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

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

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

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

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

ABERDEEN – To the Census Bureau, the section of Aberdeen sandwiched between Route 40 and the Aberdeen Proving Ground is an almost-perfect demographic reflection of the state of Maryland

LANGLEY PARK – It’s 10:30 a

NORTH POTOMAC – When Lisy Lara, 23, looks around the six homes in her cul- de-sac in Montgomery County’s Dufief Mill development, she sees four Asian families and two white, including her own

ANNAPOLIS – Tourism officials tout Washington County as a Western Maryland, small-town, vacation spot known for streams, orchards, mountains and waterfalls — but it could also be known for putting people behind bars

WASHINGTON – Disabled children in Maryland were less likely than other foster children to be placed with relatives, more likely to be set on a course of long-term foster care and slightly more likely to end up in group homes or institutions in 1998