- Mount de Sales track star Juliette Whittaker ran one of fastest 800-meter high school girls races ever at the Virginia Showcase earlier this month.
- A Catonsville man has died after a multi-vehicle crash on I-95 in Halethorpe Tuesday afternoon, police said.
- Miriam DeCosta-Willis, a retired University of Maryland, Baltimore County professor who received master’s and doctoral degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, died last week, according to the University of Memphis.
- Leading scorer was also named to the CAA Conference All-Defensive Team
- Saying there is inadequate oversight to combat possible fraud, waste and abuse within Baltimore County Public Schools, County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. is pushing for a state bill that would empower the County Office of the Inspector General to act with discretionary oversight of the school system.
- Citing a lack of transparency and communication from Baltimore County Public Library leadership and seeking healthcare benefits for almost half of the library system’s workforce, library employees are trying to unionize.
- Local police reports from the Wilkens Precinct for late December and early January.
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- Amid the continued surge of COVID-19 infections statewide, the Baltimore County Public School system announced late Monday afternoon that the 2020-21 winter athletic season has been canceled.
- Baltimore County police say an Arbutus man has died after the driver of a car in which he was a passenger drove through a red light and struck a sports utility vehicle in Arbutus on Sunday night.
- Thomas J. Tallent, a retired Sykesville postmaster who enjoyed singing songs from the 1940s and 1950s, has died at 91.
- Danita Tolson, chair for the undergraduate program for nursing at Coppin State University, has been tapped by Anthony Fugett to take over as branch president. Fugett, who led the county’s NAACP branch for 20 years, said he would continue to serve on the executive committee of the county NAACP branch in an advisory function.
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- A 68-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint while on an early morning walk in Catonsville, police say.
- With renewed passion, Arbutus resident Jake “The Snake” Smith, a former pro boxer, has moved his Baltimore Boxing & Fitness gym from Fells Point, where it operated for 29 years, to Linthicum Heights.
- A look back at the top teams and athletes from the Catonsville High School fall sports programs between 2010 and 2019.
- A tenant at Lakeside Homes in Lansdowne is suing the public housing complex’s property management company for failing to address “dangerous conditions” in her apartment, the lawsuit alleges, while an attorney with Maryland Legal Aid says longstanding structural and public health issues are widespread across the property, and have been ongoing for years.
- Snow began to fall in the Baltimore County region Wednesday. A winter weather advisory remains in effect until 1 a.m. Thursday.
- Dr. William G. Rothstein, a founding faculty member of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and an expert in the history of medicine in the United States, died Dec. 5 in Jarrettsville of complications from a stroke. The longtime Pikesville resident was 83.
- Virginia L. “Jinny” Streckfus, a retired Howard County General Hospital registered nurse who was an advocate for her Inner Harbor neighborhood, died Saturday of cancer. She was 85.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci recently spoke out about the input of Black scientists in the coronavirus vaccine process and highlighted the work of a University of Maryland, Baltimore County graduate, Dr. Kizzmekia “Kizzy” Corbett.
- Baltimore County has hired a third-party contractor to resume water billing for residents and businesses that have been delayed since April after Baltimore City stopped meter readings amid the coronavirus pandemic.
- As coronavirus cases continue to rise, many consumers have ramped up a trend that has evolved over recent years — online shopping — causing many small retailers to struggle and to come up with ways to adapt to the times.
- Sonia Alcántara-Antoine has been hired as Baltimore County Public Library's fifth director, the first person of color to hold the position. She will replace Paula Miller, the first woman to direct the library, when she begins in February.
- Guinness Brewery has donated $1 million to help support three key areas in the Baltimore region’s Black community including: community empowerment, economic justice and equal representation.
- Baltimore County’s busiest healthcare center currently operates in the basement at Baltimore County Public Library’s Woodlawn branch — by the summer, local officials hope to open a new Woodlawn Health Center at the O.W.E. Center in Security Square Mall.
- A woman and two men police say committed a slew of armed robberies in Catonsville and the surrounding area last month have been arrested and charged with armed robbery, assault and other charges.
- Charles Talbott “Bunky” Shaab, a retired executive at the old First National Bank, has died at 81