MARYLAND

OYSTER SANCTUARY: Maryland officials have proposed a new oyster sanctuary in the Eastern Shore’s Manokin River, and suggested paying for it using only state money — a maneuver that could allow watermen to one day harvest from it. STEPPING DOWN: Mitchel Gordon, a prominent workers’ compensation lawyer, has resigned from a new legislative panel investigating the corrupt Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force after revelations he had represented three of the convicted detectives in injury claims.