Between working families and single-parent households that have to balance child care and their child’s learning, to parents with special education students, the virtual learning model caused by the coronavirus pandemic could be devastating for Howard County, some say.

Farm stands in Ellicott City are providing fresh produce, meats, cheeses and more during the coronavirus pandemic.

As the beginning of the 2020 school year approaches, Maryland counties are announcing plans and guidelines for holding classes while containing the spread of coronavirus.

By McKenna Oxenden

Aug 12, 2020

Lauretta Dorsey Young, who taught for decades at the Baltimore School for the Arts and earlier performed with leading opera companies, died of complications from Parkinson’s disease and dementia Aug. 5 at Stella Maris Hospice. The former Hamilton resident was 77.

By Jacques Kelly

Aug 12, 2020

Harford, Howard and Carroll counties were collectively awarded nearly $4.8 million in federal grants to improve their bus systems — the only three Maryland jurisdictions to receive that funding.

When word got around that Tropical Storm Isaias was coming through the mid-Atlantic last week, many Ellicott City residents started what has become a regular process of preparation for possible flooding.

A conservative legal group has sued a Maryland police department for copies of any body camera videos of a fatal shooting of Duncan Lemp, a man whose family says he was asleep in his bedroom when police opened fire.

The Howard County Office of Human Rights is set to begin a free five-part workshop series later this month, “Humanity Matters: Honest Dialogues About Race, Class and Culture in Howard County.”

A Public Service Commission staff report found that BGE’s gas and electric facilities involved in a gas explosion at an office building in Columbia a year ago did not conform to the minimum safety standard. Report made public on the day two people were killed and seven injured in a massive gas explosion in Northwest Baltimore.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Aug 11, 2020

Ellicott City native Taylor Fields reeled in and landed a 77-pound white marlin on Aug. 7, and with it secured the team aboard the "Drillin & Billin" boat a second-place finish and $1.76 million in prize money at the annual White Marlin Open in Ocean City.

"You have no idea what teachers have done to change how they teach to accommodate their students and engage them. They spend hours learning, researching and writing lessons to reach each child. They want to return to what they signed up for. Teaching is a people job, and they’ve been robbed."

A sampling of Howard County police reports from July 30-Aug. 6.