WASHINGTON – John Hutchison grows two things for the holiday season: Christmas trees and a beard

CLINTON – During a morning of picking mustard greens and turnips, some of the sixth-grade students stopped to complain that their backs hurt and the turnips leaves made them itchy

WASHINGTON – Corn and soybean yields are expected to be the second-highest ever in Maryland this year, mirroring a possible record-setting year nationwide, agriculture officials reported Friday

WASHINGTON – The Chesapeake Bay has absorbed excessive amounts of freshwater over the past four months, when streamflow broke a September record and ran 60 percent higher than normal in October

WASHINGTON – As winter approaches, Maryland’s four large-scale beekeepers are making sure their hives have plenty of honey, corn syrup or sugar water to get them through the cold months

CENTREVILLE – If the campaign for the 1st District seat in Congress has been downright neighborly, maybe it’s because the opposing campaign managers are actually neighbors

COLLEGE PARK – Jessica Loew is a seemingly average college freshman, who is addicted to the television show “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” loves to swim and is studying zoology

WASHINGTON – A blue-ribbon panel said Wednesday that federal and state governments need to come up with $15 billion for Chesapeake Bay clean up over the next six years, calling it “the last best chance” to save the troubled watershed

WASHINGTON – Kostas Alexakis has been a restaurateur, a lawyer, president of a software consulting firm and a real estate developer

WASHINGTON – The Sierra Club has joined other environmental groups that are challenging an electricity-generating wind farm proposed in Garrett County, the third such facility proposed for Western Maryland