Family and parenting

On Wednesday, for the first time since April 1, Maurtice will see Connor, the boy accused of shooting him. He, his mother Margaret Neal, and his older sister Brittany Neal, have been summoned to testify at the Anne Arundel County Courthouse on Church Circle. Connor has been charged as a juvenile so the charging documents, details of the investigation, and the court proceedings are confidential.

Children need protection from risks of online abuse and addiction stemming from their social media engagement, Maryland Del. C.T. Wilson says.

AACPS has introduced new Facebook pages tailored to families who speak Chinese, Korean, Urdu and Vietnamese.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott shared the news of his engagement to girlfriend Hana Pugh on Facebook on Dec. 25, 2023. No wedding date has been publicly announced.

When a Morgan State University freshman, loaded down with duffels and suitcases, missed his train home for the holidays, a MARC train conductor figured out how to get him on it anyway.

Having the kids home for the holidays brings recognition that family celebrations will never be quite the same, writer and filmmaker Charles Cohen says.

Andre Braugher will be remembered for his extraordinary acting accomplishments and for making a difference in Baltimore and other communities where he worked and lived, journalist and broadcaster Marc Steiner says.

The Maryland social services agency has been shortchanging welfare theft victims for months, according to advocates and policy experts, violating state law and potentially saving millions, an investigation by The Baltimore Banner found.

Closing the digital divide is vital to expanding opportunities for underserved communities in Baltimore, Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway Sr., retired senior pastor of Union Baptist Church in Baltimore, says.

Policymakers at every level have failed to address conditions in Baltimore’s underserved neighborhoods that continue to harm Black children, Kevin Mcleod, a longtime children’s advocate and coach, says.

The lack of livable and affordable homes in Baltimore is a growing issue.

For 20 years, Kevin Brown, who went by “Buster” or “Bustah,” made Fells Point a little warmer, safer and cleaner. He died late last month at 65.

Complaints about the blight and dangers of the Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park area have gotten little or no response from Baltimore officials, Wanda Keyes Heard, a former chief judge of the Baltimore Circuit Court, says.

Get the kids out of the house with these activities around the Baltimore area during winter break.

After three years of operating a holiday food pantry in the hallway of her Annapolis apartment building, public housing resident Donna Johnson was told she needed to shut it down. Local officials cited code violations and neighbors' complaints.

At least 10 events celebrating Krampus, the Christmas demon, are planned for the Baltimore region this year.

Poet Wallace Lane writes on family legacy and the fade.

Schools in Howard and Montgomery counties are not doing enough to ensure that Palestinian and Muslim students are not intimidated or silenced as tensions heighten during the Middle East crisis, parents of those students say.

Maybe your family has this tale, too. Somewhere along the way, one of my ancestors whose family came from Europe married a Cherokee woman. Sometimes it’s a princess in the telling, sometimes it’s not. Whatever the details or how it was told, it was just not true.

Getting those carving knives sharpened is a ritual among Baltimore-area families renewing their various Thanksgiving dinner traditions.