Children

Inflammatory bowel disease on the rise in kids

2010-09-08 14:12:00

For 10-year-old Jacob Krause, getting ready for the new school year wasn't a simple matter of back-to-school shopping. It also involved working out logistics for getting to the bathroom as many as 20 times during a single school day. The Clarksville...

Oher fields questions from kids facing the same struggle

2010-05-25 00:00:00

As Michael Oher made his way around the room signing footballs, T-shirts, napkins - anything his young fans could get their hands on - he told them that he always wanted a better life. "So the movie was really about you?" one teenage girl asked."Yeah,"...

Michael Sragow's 13 great haunted house movies

2010-10-14 09:34:33

From the blog Michael Sragow Gets Reel: It hasn't been a great era for haunted-house movies. The third version of "House of Wax," in 2005, was awful enough to kill off the form, at least as far as big American studios were concerned. The day my review...

Maryland voters focused on economy

2010-10-22 21:27:00

Maryland has endured a bruising recession better than many other states, but voters here are still wary over the economy and personal finances, and could punish incumbent politicians at the ballot box next month, a Baltimore Sun survey shows. The Sun...

Kids make up largest group with traumatic brain injuries

2010-11-08 21:27:00

Austin Story doesn't remember the late-summer outing at a friend's lakefront home in New Jersey, or the rocks he climbed near a waterfall. Or how he lost his footing and, as his horrified mother looked on, fell about 50 feet. The 14-year-old lay...

Lifeguard combines passion for pool, policy

2010-08-16 21:39:00

Another article in a series about the people and the jobs that define a Maryland summer. Conor Sheehey has heard the "Baywatch" jokes. All of them, thank you. No, the 19-year-old lifeguard doesn't run in slow motion. Most of the swimmers he...

'Dancing With the Stars' recap: TV theme night

2010-10-19 04:22:13

Apparently, we have some time to waste on tonight's Dancing With the Stars because we kick off with the judges giving us the rundown on the contestants' time on the show so far. In case, you know, we've forgotten.After 30......

Man charged in bomb plot appeared to drift into Islamic extremism

2010-12-09 07:57:00

Not so long ago, the young man accused of plotting to blow up a military recruiting station in Catonsville had a mundane job: selling children's clothes at Columbia Mall. When he was hired as a sales associate about a year ago, Antonio Martinez was...

Q&A with Maryland women's basketball coach Brenda Frese

2010-11-09 12:16:00

Maryland women's basketball coach Brenda Frese is entering her ninth season in College Park, and it might be the most challenging season of her stellar career. The No. 21 Terps will open their season Saturday night against Monmouth with a team so young...

Healing Baltimore's harbor

2011-01-30 00:00:00

Ray Bahr ought to be taking it easy. He's 75 and retired after a successful career as a cardiologist. Instead, the Canton resident finds himself prowling alleys in East Baltimore on the lookout for illegally dumped trash and goading city officials to...

Making the feast easy

2010-11-16 10:20:00

Why not? Thanksgiving dinner in a restaurant was once something only people in John Cheever stories would do, those lonely souls who were cut off from their families or who had drunk away their fortunes. Now everybody's doing it. Or at least a lot...

Ready, set, shop

2010-12-09 14:26:00

Often, the best way to find fun, original holiday gifts is to look locally. Greater Baltimore has a bevy of earnest, thoughtful shops with plenty to offer this season. The 100 clothing, jewelry, home goods, gourmet and gift stores on this list are some of...

Two overweight women walk at the 61st Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in Gaithersburg, Md., in August 2009.

2011-01-25 12:24:26

At Southside Academy Jameeka Briscoe, 16, left, and Jasmine Jones, 17, sew up pillows to be given to children in Dr. Bob's Place, a children's hospice.

2011-01-17 00:00:00

"Neighbors helping neighbors," says Bernand Stewart (not pictured) who is in this vehicle. In Hartford's northend, Stephanie Gonzalez, 20, (from left) and Joseph Montross, 21, dig out Montrosses' car with plastic children's toys.

2011-01-13 00:00:00