Maryland

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

SPARROWS POINT – The last two residents of Sparrows Point have been flushed out

BALTIMORE – Raymond Johnson, who spends 10 to 12 hours a day working as the assistant manager of the Stop, Shop & Save, had to stop and search his memory when asked about the race of customers

CROFTON – Lisa Eliot watched last summer as three neighbors without children sold their homes to families with children

GRANTSVILLE – It’s early May, and the tulips are out, but spring has yet to arrive in full bloom in Garrett County