HUGHESVILLE – Home for Jason is different than home for most kids — he lives with his mother and four siblings in Angel’s Watch Shelter, a nondescript, one-story building at the crossroads that is this rural Charles County town

WASHINGTON – A state program that helps low-income residents pay their heating bills has received more applications than it had at the same time last year, when demand for the program was the highest in nearly a decade

WASHINGTON – More than 20 years ago, Joanne and Elmer Martin put their wax figures in the back of their hatchback and drove to Maryland libraries and churches, trying to teach people about black history

SILVER SPRING – State and federal government agencies had everything they needed to open a disaster recovery center in Silver Spring Thursday — except clients

WASHINGTON – The state government opened three disaster recovery centers Tuesday to help Maryland residents affected apply for government assistance

CAMP SPRINGS – Growing up, Mike Schichtel was the kind of kid who used to run outside when thunderstorms and snowstorms blasted his neighborhood

WASHINGTON – House leaders said Tuesday they do not expect the Senate to act on a welfare reform bill before the end of the year and will instead seek another extension of the law that expired last year

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WASHINGTON – As a community outreach manager for the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, Joe Heiney-Gonzalez serves an area where 45 percent of the residents are foreign-born and speak more than 100 different languages