UPPER MARLBORO – They look old, their faces lined like tobacco leaves and, in summer, about as dark

ANNAPOLIS – Montgomery County is finding it increasingly easy to get wishes granted by the Maryland General Assembly, at the same time Baltimore struggled this session to get 16 percent of the $49

WASHINGTON – When gunman Joseph Palczynski was loose in eastern Baltimore County for 10 days in mid-March, about 28 schools in that area went into lockdown, locking doors and windows and keeping students inside to keep them safe

ANNAPOLIS – Two of Maryland’s largest power providers own generating stations targeted by an environmental group as among the top 100 older polluting plants for their release of tons of pollutants through purported abuses of loopholes in the Clean Air Act

WASHINGTON – Federal spending in Maryland totaled more than $8,100 per person in fiscal 1999, the third-highest level of spending among the states

WASHINGTON – The federal government spent an average of $8,119

WASHINGTON – Roberta Roper and Teresa Baker had already lost their most precious possessions when their children were murdered in separate incidents

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ROCKVILLE – Plenty of Maryland’s budget is headed toward Montgomery County thanks to state legislators working together, said County Executive Douglas M