ANNAPOLIS – Government agencies across Maryland will be closed Friday, the first of five designated furlough days for state employees designed to help compensate for a nearly $700 million predicted budget shortfall

BALTIMORE – Baltimore’s art institutions have had to cut their budgets, but they’re hoping their audiences won’t notice

BALTIMORE – Two girls are first onto the playground

BALTIMORE – For many residents, Belair-Edison is less like a city neighborhood and more like a small town

BALTIMORE – As Baltimore’s unemployment rate rose, many people headed to the library

BALTIMORE – Four hundred perennials aren’t cheap and they’re not likely to come from any city budget, but Latrobe Park in Locust Point is filled with them

ANNAPOLIS – Hundreds of angry Marylanders expressed their outrage at what they argue is governmental overspending at “tea party” protests across the state and in front of the White House Wednesday

WASHINGTON – President Obama presented a picture of financial penance and sacrifice in his address to Congress Tuesday night, but Maryland’s congressional delegation heard the hope in the message for fixing the future

ANNAPOLIS – Gov

COLLEGE PARK – For University of Maryland freshman Lea Shapiro, the region’s first snowfall was a reason for celebration