DEAR AMY: How do I keep a relationship casual with a friend whose hobby is creating drama?

OAKLAND — Kara Taylor didn’t expect to need the assistance of the Garrett County Home Health program, but when a complication from gallbladder surgery left the 29-year-old with an abdominal drain for a week, the program was what allowed her to come home sooner.

DEAR DOCTOR: Recently, my skin became irritated and started blistering. I was diagnosed with lichen planus, which I’m told is pretty common. What is it? How can people deal with the irritation and itchiness it causes?

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — Flight 93 National Memorial recently opened a special exhibit, Memories from the Memorial — Looking Back 2001-2011, at the Flight 93 Learning Center.

DR. WALLACE: You keep saying that sex breaks up more relationships than it makes stronger. But my guy and I now are blissfully in love because we make love almost every time we go out. We are both 18, and it’s easy for us to hook up regularly since he has a van with a bed in the back! We jus…

FROSTBURG — Mountain Ridge High School announced its honor roll for the fourth marking period of the school year.

‘Annie Get Your Gun’ at the Palace

DEAR AMY: Last Saturday morning, my husband and I went to our favorite diner for breakfast.

 Editor’s note: Each week “Miner Recollections” will spotlight Georges Creek coal heritage, and the sacrifices made by those who mined it, by drawing upon biographical sketches, family narratives and historical research.The deaths of two miners, David E. Lewis and Henry Ellis, caused quite a…

DEAR AMY: I recently took my two granddaughters (ages 13 and 15) to Paris for their first trip overseas.

DEAR DOCTOR: How bad are cleaning products for our lungs? My mom keeps talking about a news story that said chemicals in cleaning products are as dangerous as cigarettes. Is my clean kitchen killing me?

BALTIMORE — The University of Maryland, Baltimore Police Department joins only two other university police departments in the nation with a K-9 comfort dog program. “Officer” Lexi, an Australian shepherd mix, is the department’s first resident comfort dog.