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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.

Fire destroys home on Forest Hill Farm early Tuesday

AEGIS STAFF REPORT — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:00:00 EDT

Fire destroyed a double-wide modular house on a farm in the Forest Hill area early Tuesday morning, Harford County fire officials said.

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.

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.

IronBirds start 2013 campaign on a down note

BY DEWEY FOX, dfox@theaegis.com — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:10:00 EDT

Aberdeen suffers opening-night shutout for first time in club history

The Aberdeen IronBirds have lost on opening night before, but before Monday's 5-0 loss to the Hudson Valley Renegades at Ripken Stadium, they had not been held scoreless in the first game of their season.

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.

Southampton Middle School teacher reaches 40-year milestone at same school

BY HAFIZ RASHID, Special to The Aegis — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:25:00 EDT

Judy Derbyshire started teaching math at Southampton Middle School in the fall of 1973 and has been teaching there ever since.

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.

Aberdeen baseball fans pack Ripken Stadium for 'Birds opener

BY DEWEY FOX, dfox@theaegis.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:56:09 EDT

If the baseball gods have anything against the Aberdeen IronBirds, and it would appear they might as the 11-year-old club has suffered through more than a few tough seasons recently, it did not show on Monday night, when the IronBirds opened their 2013 season at Ripken Stadium to a sell-out crowd and picture-perfect weather, at least at the start.

Harford Sen. Nancy Jacobs says she won't seek re-election

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:09:21 EDT

State Sen. Nancy Jacobs, a Republican representing District 34 that includes parts of Harford and Cecil counties along the Route 40 corridor, announced Tuesday that she will not be seeking re-election next year.