Harriet Tubman, (1820-1913), was born in Dorchester County and escaped slavery in 1849, devoting her adult life to helping many slaves escape to freedom by the way of the Underground Railroad.
Claims his office can't comply with requirement to provide lawyers at commissioner hearings The state would have to hire 284 new public defenders to comply with a recent Court of Appeals ruling requiring lawyers for indigent defendants at thousands of annual bail hearings, according to an affidavit filed Thursday by Maryland Public Defender Paul DeWolfe.
After a failed attempt last year to put a Harriet Tubman statue in Congress' Statuary Hall, the Maryland women's caucus is trying again to get the state native what they feel is her due representation in national history. Instead of proposing to replace an existing statue of Maryland-born revolutionary figure John Hanson, this year, the women legislators hope to place a statue of Tubman in a ...
ANNAPOLIS -- After a failed attempt last year to put a Harriet Tubman statue in Congress' Statuary Hall, the Maryland women's caucus is trying again to get the state native what they feel is her due representation in national history.
After a decades-long struggle, supporters say Harriet Tubman finally is getting her due from the state of Maryland next year, a century after her death.
Tempers flared at Friday's Eastern Shore Delegation meeting in Annapolis, where lawmakers sparred with Maryland Department of Natural Resources officials over tracking devices the DNR placed on the boats of several watermen.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - In day two of Maryland's 2012 Legislative Session, a Senate committee reviewed a bill that would give Dorchester, Caroline, Talbot and Wicomico counties the authorization to run national
SALISBURY -- Dual bills introduced in the Maryland House and Senate would allow Wicomico County to perform state and federal criminal background checks on all prospective employees and volunteers.
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