WASHINGTON – For 29 years, Baltimore resident Al Payne has played the role of Santa, personally delivering gifts on Christmas Eve to needy children and families

COLUMBIA – At first glance, Salmah Rizvi appears to be a typical — if overachieving — American teen-ager

WASHINGTON – Prayer is so important to Howard County high school student Salmah Rizvi that she gets up at 5 a

WASHINGTON – Rockville resident Henry Rapalus, 78, will be in Hawaii on Friday, 60 years to the day after he was a young sailor handling ammunition on a naval destroyer when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor

WASHINGTON – Holiday traditions for the Zeil family include baking cookies, decorating the Christmas tree and taking a leisurely drive past twinkling scenes of Santa playing ice hockey

WASHINGTON – Escalating costs have forced organizers of the Prince George’s County Winter Festival of Lights to charge an entrance fee for the first time this year, and coordinators fear that local food pantries will suffer because of it

WASHINGTON – The number of Maryland schoolchildren receiving free or reduced-price breakfasts at school jumped by 8,401 last year, even as the number of schools offering breakfasts fell, according to a report released Tuesday

WASHINGTON – A Joppa man cannot sue General Motors over an allegedly defective airbag because the company did not have a chance to inspect the car before it was repaired and resold, a divided federal appeals court has ruled

WASHINGTON – Montgomery and Prince George’s counties are national leaders when it comes to graduating African American and Latino students from high school, according to a new study of the 50 largest school systems in the country

WASHINGTON – Geraldine Cripe has two reasons to fly from Pensacola, Fla