"Gluten-Free" labels seem omnipresent on foods these days. But is gluten a problem, or is the campaign just hype?

Several religions celebrate the Winter Solstice. The timing and the symbols are similar, but the focal points vary widely. Here is how a number of local groups mark the season.

Headquartered in Hampstead, the 106-year-old clothier has expanded from a Baltimore trousers-maker to a multi-million-dollar, 530-store menswear retailer.

Are Christmas calories pushing on the pounds? Here is advice from weight-control experts on how to avoid extra avoirdupois and how to get rid of it.

Many of us have deep feelings about our automobiles. But there comes a time...The guys who know these things offer a few tips without the burden of sentiment.

An alternative to the elaborate and relatively expensive health club is gaining popularity. It is "Crossfit" groups that meet in informal spaces to work out.

On Mother's Day, Jodi Sell – like mothers around Carroll and across the country – will gather with her children in Union Bridge and count the ways they have blessed her life. The question of whether each child carries her genes will never come up.

For many poll workers, it's not only a civic responsibility, it's a social occasion Eleanor Shipley, who works at West Middle School in Westminster at election time, has been serving as a poll worker so long that she cannot remember when she started...

Linda Nguyen applies nail polish to Joy Huynh while her parents, Don and Cindy, naturalized U.S. citizens, watch proudly. The mood in the Fallon Federal Building in Baltimore was solemn. A dozen or so people from nations around the world were about t...