Maryland

LANHAM – Kristine Cruikshank’s office is decorated in gray and blue ocean tones, a perfect color scheme to go with the sound of water trickling from a Japanese-style water fountain her employees gave her

LANHAM – Kristine Cruikshank’s business cards used to proudly display the words “woman-owned corporation

WESTMINSTER – At 5 feet 3 inches and 145 pounds Timothy Schlauch doesn’t resemble the muscle-rippled prison guards portrayed in the movies

ANNAPOLIS – Small suburban airports are increasingly at odds with development interests in Maryland as the surging economy provides landowners with strong incentives to cash in their airports or the open spaces around them

ANNAPOLIS – Like special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully on TV’s “X- Files,” Craig Rovelstad and Wendy Irminger are working together on a flying- object mystery

WASHINGTON – The number of Maryland residents aged 65 and older will grow 67 percent by 2020 and the aging trend will be felt in every part of the state, according to the Maryland Office of Planning

WASHINGTON – Elizabeth Boehner, director of the Montgomery County Area Agency on Aging, recalls how members of her grandparents’ generation often expected to spend their final years in what her aunt called “the old age home

BALTIMORE – Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 150 million gallons of musty sewage churns through 12 vats at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant for nitrogen removal treatment

WASHINGTON – Annapolis and Chestertown are among the country’s 50 best places for older adults to live, according to the May/June issue of Modern Maturity magazine

WASHINGTON – The number of Maryland hunters injured in tree-stand accidents has risen so dramatically that falls from tree stands are now the most common type of hunting accident reported in the state