Twins

I was watching "Phineas and Ferb" with my kids the other day (don't laugh) when a commercial came on previewing an upcoming episode. This episode featured the "Were-cow" just in time for the Halloween season. Without a beat, my son said, "Dad, I'll bet...

Within an hour after an East Baltimore man died while in police custody, Cortly "C.D." Witherspoon got an urgent phone call from someone with connections to the family, asking for his help. The next day, Witherspoon, a 30-year-old clergyman and single...

For the dairy farmer, the word "twin" may as well be a cuss word. In fact, it is a four letter word, isn't it?     But seriously, few farmers would ever wish that on any of their cows. One might think that twins is two for the price of one, but we all...

Baby Gabriel Lee Friedline, died Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. He was born on July 7, 2012, the son of Lee A. and Katelyn  M. (Lasure) Friedline of Bedford. Survived by parents and identical twin brother, Liam George Friedline at home; maternal grandparents,...

Kiersten Marie Clavier, 17, of East Jordan, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City. She was born March 29, 1995, in Charlevoix, to David J. and Lisa L. (Burks) Clavier. Kiersten attended East Jordan Public Schools and had...

Jean E. Breiner, a registered nurse who had been the school nurse at Padonia Elementary School for more than two decades, died Friday of myleoid leukemia at her Timonium home. She was 77. The daughter of a truck driver and a homemaker, the former Jean...

Before Aiesha Eddins got pregnant, she didn't give much thought to her diet. "I ate whatever," said the 27-year-old Owings Mills woman. "We ordered take-out." But when she weighed in at 220 pounds during her initial prenatal visit, she quickly earned...

People with a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder can often shake their family tree and find a relative who has also contended with obsessive thoughts, hoarding, repetitive hand-washing, behavior in which locks and stove burners are checked over...

Mariah Carey, she of the five-octave vocal range, is showing off her new figure. The platinum pop diva, who gave birth to twins in April, recently dropped 30 pounds -- but that's not all that's changed. Carey says pregnancy has made her voice stronger....

A month after Anabella and Matteus Potter were born in 2009, their parents, Adriana and Robert, agreed to disagree on what to do with two other embryos created in the same petri dish as their twins. Grateful for the in vitro fertilization that enabled...

An appointment with a pediatrician Thursday was a "big relief" to Katie Bauer, whose seven-month pregnancy with rare "momo" twins was at first confusing and then exhausting. "It's all behind them, these guys are doing just fine," Dr. Joseph A. Garcia...

Brooks and Nolan Bauer, a rare set of "momo" twins, are finally home with their parents in White Marsh. "They were really premature, eight weeks early," Katie Bauer said Saturday, recounting the first time she saw her sons. "They told us they might be on...