Raymond J. Piechocki, a retired architect who specialized in institutional, governmental and franchise retailing and was the founder of Piechocki Consultants, died Feb. 23 from a cerebral hemorrhage at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Fla. He was 78.
Judy Western, a social worker who helped people who were adopted locate their birth families, died of a heart attack Sunday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Inner Harbor resident was 78.
This is a concert that is open to the public and that will mix performers with autism with performers without it. The audience also will include folks with autism who might jump up and down in front of the stage, or actually climb the stage and put their hands on a cello.
Nine young adults or kids were presented with custom-built bicycles by volunteers working with Volunteers for Medical Engineering (VME) during a clinic at Change Inc., in Westminster.
A Middle River family is home and adjusting to living with their son's brain injuries after he and other family members were hurt in a crash following a police chase in Philadelphia.
Tatyana McFadden presented her Baltimore trainers with the Order of Ikkos Medal, which acknowledges the contributions of coaches of Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
The Assistance Center of Towson Churches, which distributes food to needy area families, is among many helping organizations who could use help filling shelves, pantries and gift baskets.
Gender identity originates from the brain. Persons who are transgender or gender non-binary do not have a choice in who they are. The narrowly determined definitions of gender proposed by this administration would undermine the progress we have made to increase tolerance and acceptance.
By Renata Sanders, Errol L. Fields and Kathryn Van Eck
Daniel Romanchuk, who grew up in Mount Airy, became the first American to win the men's wheelchair division of the New York City Marathon on Sunday, finishing with a time of 1 minute, 36:21 seconds.
Dr. Peter J. Fagan, a former Roman Catholic priest who became a medical psychologist and was director of Research and Clinical Outcomes for Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC, died Saturday of multiple myeloma at his Fulton home. He was 77.
Sally J. Michel, a civic activist and former chair of the city Planning Commission who founded the Parks and People Foundation, died Thursday from complications at her Roland Park home. She was 80.
Some Baltimore City Council members are asking the police department to stop deploying a small group of officers to patrol the areas around the Johns Hopkins institutions in East Baltimore.
Dr. Paul Lipkin and his daughter, Dr. Eliza Gordon-Lipkin, both of the Kennedy Krieger Institute, worked on a study on the relationship between autism, ADHD and other mental health disorders in children.
She comes out with an associates degree in Early Childhood Education and one goal in mind — to work with kids, specifically those with special needs who have struggled as she has.
Dr. Bradley L. Schlaggar, who has served on the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for the past 19 years, will start his new job this summer.
The amount of kids with autism in the United States increased 15 percent to 1 in 58 children, according to new data by the Centers for Disease Control.
Frederick's Noah Grove, the son of Chris Grove, who won more than 680 races as a trainer based in Maryland, earned a gold medal for the United States sled hockey team.
There are many ways in which sports and sports figures can work with the general public to help bring awareness to certain causes that combine the star power of the professional athlete with the resources of hard working volunteers to reach a common goal.
Former state schools superintendent urges the Maryland Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education to resist any attempt to weaken its recommendations by merely tweaking the system or reshuffling what exists. Now is the time for bold vision, integrity and courage.
For over a decade, Scott Melville, of Hampstead, has become a Santa Claus, bringing gifts to children spending the holidays at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
Civil trial opens for two Baltimore Police homicide detectives accused of wrongfully charging Sabien Burgess, who spent 19 years in prison for a murder he did not commit,
Katherine W. Bredbenner, a former occupationa;l therapist who was a longtime volunteer with her church and Meals on Wheels, died Set. 22 of septic shock. She was 75.
Betty Lou Driver, 87, a retired phyiscal therapist whose own lifelong struggle with ceregral palsy served as an inspiration to otherts, died July 30 of respiratory failure at Fairfax Hopsital.
Tracy Horch knew for sure that her daughter Keely's brain was intact on March 14, two weeks after the active 12-year-old suffered a stroke that left her
Two things set Camp SOAR apart. One, the camp is for patients at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Two, siblings attend the camp together, even siblings who are not patients.
Former Md. school superintendent Nancy Grasmick counters the seemingly endless cycle of negative education news, with some achievements of the past year.
Lainy LeBow-Sachs remembers the moment her life changed. She saw a flyer for someone who was running to be the city's next mayor. Her children in school, the
