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Firefighters battle blaze at Joppa hardware store Tuesday evening

BY DAVID ANDERSON, daanderson@baltsun.com — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:01:59 EDT

Anderson Hardware building extensively damaged; two firefighters suffer non-life threatening injuries

About 80 firefighters from Harford and Baltimore counties responded Tuesday evening for a working building fire that caused $1 million in losses to an iconic hardware store in Joppa. Officials from the first fire company on the scene said the blaze escalated to the equivalent of three alarms.

Details of Super Pond deaths expected at hearing

By Matthew Hay Brown , The Baltimore Sun — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:06:00 EDT

Two senior enlisted leaders face charges in deaths of two elite Navy divers

Details of the accident at Aberdeen Proving Ground that left two members of an elite Navy dive unit dead in February will be aired in public for the first time Wednesday, when military lawyers hold a preliminary hearing into possible criminal charges.

Harford council hears more testimony in Evergreen case

BY BRYNA ZUMER, bzumer@theaegis.com — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:10:00 EDT

The Harford County Council continued listening to testimony in a zoning case for a 197-unit development proposed south of Bel Air, without taking a vote.

Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground won't be reopening

BY DAVID ANDERSON, daanderson@baltsun.com — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:00:00 EDT

Army officials are canceling plans to reopen the former Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground as the APG Museum.

Police blotter

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:08:26 EDT

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Lack of Harford school funding hits teachers, students, parents

BY DAVID ANDERSON, daanderson@baltsun.com — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:05:00 EDT

Veteran Harford County Public Schools educator Barbara Boksz has spent the past week looking through her options since learning she was one of 46 teachers and other school staffers to lose their jobs, the result of a slew of measures approved by the Board of Education to reconcile its budget for the 2014 fiscal year this month.

Man accused of pointing gun at people in Edgewood

BY BRYNA ZUMER, bzumer@theaegis.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:53:00 EDT

A man who may be homeless was charged with pointing a gun at people twice in Edgewood Thursday, according to charging documents.

Harford Historical Society to hold annual benefit yard sale Saturday

Special to The Aegis — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Event will feature antiques, vintage furnishings from Graybeal/Eagle Family

The Historical Society of Harford County's annual benefit yard sale will take place this Saturday, June 22, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Historical Society's headquarters at 143 N. Main St.

More incidents plague Edgewood's Grempler Way, site of shooting last week

BY BRYNA ZUMER, bzumer@theaegis.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:23:00 EDT

Gunplay, reports of gunplay, multiple possible victims keep police investigators busy

Grempler Way in Edgewood just had a rough week as far as police activity.

Bel Air commissioners vote down pension fund proposal

BY DAVID ANDERSON, daanderson@baltsun.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:28:36 EDT

The Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners unanimously voted against a budget amendment Monday that would have put $55,000 in savings from a recent capital project toward the town employee pension funds, which are short by more than $100,000 for the 2013 fiscal year.