Asperger Syndrome

A week after the horrific gun rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School, some Americans have shown their grit by going shopping. For guns and ammo. Yes, as graves were still being dug for tiny coffins in Newtown, Conn., bidding on eBay for four Glock...

The film "Casablanca" has many famous lines, but none more immortal than Capt. Renault's order after seeing a Nazi officer shot by Humphrey Bogart's character, Rick Blaine: "Round up the usual suspects." He issues that command to give the impression he'...

Nancy Lanza's influence on her son was apparent even to the stylists who cut his hair. They said Adam never said a word when his mother brought him in for haircuts every few weeks. Adam Lanza would sit wordlessly in the chair and stare at the floor as...

Christopher Krumm, the 25-year-old Vernon man who killed his father and his father's girlfriend in Casper, Wyo., last month before killing himself,, left behind a lengthy letter expressing anger over inheriting Asperger's syndrome and praising eugenic...

Bob Nobles III plans to be a Santa's helper this year. He will distribute toys and other gifts to young people who come to the Kennedy Krieger Institute's upcoming Festival of Trees. But it won't be the first time that the New Windsor teenager has put...

This time of year, "thankfulness" and "gratitude" are terms folks throw around so much that they almost become greeting card platitudes. Maybe people mean it, maybe they don't. Doctors have linked the concept of gratitude to inner peace, even physical...

Love means never having to say you’re sorry, according to the popular 1970 film “Love Story.” For Tricia Lammers, love for her son meant contacting police to warn them that the young man was prepared to commit mass murder at a Missouri...

With five children, including a son with autism, finding a family outing everyone will enjoy can be a challenge for Vivian Gibbas and her family. But the Aurora mom says she has found bouncing on wall-to-wall trampolines at facilities like Sky High...

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The husband of a Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier has been charged with killing his stepbrother in Wisconsin and burying his body. Police arrested Jeffrey Vogelsberg, 28, at JBLM's main gate Monday, the Tacoma News-Tribune said. At a news conference...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Almost half of children with autism in a new study had run away at least once - and many of them were missing long enough to cause concern. Researchers found that kids most often wandered off from their home, school or a...

David Byrne's lyrics, especially in his early days with Talking Heads, put even the most mundane human behavior underneath a magnifying glass to reveal all its wonder and strangeness. He was the "anthropologist from Mars," instantly staking out a place...