Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Over the past 20 years, Maryland has increasingly lost population to states on its eastern, western and southern borders, even as its economy continues to grow

WASHINGTON – Reported oil and chemical spills in Maryland fell by half over the past five years, according to a Capital News Service analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data

CLARYSVILLE – The Clarysville Inn stands at a historic crossroads

ANNAPOLIS – By the time doctors caught Norwood Beauchamp’s lung cancer, the disease had already spread to his lymph nodes

NEW MARKET – Every man has his own idea of what makes history

WASHINGTON – When Maryland officials tested their 9-year-old home- detention equipment last fall by “faking the year 2000,” they found that the ankle bracelets and voice verification systems that the program relies on shut down

CUMBERLAND – The manner of the 66-year-old grocer’s death was not at all common in the Western Maryland town

ANNAPOLIS – They’ve been called the “progeny” of Megan’s Law, and several variations of the law inspired by the brutal sexual assault of a New Jersey 7- year-old occupied the Maryland General Assembly this session, but only one is likely to become law

OELLA – The front of Rich Burns’ cliffside Oella home is a two-level, wheat-colored log house that sits right up against the curb of a windy, single- lane road, looking much as it has for the past century

GRANTSVILLE – Stepping off the National Road in Grantsville and into the Spruce Forest Artisan Village is more than a step back in history: It’s a step back into many different histories