Period re-enactors welcomed visitors to the Maryland Fire Museum in Lutherville Saturday night, Oct. 25, to show off the engines in the light of glass signal lamps and kerosene lanterns. (Megan Rufty/Baltimore Sun Media Group video)

Talk about coming out of nowhere. Maryvale sophomore Emily Craig decided to run cross country to prepare for the indoor track season. Who knew she was a natural.

Leonard George Getschel III, a gemologist and Smyth Jewelers executive who managed its Ellicott City store, ended his life Oct. 19. The Lutherville resident was 37.

"Save the Girls" is a slogan you might have heard especially during October, Breast Cancer Awareness month. Thanks to The Tyanna Foundation, Save the Girls has come to mean generous community support for breast cancer patients in the Baltimore area. On Oct. 10, the Maryland Athletic...

Sidney Erwin Daniels, a Baltimore philanthropist and socialite who combined her Southern charms and entertaining skills to recruit donors for a cancer support center, died of complications from dementia and cancer Tuesday at Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. She was 84.

Construction to widen and resurface lanes and redesign exit patterns along a 1-mile stretch of Interstate 695 in Baltimore County began this week and is expected to continue through the summer of 2017, according to the State Highway Administration.

On Sept. 6, the Lutherville Timonium Recreation Council hosted its annual Soccer Day, where all teams participate in a full day of soccer related activities. Hundreds of soccer players in the area gathered at Ridgely Middle School for team photos and to play their first scrimmage. One of the...

Baltimore County officials announced plans Tuesday to spend $9.8 million over the next three years to expand the school security system by outfitting every public school with surveillance cameras and secure doors.

Parents of children in Baltimore County Public Schools will be able to go online and see their children's homework assignments, check their grades on tests and communicate more directly with teachers.

A former church youth group leader in Baltimore County was sentenced Monday to a year in jail on a child pornography charge.

When a 17-year-old high school senior was the first to cross the finish line in this year's Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, he was soon followed by his parents, a sister — and his cancer-surviving 73-year-old grandmother.

The International Space Station will pass over the region Monday evening, and it’s likely your last chance to see a flyover while Cockeysville native Reid Wiseman is aboard the satellite.

Cockeysville Middle School students Ava Askandarian, Courtney Kelly, Paola Ruiz and Julia Whatley attended the Baltimore County Student Councils on behalf of the school's Student Government Association.

When it comes to thinking about people with Down syndrome, Katie Hudson wants the world to take a cue from her 6-year-old daughter, Maddie. "She always says, 'We're all a little different, and that's what makes us the same,'" Hudson said. "She gets it."

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