Maryland

WASHINGTON – Four homes in pre-foreclosure, two bank-owned properties and one house up for auction in an eight-block stretch of 49th Street, Hyattsville, highlight the lingering effects of predatory lending and questionable decisions by homebuyers in Prince George’s County

DENTON – Former Gov

ANNAPOLIS – Over the past decade, billions of oysters have been planted in the Chesapeake Bay, pushed off of boats by the thousands to settle on sanctuaries and managed reserves throughout the watershed

ANNAPOLIS – Ranked by Gallup as the country’s third most Democratic state, Maryland has been a steep climb for any Republican candidate vying to win statewide office

BALTIMORE – Last year, Cornelia Brown was forced to move out of the East Baltimore rowhouse she had lived in for almost 60 years

CUMBERLAND – At the Celanese Wastewater Treatment Plant here on a snowy day in early December, giant open-air cisterns churn constantly, providing background sounds of quietly bubbling brown water and the hum of machinery

ANNAPOLIS – Imagine a team of robbers, ski masks on their faces

WASHINGTON – Marylanders continue to spend more on prescription drugs compared to their national counterparts, despite the state’s lower overall health care spending, according to an analysis of state and national health care expenditure data

CHEVY CHASE – On a rainy November night, the seventh floor of Microsoft’s recently-opened offices in Chevy Chase are a flurry of celebration

WASHINGTON – A large and dirty problem continues to percolate underneath Maryland’s towns and cities, unseen and out of mind, flowing into the Chesapeake Bay: aging sewer systems