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Jenny Krush was named the 2021 St. Joseph School Teacher of the Year by the Knights of Columbus Father O’Neill Council.

With more people seeking solutions for their mental health problems, Baltimore County professional therapists are inundated with requests for services that can only be provided these days through remote counseling sessions, also known as tele-therapy.

Crime log in Towson and Cockeysville precincts.

As a new business adapting to a pandemic, the Touch-Free Wellness Spa on Allegheny Avenue in Towson gives clients an array of affordable massage and spa services without the touch of a massage practitioner or therapist.

Baltimore County coaches try to overcome obstacles

Freshman Tucker scores game-high 19 in Mount St. Joe's victory

Edward R. Daughaday, a retired Baltimore County police officer and World War II Navy veteran, died Feb. 2 at Gilchrist Center Towson of complications from a stroke. The Mays Chapel North resident was 96.

Carrie Engel received a horticulture award and two students at Calvert Hall College High School show their chops in debating.

Towson High School’s Key Club members have been running a food drive to help those in need.

Saying there is a void in leadership in Maryland and across the U.S., former state superintendent of schools Nancy Grasmick is establishing The Dr. Nancy Grasmick Leadership Institute at Towson University this summer.

Shake Shack is set to open its doors in downtown Towson Saturday, the first eatery to come online at the Circle East redevelopment.

Joanne Souris Deitz, who rose to become Baltimore County’s chief purchasing agent and was named the 1970 Towson Woman of the Year, died Feb. 5 at Mercy Ridge Retirement Community in Timonium. She was 90.

Cockeysville Middle School hosted its their first CMS Virtual Fine Arts Winter Gala — online.

Several runners return from strong 2019 teams

Money is a problem for the Maryland State Fair and Agricultural Society, the nonprofit organization that manages the fair. The coronavirus pandemic canceled last year’s state fair and cost the society nearly 80% of its expected revenue.

Two Maryland hospital systems have offered COVID-19 vaccines to all of their board members, officials confirmed, a move that heightens concerns about the well-connected receiving inequitable access amid a global shortage.

Towson and North Dakota State will meet this fall in football for the first time since the 2012 national championship game when North Dakota State won, 35-7.

At a quad-meet on Saturday, Allison Zuhlke became the first gymnast in an NCAA competition to perform the “Zuhlke,” a vault that incorporates a front handspring into the springboard and multiple twists off the vaulting table.

Stoneleigh resident Mia Ye is a gifted pianist and ballet dancer, but it’s singing that is really getting this 12-year-old Roland Park Country School student noticed, locally and internationally.

Baltimore Country Club, one of the oldest and largest private recreational facilities in the region, has received approval from its membership to sell up to 20 acres of land at its Roland Park campus to fund improvements at its Timonium site.

The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro Player of the Year as a junior in 2019 said Loyola Maryland gave her a comforting sense that “just felt right.”

House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, University of Maryland, Baltimore County President Freeman Hrabowski III and local Baltimore County leaders will discuss their "their “successes, the barriers they have faced, and the path forward” during Baltimore County's Black History Month Conversation Series, starting Feb. 3.

The order, which addresses face covering requirements and attendance limits, is effective Monday.

In her first season with the Tigers, the sophomore point guard leads the team and the Colonial Athletic Association in assists per game and 3-point percentage.

Towson University alum Rear Admiral Susan Orsega has been tapped by President Joe Biden’s team to serve as the nation’s acting surgeon general, one of the first nurses to hold the position.

Undeterred by the pandemic, the group Green Towson Alliance kept the Towson community’s green spaces healthy and beautiful throughout last year.

The Greater Baltimore Medical Center Health Care system has administered more than 4,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to staff and seniors older than 74, and plans to begin vaccinating seniors between 65 and 74 on Feb. 1, its chief executive officer said.

Louise K. Emmert, a longtime Baltimore County Public Schools educator who became active at the Bykota Senior Center after the death of her husband, died Jan. 4 from pulmonary hypertension at her home in the Breezewick neighborhood of Towson. She was 72.