ADELPHI – Jerri Hunt remembers when she and her neighbors had to fight employees of the nearby Army Research Laboratory for parking spaces in front of their homes

WASHINGTON – Raul Delgado sees an opportunity on the horizon for his Burtonsville-based freight business to start distributing foreign goods: CAFTA

WASHINGTON – The number of Marylanders aged 65 years and older is expected to more than double to 1

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s population is expected to top 7 million in 2030, or 1

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from two Queen Anne’s lumber companies that claimed the Maryland Highway Administration took their property and reneged on a 50-year deal

WASHINGTON – Taxpayers in a single Fort Washington ZIP code were audited more often than those anywhere else in the state in 2000 and 2001, according to a Capital News Service analysis of Comptroller’s Office records

WASHINGTON – Got a hard-luck tax story? Chances are it won’t top the Lanham resident who was hit with $651,624 in extra taxes after a 2001 audit, or the Centreville taxpayer who was assessed an additional $491,423

WASHINGTON – Baltimore officials said they plan to challenge new Census Bureau estimates that say the city lost 7,053 residents last year, making it the only jurisdiction in the state to lose population from 2003 to 2004

WASHINGTON – Maryland got $184 million in federal “pork-barrel” funding in fiscal 2005, a pork-per-capita spending rate that was slightly higher than the national average, a Washington watchdog group said Wednesday

WASHINGTON – More than one baby in three was born to a single mom in Maryland in 2003, a proportion that was virtually unchanged from the year before, according to preliminary federal figures