Family

Emily Lindgren has two years of eligibility remaining at the girls junior curling division. But she’s seriously considering this to be her...

Is it important to you that your children grow up to be generous people? If so, what kind of things does your family do to help instill this value (which can be taught through small acts of giving or sharing)? Please send an email to pknudson@gfherald.com and we may include...

Beckett Eickenbrock weighed only two pounds 12 ounces when he was born Oct. 24, 2009, two months earlier than expected. His mother, Dr. Andrea Eickenbrock, had just finished an overnight 14-hour shift at a Phoenix, Ariz., hospital, where she worked as a first-year resident in an...

FARGO -- When kids are covered in food, grime and other assorted sticky stuff, their toys and gadgets inevitably become covered in those substances, too. To illustrate just how dirty kids’ toys can be, Birgit Pruess, North Dakota State University Department of Veterinary...

Many of us have a pretty good handle on living expenses — rent, car payment, mortgage, utilities, gas, food and the like — but some expenses can catch us by surprise and derail the household budget big-time. A survey released this fall by American Express found that...

Danny Owen remembers the turning point, an altercation with his brother many years ago — that led him to get the mental health care he needed and, eventually, to a better relationship with his family. He came home drunk one night and "got into a physical fight" with his...

For Ordean Thompson, lutefisk -- that Norwegian delicacy that has passed from generation to generation -- is a rare holiday treat. But these days, lutefisk is simply becoming rare, as fewer and fewer eateries offer the lye-soaked cod delicacy with the either-love-it-or-hate-it...

FARGO -- I was raised in a family that loves tradition, especially when it comes to the Christmas holidays. Our house was trimmed with a giant, real Douglas fir tree. Colorful Christmas decorations could be found in every corner, and throughout the season my mother...

FARGO – Nine days before Christmas, Quang Son touches the soggy gold star sagging from the top of his Christmas tree. The tree is still technically standing, but like most of the rest of the family’s belongings, it’s probably too smoke-damaged to be worth hanging...

An Iraq War veteran sought in the killing of six family members in Pennsylvania was found dead on Tuesday of "self-inflicted cutting wounds" following a two-day manhunt, authorities said.

BRAINERD, Minn. -- This holiday season, Brenda Jonak is thankful her daughter and her family are alive. "I would probably be planning funerals instead of buying Christmas presents. No words can express the gratitude I feel," she wrote in a letter to the city, thanking them...