WASHINGTON – There are more than five infants and toddlers in Maryland for every one state-licensed child care slot for children under age 2, according to an analysis of state records by Capital News Service

COOKSVILLE – Doris Bell is almost certain her house has no ghosts

WASHINGTON – Reported oil and chemical spills in Maryland fell by half over the past five years, according to a Capital News Service analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data

ANNAPOLIS – Over the past 20 years, Maryland has increasingly lost population to states on its eastern, western and southern borders, even as its economy continues to grow

SILVER SPRING – Except for the red fire hydrants and plastic poodles, the cemetery nestled inconspicuously on the corner of Aspen Hill Road and Georgia Avenue looks much like any other

CHESTERTOWN – More than 500 people were milling around outside the Dierkers’ tidy white farmhouse and the portable potties still had not arrived

WASHINGTON – Dorchester County may not have a big-name department store, but that has not stopped the county from leading the state in the rate of sales growth over the past five years

WASHINGTON – When Maryland officials tested their 9-year-old home- detention equipment last fall by “faking the year 2000,” they found that the ankle bracelets and voice verification systems that the program relies on shut down

NEW MARKET – Every man has his own idea of what makes history

ANNAPOLIS – By the time doctors caught Norwood Beauchamp’s lung cancer, the disease had already spread to his lymph nodes