Maryland

WASHINGTON – Break out the buns and fire up the grill without guilt this Labor Day weekend

ANNAPOLIS – Smart Growth will top Gov

WASHINGTON — Maryland drivers should expect slightly higher numbers of motorists this holiday weekend than last Labor Day, when gas prices were an average of 13 cents higher in the state

WASHINGTON – Maryland schools have filled almost all of the 8,100 teacher vacancies they faced for the 2001-2002 school year and most school systems will begin the year fully staffed, the Maryland State Department of Education said

WASHINGTON – Maryland had one of the lowest poverty rates in the country and one of the highest median household incomes in 1998, according to poverty estimates released Friday by the Census Bureau

BALTIMORE – A wrecking ball is scheduled to reduce Memorial Stadium to rubble by September to make way for a retirement community

BALTIMORE – The memories pour out with bittersweet smiles when you talk to some Baltimoreans about Memorial Stadium, which is being reduced to a pile of rubble

COLLEGE PARK – Felony charges have been dropped for all four University of Maryland student athletes arrested in connection with the fires set in College Park following the Terps’ Final Four basketball loss

CATONSVILLE – Louis Diggs was teaching students at Catonsville High School how to research their roots when he realized they weren’t coming up with anything, because nothing relevant was written where they could find it

COLLEGE PARK – A month-and-a-half after University of Maryland students and others set about 60 fires that caused thousands of dollars of damage to the City of College Park, the city and the university seem to have chalked up the episode as a learning experience