Federal, state and Charles County leaders broke ground Friday on a $30 million expansion of the privately owned Maryland Airport near Pomonkey, which is expected to boost defense-related business in the area.

The silver Toyota Corolla carrying 17-year-old Christian Cruz and three friends on a midnight food run swerved off a slick Montgomery County road and hit an elm tree early yesterday, making him the seventh suburban Maryland teenager to die in a traffic accident in little more than a week. Neither...

Parents do not show up at Highland Elementary School merely to drop off students.

The future of Maryland's conservation efforts may lie in the gun-toting hands of people such as Sharon Nicholson.

It was mostly silent at a candlelight vigil Friday evening in honor of the four La Plata High School teenagers killed in a car accident earlier in the week.

Charles County public school officials said Monday that they plan to comply with a public information request filed by a Board of Education member seeking Advanced Placement test scores for each high school.

A Dominican High intramural soccer program, aimed at getting Hispanic males involved in an extracurricular activity, has become a success, in Virginia and Costa Rica, where it sends soccer equipment.

For Stephanie Hoffmeier, it came down to believing in a power higher than a school system.

In a notebook on her desk at Rock View Elementary School, Principal Patsy Roberson keeps tabs on every student: red for those who have failed to attain proficiency on Maryland's statewide exam, an asterisk for students learning English and squares for black or Hispanic children whose scores place...

Former Prince George's County schools chief Andre J. Hornsby used to joke with his girlfriend, Sienna Owens, about the commissions she would earn selling educational materials, she testified yesterday in his corruption trial in federal court. "He made comments like, 'Where's my cut?' " Owens said.