Family and parenting

The summers he and his cousins spent duckpin bowling at Southway lanes were the best, Mel Tansill says.

For the Jewish community, the Hamas attack on Israel felt like the history of atrocities against Jewish people repeating itself, Rachel Garbow Monroe is president and CEO of The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation.

The attacks on Israel have left many in Baltimore's Jewish community fearing for the safety of loved ones and friends living there, Marc Terrill, president of The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore, says.

Baltimoreans came together on Saturday for the Great Halloween Lantern Parade and Festival in Patterson Park.

Baltimore community leaders on Saturday rallied against gun violence in the city.

Any effort to use political arguments to rationalize the indiscriminate slaughter of Israelis must be rejected, says Rona Kobell, a Baltimore journalist and former reporter at The Jerusalem Post.

Meghan Marsh has been the executive director since September at Disability Rights Maryland.

Many Maryland families can’t afford a multiyear rate increase proposed by Baltimore Gas and Electric, Marceline White, executive director of Economic Action Maryland, says.

Members of the Venetoulis family passed love and admiration for Brooks Robinson down through generations, and Lynn Venetoulis knew she had to name a loved one after him.

Federal student loan payments are due to resume Oct. 1, and an additional burden confronts some borrowers, including some Marylanders, because of inequities in student loan programs, says Ian Williams, a consumer protection paralegal at the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service.

Fall is here, but we don’t have to let go of what we love about summer quite yet, filmmaker and writer Charles Cohen says.

A community wealth fund would provide a financial lifeline for Baltimore’s working poor, says a union leader for this region’s service workers.

High schoolers in Howard County will get a bit less sleep after Sept. 20.

Improved public health policies and individual actions by loved ones can help prevent suicides, Anthony Woods, Maryland’s secretary of veterans affairs, says.

Some playgrounds are perfectly fine; others are practically theme parks. This list is the latter — the destination playgrounds worth packing up the car and making a day of it.

Black youth suicide rates increased 144% from 2007 to 2020, with data showing that Black LGBTQ+ youth are particularly at risk, according to a new report from the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at Johns Hopkins.

The inevitability of dropping both daughters off at college didn't make coming to terms with an empty nest any easier, writer and filmmaker Charles Cohen says.

Corporate representatives say the McHenry Row store in the 1800 block of Whetstone Way will resume operations Thursday at 7 a.m. after a 'thorough mitigation process.'

Advocates say it’s a step in the right direction, but more work is needed. Nine percent of all newborns exposed to alcohol or drugs were removed from their parents in 2020, compared to 6% in 2022.

LGBTQ community members in Maryland said they are stunned and disappointed by the Maryland Supreme Court’s 4-3 ruling, which exposed a loophole in Maryland laws originally meant to protect employees against discrimination.