Baltimore County

• Crime

Baltimore County Police investigating Landsdowne death as homicide

The Baltimore County Police Department is investigating the death of a man whose body was found slumped outside a Landsdowne apartment complex Saturday morning.

By Mary Carole McCauley

Oct 19, 2019

• Baltimore County

Towson University to name new quad in honor of former minority affairs dean who was ‘an inspiration, a leader’

Just moments before unveiling an outdoor bust in honor of Julius Chapman, the school’s first Dean of Minority Affairs from 1969 to 1981, Towson President Kim Schatzel announced that the surrounding area would soon be turned into a quad where students could gather to study or socialize or do a little of both.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Oct 19, 2019

• Baltimore County Sports

Dulaney boys, girls win cross country titles; Towson’s Sorensen and Dulaney’s Dailey are individual champions

County crown is 7th straight for Dulaney boys

• Baltimore County

Towson Town Center mall evacuated after food court fire, outage

The Towson Town Center closed an hour early Friday night as authorities responded to reports of a fire at the mall's food court, according to Baltimore County Fire Department officials.

By Wilborn P. Nobles III

Oct 19, 2019

• Politics

Who might run for the rare opportunity that is U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings’ seat?

The sudden death of Democrat U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings ― a venerated figure who mentored a younger generation of public servants ― leaves many lawmakers, even while mourning, facing a tough decision.

By Luke Broadwater

Oct 19, 2019

• Baltimore City

Rep. Elijah Cummings will lie in state in U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall; another viewing set for Morgan State

The body of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Baltimore Democrat and committee chairman who died Thursday, will lie in state in National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol next week, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

• Business

Closure of General Motors’ White Marsh plant is official, local union officials told

As auto workers prepare to vote on a proposed deal that could end a 33-day strike against General Motors, local union officials have been told the automaker’s last plant in Maryland, a White Marsh transmission and electric motor factory, will remain closed.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Oct 18, 2019

• Catonsville

Jean Walsh, Catonsville historian and former Catonsville Times editor, dies at 100

Jean Wash, who spent 65 years preserving Catonsville history and a decade as a journalist with the Catonsville Times lauded for her coverage of the Catonsville Nine, died Sunday at 100-years-old.

• Obituaries

Helen Jewel Gray, a Baltimore nurse practitioner, educator and hat collector, dies

Helen Jewel Gray, a nurse practitioner and educator, has died at age 92.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Oct 18, 2019