Baltimore County's Allied Sports program gives more kids a chance to play.
Yesterday's rain has left muddy puddles around the grounds of Kenwood High School in Essex. Bright white lights shine on the wet grass of an athletic field that smells punchy and acidic, a mix of...
Acupuncture helps addicts on the road to recovery.
At 9:30 on a recent Friday morning, two dozen men and women walk up the stairs of a nondescript gray building in the 2400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. Taking seats among the two circles of folding...
Initially daunting, sometimes exhausting, homeschooling makes for engaging and eclectic education.
My children spent the first day of their school year discussing the use of confetti guns with The Flaming Lips, their favorite rock band. No kidding. Before a recent show, Lips singer Wayne Coyne...
When popular blog The Daily Beast recently ranked Baltimore the 10th smartest city in America, local responses ranged from "Who, us?" and "Heck yeah!" to "Why not number one?" The website ranked...
A University of Maryland doc unravels the mystery of an Indonesian villager's bark-like skin.
Two-and-a-half years after University of Maryland Medical Center Chief of Dermatology Anthony Gaspari first laid eyes on an Indonesian villager named Dede, the doctor is still trying to solve the...
A hot, muggy day in mid-July might not seem the ideal time to be covered in fake fur, but 21-year-old Emily Hanby of Delaware, perched on a step outside of the Baltimore Convention Center, is...
A color war is raging outside the Anne Arundel County Council building in Annapolis. One team wears green shirts and hats, carries signs that read "Slots=Jobs," and hands out leaflets detailing...
NFL dreams remain dimly alive in Baltimore's minor league arena football.
This has to be the coldest practice in the history of arena football. It's February 21, and despite abundant sunshine, a bitter wind is whipping through Saints Field at Baltimore Lutheran School in...
Why more people over 45 are joining the social networking site.
When Colleen McKenna Slavin's teenagers told her she was a "Facebook loser" because she only had seven Facebook friends, she sat down at her computer and got to work. Twenty-four hours later, the 48-...
It's so hard to find good friends these days, even—or perhaps especially—if you are a world-famous heiress.
Apparently, one season of challenges, mind games, and constant video surveillance didn't...
