-
Heather and Kevin Federici, who last year moved from Eldersburg to Elkridge, spend much of their time caring for their daughter Elizabeth. The 4-year-old was born with epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic skin disorder.
- A fire at a Columbia townhouse on Friday afternoon caused an estimated $1 million in damages, officials said.
- The Howard County Board of Education on Thursday determined the health parameters the school system will follow when making reopening decisions in the future.
Most popular Maryland
- On Tuesday, Oct. 27, “Fishbowl,” a movie filmed in Howard and Frederick counties, will be launched on-demand via AppleTV/iTunes and, to celebrate, two showings of the movie will take place outdoors at Historic Savage Mill’s drive-in.
- With horns consistently honking in the background, about 100 parents and students gathered Thursday afternoon outside the Howard County Board of Education headquarters in Ellicott City to advocate for a plan to get kids back into schools for in-person learning.
- The biggest chunk of the money — $100 million — will be used to create an “emergency rapid response fund” for small businesses, so the state can pivot to help hard-hit areas or industries.
- More Howard County residents are voting via mail ballot in the 2020 general election than almost any county in the state, according to data from the Maryland State Board of Elections.
- Howard County police have identified a body that was found earlier this week in Columbia and are investigating the death as a homicide, the department announced Thursday.
-
In rural Howard County, some voters will have to travel twice as far to cast early ballots this year
Howard County voters will have five sites to choose from come the last week of October when in-person early voting starts. Marriotts Ridge High School is the farthest west option Howard early voters will have this year, but it is 10 to 15 miles away from many of the county’s westernmost voters.
Howard County photos
- Baltimore City and Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties have issued their own guidelines for trick-or-treating during the pandemic.
- Roughly 1 in 8 Maryland students have a disability and are guaranteed access to specialized education services by law. But many of those services were altered or cut off when school districts closed buildings in response to the pandemic.
- On Oct. 23, the Little Market Cafe is hosting the Ellicott Silly Comedy Show — Cloned in the courtyard by Tonge Row, off Parking Lot D.
- School leaders said statewide health and safety guidelines would help the public feel more confident about reopening.
- In the past week, 90 to 100 of Howard County’s 1,995 election judges have quit, according to the county Board of Elections. Several have cited the rising number of coronavirus cases as a reason.
- As the Howard County school system and the Board of Education are reexamining the school resource officer program, the union for the district’s administrators has put its support behind keeping police in schools.
- A fire at a Columbia townhouse on Friday afternoon caused an estimated $1 million in damages, officials said.
- A Towson man has been arrested on burglary and assault charges after he walked into an unlocked Towson home, got into an argument with a resident and stole scissors, Baltimore County Police said.
- More than 3,100 Black women across Baltimore have received a brightly colored "Party at the Mailbox" package in the mail this election season, the work of a nonprofit group called Black Girls Vote.
- Sire Great Notion is once again well-represented in Saturday’s 35th Jim McKay Maryland Million program at Laurel Park with 16 entrants in all but three of eight stakes and four starter stakes that comprise “Maryland’s Day at the Races.”
- More than 3,100 Black women across Baltimore have received a brightly colored "Party at the Mailbox" package in the mail this election season, the work of a nonprofit group called Black Girls Vote.
- Corresponding with the official announcement on Monday by the MIAA and IAAM that its member schools will be permitted to move forward with an open schedule this fall, officials from both Chapelgate and Glenelg Country confirmed that they will immediately begin preparations for competition for all its fall programs.
