Directions: The Appalachian Trail in Maryland crosses South Mountain west of Frederick, Md., at Gapland Road, and continuing north at Reno Monument Road, Alternate U.S. Route 40 and Interstate 70.

CASA, an immigrant rights group based in Langley Park, Maryland, is under intense scrutiny for its tactics, priorities and governing structure.

But by cooperating, Maryland and Virginia hope to capitalize on a surge of interest in Civil War-era sites, fueled by post-Sept. 11, 2001, patriotism and the appearance in recent years of several ...

Manassas Park's "Romeo and Juliet," which played last week and will again tomorrow and Saturday, is a respectable attempt to set Shakespeare's play in a post-Civil War Hagerstown.

The legal and moral weight of that statement is enormous. And it echoes through Maryland’s own history. In 1861, amid the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in Maryland.