As the number of mobile phones seized from Md. inmates climbs, the state's public safety secretary makes a controversial push for the power to jam signals in prisons. Employees are searched to prevent the smuggling of contraband, below.
| NIH is required to set aside money for small businesses, but an exemption may result in a tough time for area firms in securing a cut from the agency's $10 billion in stimulus funds.
A consortium that includes Md.'s Holton-Arms School is driving an experiment that joins girls-only schooling and online teaching to show girls can benefit from an Internet curriculum tailored to them.
| With its rankings of television hosts, pundits and columnists, Mediaite.com stirs controversy while making a sassy critique of media missteps and foibles, a take not driven mainly by ideology.
