Yours, Mine, Ours: It’s All One, Big, Happy — Blended — Family

WESTMINSTER – Like most families, the Horvaths’ weekend days are filled with sports and other activities, but Friday and Saturday nights are reserved

Camren Has Two Mommies — Like Thousands of Kids in Small, Growing Family Type

BALTIMORE – Camren knows she is a special girl, and she happily shows off with a little prodding from her parents

Federal Government Targets Repetitive Flood Losses in Maryland

ANNAPOLIS- In several Maryland counties, properties are being flooded and rebuilt over and over again, sometimes at taxpayers’ expense, according to a Capital News Service analysis of Federal Emergency Management Agency data

Outdated Flood Maps Slated For Revamping

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s flood maps, used to determine flood-prone areas, are on average more than 20 years old, and it will be at least another eight years before the entire state has “new” maps, which may not be new at all

Many More Marylanders Missing Than Media Notice

ANNAPOLIS – Valerie Littleton was last seen having dinner alone at Denny’s before she simply vanished

Fatal Crashes Disproportionately High in Rural Counties, Records Show

WASHINGTON – Rural counties accounted for 24 percent of the state population but 36 percent of the fatal crashes over the better part of a decade, an anomaly that experts blame largely on the design of country roads

Seven-Plus People Doubles the Definition of Family — With One More on the Way

OLNEY – Bob McHale, 36, crawls under the kitchen sink, wrench in hand, to attack a drain clogged with potato peelings

Big Brother Decides to Take a Gander at Mute Swans

WASHINGTON – It sounds like an operation worthy of the Department of Homeland Security

Older Mom Faces Same Challenges as Younger Moms — And Reaps Same Rewards

SCAGGSVILLE – Laurie Collins once thought she might never have children

For Growing Number of Multiracial Couples, It’s Not a Black-and-White World

GAITHERSBURG – Angela Conrad remembers staring at her daughter’s kindergarten registration form and trying to decide — was Lyric white like her, or black like her father?

“I checked both white and black on the boxes,” Conrad said