WASHINGTON – When charges of sex abuse by a Boston priest made headlines a few weeks ago, the Diocese of Wilmington set out to prove to its Catholic followers it would be open about the issue

WASHINGTON – When Deborah Williams’ 14-year-old son, Antoine, got caught two years ago with a baggie of marijuana, his arrest could have gotten the Williams family kicked out of their public housing in Laurel

WASHINGTON – Doris Sarumi did not hesitate before she kicked a young mom and her six kids out of public housing this winter when a man who was living with them got caught with drugs

WASHINGTON – Fatima Wilkerson just needed a little help

WASHINGTON – The proportion of Maryland children living in poverty rose from about one in 10 kids in 1990 to almost one in eight by 2000, according to an analysis of Census data released today

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a Maryland woman’s claim that Northrop Grumman did not consider her for three job promotions because of her gender

WASHINGTON – Marissa Moore stood in a marble corridor of the Dirksen Senate building Thursday with her fifth-grade classmates from Mount Rainier Elementary, hundreds of paper dolls cascading from their arms

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has ruled that High’s of Baltimore did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when the convenience store chain temporarily shifted a worker with a back injury into a lower-paying job

WASHINGTON – When Joe Jones adds marriage lessons this year to the publicly funded programs he runs at the Center for Fathers, Families and Workforce Development in Baltimore, he will start with the fundamentals — respect, responsibility, commitment

LANDOVER – Reina Cruz wishes she could move away from Hunter’s Ridge Apartments in Landover to a real house where her 10-year-old granddaughter could have her own room and to a neighborhood where sirens do not pierce the night