TEMPLE HILLS – Glenn Chester remembers his father as a hard-living, tough-loving provider type of guy whose primary goal as a parent was to put food on the table

WASHINGTON – The Census Bureau finally recognized what many in Maryland noticed just by looking around — that the country is becoming more of a racial melting pot every day

WASHINGTON – The Census Bureau defines a family as any household with two or more members related by blood or marriage

WASHINGTON – Howard County had the country’s highest percent of adults with a high school diploma last year, while nearby Baltimore City had one of the lowest rates, according to a new Census Bureau report

WASHINGTON – With more deer in the woods, and an extra day to hunt them, state officials are predicting that the deer season that starts Saturday could top last year’s record of nearly 100,000 deer taken

WASHINGTON – The makers of deep-fat fryers have a message for ambitious chefs this Thanksgiving: Turkeys don’t burn houses down, people do

WASHINGTON – The number of state and local government workers in Maryland grew by 2 percent between 2001 and 2002, to more than 285,000 positions, capping several years of growth before the state budget faltered, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday

WASHINGTON – State demographers are keenly aware of the fact that there is a disparity between the numbers of men and women in Maryland

WASHINGTON – When Cumberland bartender Stephanie Scaletta and her friends want a date, they go to another state where their odds are better

WASHINGTON – Sheron Rosen’s two sons grew up together in the same Gaithersburg home, summered at the same camps, celebrated their bar mitzvah at the same temple and are now both grown and married