Craig Moe is pushing an ordinance that would authorize him to direct $300,000 of city funding toward three grant programs aimed at bolstering and spurring economic...

The Baltimore region — including Howard County — will receive about half as much federal funding from a key emergency preparedness grant program in fiscal year 2012 as it did in fiscal year 2011, according to budget figures released

Federal funding that has allowed Carroll County and other regional jurisdictions prepare for potential disasters and threats is likely to be cut...

Higher education leaders in Maryland praised an effort detailed by President Barack Obama on Friday to make college more affordable but expressed uneasiness about still-emerging details that could have a big impact on federal student aid.

The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seeks input on private education loans as it prepares to write a report on them for Congress.

Havre de Grace is on the hook for thousands in after…

The United States has a long and successful track record of investing in higher eduction; cuts to Pell Grants would disrupt that for low-income students.

From the exodus of middle class residents to the flight of manufacturing jobs, William Donald Schaefer confronted problems that challenged big city mayors across America. Inconsistent policies from the federal government helped create at least some of those problems.

Housing Authority of Baltimore City says paying claims and potential claims could exceed $800 million, threaten authority's solvency