The practice of medicine today is hobbled by some of the very technology that is supposed to improve it. The main culprit is the interference of the computer in the patient-physician relationship in the form of Electronic Medical Records.

An unused house in the 800 block of Red Pump Road, north of Bel Air, will be converted into personal care boarding home to serve up to 10 senior citizen residents, according to a site plan presented to the Harford County Development Advisory Committee Wednesday.

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Does it sometimes feel as if your doctor is spending more time looking at the computer than engaging with you?

While almanacs can be entertaining, farmers and gardeners say they are no longer relied upon because they are not scientific.

A few weeks ago, a Texas school teacher named Brandy Young went viral on the Internet when a parent shared a letter she sent home announcing her new homework policy: There wouldn't be any assigned, unless it was work your child was unable to complete in class. She instead asked parents and students spend their time after school doing things like eating together as a family, reading to and with your children and getting kids to bed early, all of which have a proven impact on student success.

InfoTeK Corp., a Hanover-based cybersecurity firm, announced Friday it acquired the assets of SilverRhino LLC, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in information technology services for federal agencies..

It has become a pleasurable challenge to sit opposite Jonathan Flombaum in the Sun’s podcast studio and listen to him think out loud. An assistant professor in

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University will share in $15 million in funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development to go toward Zika research.

Bel Air Mayor Susan Burdette, who is in her fifth year on the town board, spends her days and nights serving residents and representing the Harford County seat at the state and regional level. She's technically a mayor in name only, because the post is mainly ceremonial, but that hardly means she isn't constantly busy with town government related activities and decisions.

As engineers continued to assess a 50-foot-wide sinkhole on Mulberry Street on Wednesday, transportation officials closed a ramp from U.S. Route 40 into downtown, a path used by 32,000 motorists daily.

Mulberry Street could be closed for weeks because of a growing sinkhole that may have developed undetected even as crews recently worked to replace a water main on the thoroughfare.

As Corey Witherspoon cradled a senior who had just been stabbed in the heart at Baltimore's Renaissance Academy High School, the boy's mentor tried to stop the bleeding with his hands. He screamed: "Fight. You can make it. You'd better keep breathing!" Those words became the unofficial mantra for Renaissance's Class of 2016, a group that endured so much trauma last year, perhaps the toughest year ever for the school, or any school.

Asthma-related hospitalizations increase significantly during severe heat and rainstorms, which are predicted to worsen as the Earth warms from climate change, according to new research from the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

Gov. Larry Hogan is proposing $20 million in funding for defense and aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, designed to retain the company's newly created Mission Systems divisional headquarters in Linthicum and 10,000 jobs in Maryland.

Two of Maryland's leading science and technology institutions are joining forces to invest $1.6 million in manpower and resources to enhance learning at a south Baltimore school.

Harford County Executive Barry Glassman says his first year in the top local elected office fulfilled a long-held dream.

The individuals accused of committing a series of armed robberies in recent weeks continue to be held at the Carroll County Detention Center following bail review hearings Monday morning.

Deputies have made two arrests in a string of armed robberies committed throughout the county over the last several months. David Beene and Ann Marie Knights are in custody and connected to at least six armed robberies since June 17.

Simple tests already used regularly to assess kidney function and damage could also help doctors predict who will suffer heart disease, researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found.

Newly-elected Havre de Grace Mayor Bill Martin plans to appoint Mike Hitchings to Martin's open council seat

On a recent day, 21/2-year-old Connor was busy helping his grandmother make cookies, a normal family scene except for what happened before the bowls and

The words come out of Sarah Littlepage's mouth almost like a confession: "I've been very uninvolved."

More than a year after it was proposed, a major project to build single-family houses and a large retirement community on a former farm east of Bel Air has the majority of the necessary Harford County approvals to proceed, but county officials, state officials and the developers are still trying to work through traffic mitigation issues.

It was a typical winter morning on the Twitter feed of Eastern Shore television station WBOC: a stream of messages about snowfall and a reminder to download the station's weather app for the latest updates.

In the coming days a speck is expected to rise on the Baltimore skyline: It's a giant balloon that the Army will be floating high above Middle River to scan the skies for cruise missiles.

A rare disclosure that the FBI used a stingray in a federal prosecution in Maryland highlights "tremendous" secrecy over police use of cellphone tracking without warrants.

Anybody who cares about Baltimore City should be talking about raising funds for IB and Ingenuity — not decreasing programs that already operate on shoestring budgets. We need to recognize that when it comes to IB and Ingenuity, a rising tide truly lifts all boats.

Latest survey results suggest Chesapeake Bay blue crabs will be in short supply this year and that more must be done to protect their future

The stories of three people who found more than something to occupy their time in retirement. They found new passions, avocations that add life to their retirement.

Jack McT. Dibler, a much-revered Howard County chemistry teacher who was an inveterate Washington Capitals fan, died Tuesday of esophageal cancer at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 63.

As the more than 24-hour deluge of rain came to an end in much of central Maryland on Thursday morning, residents, local officials and business leaders all took stock of the torrential downpours' toll.

With some facing up to 40 days away from their homes, Charles Village residents criticize the city and CSX for failing to heed their complaints about problems with East 26th Street, which collapsed in a heap of stones, dirt and automobiles onto the adjacent train tracks.

The Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population remains at a low level for the second straight year, officials announced Thursday, blaming the severe winter for killing off a large number of the iconic crustaceans.

Harford County emergency officials dealt with what one called "the worst storm event" in months, as the county was caught in a massive deluge that dropped up to 9 inches of rain in some areas between late Tuesday night and early Thursday morning.

In a largely civil forum Wednesday, candidates for the Howard County Board of Education spent little time pointing out the differences between themselves and other colleagues.

A nearly 120-year-old retaining wall that has troubled Charles Village residents for decades collapsed amid a month's worth of rain that fell Tuesday and Wednesday, dumping half a dozen cars, street lights and sidewalks onto the CSX rail tracks below.

Coumbia man's air conditioner invention picked by Quirky

Well established on Laurel's Main Street for her networking as the public liaison and artistic director for Laurel Mill Playhouse, Maureen Rogers has taken on another job toward the other end of the street. Last year, she was hired as administrator of the Laurel Board of Trade, and works in the group's small, tucked-away office on Main Street.

Without federal, state or local regulations, vaping rules are in flux

Baltimore's spending panel agreed on Wednesday to give H&S Bakery $200,000 to relocate its distribution center from Harbor East, as part of controversial agreement officials say will help keep the business in the city.

Every successful lacrosse team needs a player like Westminster senior captain Scott Gwyn. A long stick midfielder in his fourth varsity season, Gwyn enjoys winning a ground ball as much as providing an assist or scoring a big goal. He plans to be a politician.

EPA's new five-year plan calls for doing fewer inspections and fewer enforcement actions, which worries some environmentalists. Agency officials say they intend to focus on the most important cases and use technology to help target their efforts.

The early candidate for rap album of the year begins with a mother warning her son to stop following in the footsteps of his incarcerated father.

Two programs that have given Baltimore students a competitive edge now face funding cuts in the most strapped city schools budget in decades.

The Rawlings-Blake administration is set to give $200,000 to help H&S Bakery move its Harbor East distribution center to an industrial area of East Baltimore — sparking discussion of whether subsidies should be needed to help a successful business expand.

The fish kill affecting Baltimore Harbor and the Patapsco River appears to be over, according to a spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment. But state biologists are still unclear why an estimated 7,000 fish turned belly up so early in the year.