ROCKVILLE - On a sunny, fall Thursday seven years ago, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, the "Beltway Snipers," shot and killed five people in Maryland and Washington. For many of the witnesses to Muhammad's crimes that day, his execution Tuesday would represent justice served.

But the countdown to Muhammad's death has also forced those who witnessed his carnage to remember the horror and the fear of that day in October.

ANNAPOLIS - College student Douglas Stull missed a test to see Ted.

"I told my professor I was going to a conference," said Stull, a sophomore at the University of Maryland Baltimore College studying computer science. He was telling the truth.

ANNAPOLIS - A patchwork of county alcohol regulations continues to frustrate Maryland's winery owners, but that has not stopped newcomers from joining the state's growing wine industry.

Advocates like the Maryland Wineries Association are working to help the industry by making the licensing process easier for new owners.

WASHINGTON - The parking lots of Queen Anne's County's Bloomfield Farm will soon be modeling the latest in a series of efforts by the county to battle stormwater runoff pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.

Pervious concrete -- the technology Queen Anne's County will use in Bloomfield Farm's parking lots -- allows water to drain straight through into a reservoir below the pavement where it can subsequently soak into the ground. Most concrete and asphalt don't allow rainwater to penetrate the ground, instead the water runs off and pollutes waterways.