ANNAPOLIS – Wedged into the fork of Routes 450 and 648, just north of the Naval Academy Bridge, is a small and nondescript grassy hillside

WASHINGTON – A worst nightmare comes true each year for one out of every 200 Maryland income earners: the tax man comes knocking on the door

WESTMINSTER – Farmers on their way to Gettysburg for supplies would ride their horse and buggies past John Orendorff’s farmhouse, a grand three-story brick home with 15 rooms, a two- fireplace parlor and four balconies overlooking the rolling terrain

ELLICOTT CITY – Charles Ecker’s chances of overcoming Ellen Sauerbrey in Maryland’s 1998 GOP gubernatorial primary are sketchy, Maryland state political observers say

ANNAPOLIS – An Anne Arundel County judge erred when he restricted a father’s custody of his children because the father was gay, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled Wednesday

WASHINGTON – The outmoded computer printer writes only in black and white, prints excruciatingly slowly and emits a loud, high-pitched noise

WASHINGTON – Republican Rep

ROCKVILLE – Two beakers overflow with liquid and smoke as the TV show hosts come onstage announcing they are brewing clouds

Every night Debra Jean Miller puts herself in danger so she can stay off welfare

COLLEGE PARK – Lisa Newcomer sometimes leaves Reggie Haseltine’s database class at the University of Maryland University College midway through to switch her laundry to the dryer