CHESTERTOWN – She has been running 15 minutes late all day, but Ellen Sauerbrey still takes time to stop and greet everyone she meets, whether they’re the waitresses at a retirement brunch, community business leaders or just people on the street

ANNAPOLIS – Walking up a stairwell in the Naval Academy’s massive Bancroft Hall, Midshipman 3rd Class Grant Garcia points out a noticeable rut in the floor on the outside of the staircase

ANNAPOLIS – Renovation of Bancroft Hall has uncovered some more personal — and less glorious — bits of history for the dorm and the generations of midshipmen who have lived there

ANNAPOLIS – Faced with a state mandate to perform 75 hours of community service, students in Caroline County’s Colonel Richardson High School decided to lobby for repairs to the aging Dover Bridge

ANNAPOLIS – Carroll County lawmakers said Tuesday that the needs of the fast-growing county were largely ignored in an otherwise productive legislative session

ANNAPOLIS – The House rejected a plan Wednesday that would have had the state pay for extraordinary costs of Prince George’s County school construction, putting the settlement of a desegregation lawsuit against the county in jeopardy

ANNAPOLIS – Prince George’s County Executive Wayne Curry made a personal appeal Tuesday for a generous state funding formula that would let the county build 16 new schools and get out from under a court’s desegregation order

ANNAPOLIS – A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the murder convictions of John Norman Huffington, who brutally killed two Harford County residents in drug-related attacks during the 1981 Memorial Day weekend

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Special Appeals intervened Tuesday in a feud between an Anne Arundel County woman and her mother-in-law, ruling that the woman cannot move her late husband’s body

ANNAPOLIS – Sponsors of bills that would have mandated school curriculum and policies are claiming victory, even though their proposals were killed by lopsided votes in committee