Minorities and women are gaining ground in Maryland’s Republican Party leadership, though they have yet to achieve equal representation, according to a Capital News Service analysis

JESSUP – Nine Girl Scouts, in unison with their mothers, pledged to respect authority, be honest, fair and responsible for their actions, and to make the world a better place — from behind the walls of a prison

WASHINGTON – The number of autistic children in Maryland’s public schools has grown by roughly 300 students per school year for four years, according to the state Department of Education, but advocates say it is difficult to pinpoint a single cause

WASHINGTON – The number of Maryland residents aged 65 and older will grow 67 percent by 2020 and the aging trend will be felt in every part of the state, according to the Maryland Office of Planning

WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Boehner, director of the Montgomery County Area Agency on Aging, recalls how members of her grandparents’ generation often expected to spend their final years in what her aunt called “the old age home

WASHINGTON – Annapolis and Chestertown are among the country’s 50 best places for older adults to live, according to the May/June issue of Modern Maturity magazine

BALTIMORE – Michael, a drug addict at the Maryland Detention Center in Baltimore, said he has found his salvation — in a needle

WASHINGTON- Police brutality cases are rarely prosecuted by the U

BALTIMORE – Meditation music hums through the single-wide trailer as 25 men in maroon uniforms, their names scrawled on plastic identification bracelets, sit shoulder-to-shoulder in a cramped circle

WASHINGTON – Before his kidney transplant, Chris Barbera, 15, of Darnestown was always out of breath during sports, had low stamina and was too tired to pay attention in class