Somerset County (Maryland)

Lucretia H. Harris, a retired Somerset County housekeeper and cook who was recently honored by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and who established a scholarship in her name on her 100th birthday, died Saturday at Manokin Manor Nursing and...

If you don't absolutely, positively have to sell a home at the moment, how do you figure out if you really, honestly want to? Once you get past the financials - how much do you owe, how much could you get - you might consider how many homes in your neck...

The statistics are eye-opening - if not startling. In Maryland, one of the most affluent states in the nation, significant swaths of poverty endure in urban and rural areas, among families and children. In Baltimore, 22.2 percent of residents live in...

Chesapeake Bay watermen are considering legal action over proposals in Maryland and Virginia to reduce the crab harvest, arguing that the states shouldn't punish crabbers for government's failure to clean up the bay. Lawyers for the watermen say it is...

The Phoebus community might have picked up a different name if its namesake had followed through on a plan that he stewed over in 1881. A fed up Harrison Phoebus, proprietor of the famous Hygeia Hotel, wrote to his financial backer in Baltimore that he...

Maryland has been engaged in capital punishment for more than 200 years - first by hanging, then a gas chamber and finally by lethal injection. The earliest recorded execution in the state took place Oct. 22, 1773, when four "convict servants" were...

Still more Maryland residents are dead or missing in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Amelia Fields Amelia Fields, 38, a clerical worker who had been transferred to the Pentagon on Sept. 10, is listed as missing. Mrs. Fields grew up in Somerset...

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The Ehrlich administration is considering selling such valuable state assets as the World Trade Center in the Inner Harbor and land at Baltimore-Washington International Airport to replenish a transportation fund that will be raided to help balance the...

Lawyers for several of Maryland's death-row inmates say they will use a new study suggesting the death penalty is racially biased to try to stop their clients from being executed. But they say convincing a judge could be difficult because of hurdles...

MUTUAL - Phyllis Keefe is no ordinary reader. Curled up on the couch beside her 6-year-old daughter, she cracks open a children's book and launches into a dramatic monologue that transforms "Bravo, Amelia Bedelia!" into a one-act play. She laughs, mimics...

Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend called it a "tiny little office" being picked on by an aggressive U.S. attorney. But the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, which finds itself tangled in a federal investigation over at least one grant...