SILVER SPRING – Except for the red fire hydrants and plastic poodles, the cemetery nestled inconspicuously on the corner of Aspen Hill Road and Georgia Avenue looks much like any other

WASHINGTON – There are more than five infants and toddlers in Maryland for every one state-licensed child care slot for children under age 2, according to an analysis of state records by Capital News Service

OELLA – The front of Rich Burns’ cliffside Oella home is a two-level, wheat-colored log house that sits right up against the curb of a windy, single- lane road, looking much as it has for the past century

WASHINGTON – Garry and Sharon Voith paid more than $54,000 to Maryland’s prepaid college tuition program last year to cover future tuition costs for all three of their children

WASHINGTON – Maryland’s members of Congress say they are receiving only a handful of calls each day on Kosovo, most of them against U

WASHINGTON – The number of Maryland children living in poverty grew by 34 percent between 1989 and 1995, rising to 171,746 children, according to a report released Thursday

WASHINGTON – Child abuse and neglect investigations in Maryland have risen steadily from 1994 to 1998, state statistics show, mirroring similar increases on the national level

A federal circuit court rejected claims by a member of a Prince George’s County drug ring that he should not have been sentenced as a “career offender,” despite two previous convictions

WASHINGTON – Rural counties grew by 14 percent from 1990-98, more than double the growth rate of the state’s bigger counties, according to new Census Bureau figures

Convicted double-murderer Scotland E