Randallstown

Husband charged in Woodlawn beating

A Woodlawn woman beaten with a brick in her home Thursday remained in critical but stable condition yesterday, and her husband, whom police revived after an apparent suicide attempt, is charged in the attack, Baltimore County police said. Officers responding to a report of an injured person arrived at 3:30 a.m. Thursday to the home in the first block of Greenapple Court and found Evelyn Macklin, 66, suffering from a large head wound, said Cpl. Michael Hill, a police spokesman. Police found her husband, John W. Macklin, 71, trying to hang himself, Hill said. He was taken to Northwest Hospital Center; his condition was not revealed yesterday. Macklin has been charged with attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault, according to electronic court records. Evelyn Macklin, who was initially found by her stepdaughter, is being treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, Hill said.

Glimpsed

Marion Greenidge

Marion Greenidge is a compliance associate at T. Rowe Price, but we think she knows how to make fashion comply as well. When we "glimpsed" her at Cibo Bar & Grille in Owings Mills, it was obvious the 29-year-old Randallstown resident had a flair and know-how to mix and match items to create her "fearless, chic, sexy, unique" style.

Psychiatric care delay in spotlight

The Maryland Insurance Administration is investigating complaints that some psychiatric patients have been forced to wait hours - in some cases, several days - to be hospitalized because their insurance companies have not responded quickly when emergency room doctors called to verify coverage.The Baltimore health department has sent the state agency information about 10 cases in recent months in which patients endured long waits to be admitted to hospitals because their insurance companies could not be reached for approval.

Man dies in crash on Liberty Road

A man was killed early yesterday when his car overturned on Liberty Road near the Beltway after striking a traffic island and a light pole and going airborne, Baltimore County police said. The man, identified as Zachary Alan Harrison, 50, of the 6000 block of Prince George St. in Woodlawn, was driving a 2005 Volkswagen east on Liberty Road near Abbie Place when the crash occurred about 2:10 a.m., police said. Harrison, who was alone in the car, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Liberty Road, U.S. 40 set for repairs

The State Highway Administration said yesterday that it was beginning work on separate highway improvement projects on Liberty Road in Randallstown and on Pulaski Highway at Middle River Road near Middle River.

2 teenagers held in killing

Two teenagers were ordered held without bail yesterday in the death of a Randallstown High School student who was stabbed and stomped to death after his fellow Bloods gang members found messages on his phone that suggested he was gay.

Stroke kills Balto. Co. SWAT unit commander

A veteran Baltimore County police officer and the longtime commander of the department's tactical unit died Monday of a stroke he suffered a day earlier after leading the investigation into a murder-suicide in Randallstown.

Randallstown man kills wife, himself

A Randallstown man shot and killed his wife in the basement of the couple's home in the 4200 block of Mary Ridge Drive before turning the gun on himself yesterday, Baltimore County police said.

Life of 'K-Swift' remembered

The thousands of fans who filed into Morgan State University's auditorium for Khia Edgerton's funeral yesterday could recite her accomplishments: recording artist, radio personality, leader of an underground music movement.

2 teens injured in Gwynn Oak fire

Two teenagers were treated for minor injuries after a fire damaged a rowhouse in the 7100 block of N. Alter St. in Gwynn Oak yesterday afternoon, Baltimore County fire officials said.

Assault victim hears apology

More than four years after a fistfight in the parking lot of Randallstown High School sparked gunfire that wounded four students, the man who provided the gun to the shooters looked at the most severely injured victim in a Baltimore County courtroom yesterday and said he was sorry.

Dan Rodricks: Story of a priest, a dentist, a BMW

Did you hear the one about the priest and the dentist who go to Africa? They meet a doctor who runs a little hospital. The doctor asks the priest and the dentist for help. They agree. What happens? The dentist wins a Republican primary and the priest gets a BMW from a locksmith in Randallstown.

Names in the news

•The American Board of Clinical Lipidology has awarded Dr. Louis B. Malinow diplomate status, which certifies him as a specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of cholesterol disorders.

Whatever happened to... Patches?

His real name is Jarrett Lickle, he's 82, and he lives in retirement in a Sparks condominium. He works out at his gym, writes poetry for fun and enjoys meeting up with old and new friends at Baltimore County restaurants. He remains a confirmed creature of the night and does not answer the phone during the day, when he sleeps.

All-Baltimore County: Girls basketball

Player of the Year

All-Baltimore County: Boys basketball

Player of the Year

The Sun Poll -- Education

Grasmick gets a C-plus

Nancy S. Grasmick, the state's long-serving schools superintendent who is fighting to keep her job, gets a C-plus from Maryland voters, according to a new Sun poll. And fewer than a third think she should have been given a new four-year term.

At 40, library changes with times

Bonnie Pogash grew up in Randallstown, and she remembers getting kicked out of the community library about four decades ago as a teenager for giggling too loudly. Today, no one seems to mind a little youthful chatter in the library.