Speedy is old in horse-years. At age 30, the quarter horse is among the most senior at Notchcliff Farm. But he’s not too old to take his owner on trail rides and entertain visitors who run their fingers through his chestnut-brown coat. Movement keeps him young. It’s the same for residents of Glen...
Among nearly 200 recently passed bills Gov. Larry Hogan is set to sign into law Thursday are measures that will give authorities more leeway in prosecuting perpetrators of hate crimes and online bullying. One bill prohibits even making a threat of a hate crime, inspired by a spate of bomb threats...
Police say a Maryland man knowingly spread HIV to four women after meeting them on dating sites and apps. The Frederick News-Post reported Tuesday that 34-year-old Rudolph Jericho Smith has been charged with first-degree assault and reckless endangerment. He also faces counts of knowingly transferring...
A third case of measles has been confirmed in Maryland, the state Department of Health announced Wednesday. The health department warned that people who visited three locations in Pikesville on Sunday might have been exposed to the contagious disease: » 4000 Old Court Road — an office building...
Could quitting tobacco involve something as simple as a pleasant scent? New research suggests it's possible. U.S. smoking rates have fallen over the past 50 years, but about 40 million Americans still smoke, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least half of adult...
Baltimore has filed a lawsuit seeking to block a Trump administration rule designed to steer family planning funding away from organizations that provide abortion referrals, saying the new regulation could cost the city $1.4 million. In March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued...
Virginia S. Frederick, a retired registered nurse and centenarian who enjoyed spending summers at the beach, died Friday at Gilchrist Center Towson of congestive heart failure. The former longtime resident of the Woodbrook neighborhood of Baltimore County was 102. The former Virginia Schmidt, who...
Richard M. “Dick” Kelly, former HIV/AIDS program administrator for the city Health Department who earlier had been a longtime Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater Baltimore executive, died April 3 at Gilchrist Center Towson from a brain injury suffered in a fall. The Roland Park resident...
The number of heroin and opioid overdoses being reported to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office is down significantly from the same time last year, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re not happening at the same rate. And in the end, what matters is fewer people are dying, Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler...
Smoking has been the No. 1 preventable cause of cancer for decades and still kills more than 500,000 people a year in the United States. But obesity is poised to take the top spot, as Americans' waistlines continue to expand while tobacco use plummets. The switch could occur in five or 10 years,...
Smoking has been the No. 1 preventable cause of cancer for decades and still kills more than 500,000 people a year in the United States. But obesity is poised to take the top spot, as Americans' waistlines continue to expand while tobacco use plummets. The switch could occur in five or 10 years,...
Steroid injections, nerve stimulators and spinal fusions were no match for the chronic pain in Tammy Durfee’s left side — never mind the “searing-hot poker” sensation that would jab her leg without warning. After a decade searching for relief, a four-hour procedure in Baltimore put her pain to...