Invasive species are suprisingly common around here, and some of them are downright ugly.

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.

After some three decades of dormancy, the role of standardized testing in education is again being challenged, largely as a result of a rash of scandals involving teachers and students scamming the tests.

As observances of the Civil War sesquicentennial flourish, so has the market in fake battlefield relics. It's a multibillion-dollar scam.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms,” noted George Eliot, the author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch.

More research goes into the car people drive than the dog that's going to share their life with them,” said dog trainer Linda Kaim, owner of Coeur d' LionK9 Behavior Management, Westminster.

The dreaded pink slip.

Five Carroll County authors are writing the life romantic.

McDaniel College Professor Thomas J. Zirpoli contends that kids are meaner today because their parents are meaner.“In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of childr...

The writer’s children, Brittany A. Roth and her brother, Pierce A. Roth, created this Xenomorph costume, based on the second “Alien” movie, using more than 30 rolls of duct tape.  It won them first place in the novice category of the HorrorFi...