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Debutante balls have been carried on for generations among Black middle- and upper-class families. Originally meant to introduce young adults to potential husbands and wives, they have evolved into building professional networks and long-lasting social circles.
- After thunderstorms produced 1 to 2 inches of rain Sunday evening, a flood warning was issued for Baltimore and the surrounding area beginning around 10 p.m. and lasting until 4:15 a.m. Monday.
- Columnist Susan Soldavin shares information about people and places and events happening in and around Clarksville.
- Vivian C. “Millie” Bailey, a World War II veteran who served in the Army as unit commander of an all-female detachment who later worked for the Social Security Administration and became a Howard County community activist, died of a stroke Sunday. She was 104.
- A Columbia-based financial services firm is trying to entice workers to join and stay by offering to pay their college debt.
- A 17-year-old boy is in the custody of Howard County Police after a stabbing at Long Reach High School sent a student to the hospital with serious injuries, police said.
- According to data from state regulators, the number of medical cannabis patients in the state has been growing at its slowest rate since the program kicked off sales in 2017. Some say that's not a concern, just part of the industry’s natural course.
- A 76-unit affordable housing project in Columbia that will support people living with disabilities has been unanimously approved by the Howard County Council.
- Jerome “Jerry” Hantman, Howard County’s first cardiologist who grew his private practice into an advanced cardiology facility and continued to volunteer at free heart clinics later in life, died March 28 from the progression of Parkinson’s disease at his Columbia home. He was 80.
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- This week, Howard men's lacrosse became the first No. 1 ranked team at the school in any sport since the athletic department opened in 1977. But the Dragons are determined not to let the fast start go to their heads, columnist Mike Preston writes.
- Henry Waskey, 29, started collecting bottles as a kid while out for walks with his dad.“We came across some old bottles and brought them home and did research,” Waskey said. “Next thing you know, we’re out actually looking for them.”
- The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club will host its one-day bottle show April 3 at Howard County Fairgrounds for the first time in its 41-year history.
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Strong community support for inclusive housing plan in Columbia during Howard County Council hearing
More than 20 people testified at the Howard County Council meeting Monday, urging approval of a special financial agreement and an ordinance waiver that would allow the Patuxent Commons project in Columbia to proceed. Plans call for a 76-unit affordable apartment complex on a wooded lot at the northeast corner of Cedar Lane and Freetown Road. Of those 76 units, 19 would be set aside for people with disabilities. - A 47-year-old Frederick man has been charged with human trafficking after Howard County Police said Monday that he was running a prostitution business out of a Columbia apartment.
- A two-alarm fire broke out on the roof at the Lincoln College of Technology in East Columbia on Sunday, fire officials said.
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- A Rockville man was charged this week with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl who was his student at the Soundcheck Rock Academy, formerly known as Columbia Rock School, a performance-based music school in Howard County, according to police.
- Howard County Police are investigating a nonfatal shooting in Columbia on Sunday afternoon in which two people were shot. Both victims have non-life-threatening injuries, the department said in a news release.
- Leonard Cosby Simmons, a retired state administrator in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and early Columbia resident, died of heart failure Jan. 13 at Montgomery County Hospital in Olney. He was 91.
- A proposed north/south connector from the U.S. Route 29/Broken Land Parkway interchange to Little Patuxent Parkway, referred to as the “jug handle,” received several comments of support during a Howard County Department of Transportation meeting late last month.
- A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed in the Village of Owen Brown in Columbia on Saturday night, police said.
- 1,000 runners participated in the 2022 Little Patuxent River Half Marathon & 10K organized by "ripit events" in Columbia. Starting and finishing at the Guilford Pratt Truss Bridge, runners ran on the Patuxent and Wincopin trails, along the Little Patuxent and Middle Patuxent Rivers, Saturday February 6, 2022.
- A carjacking surge has prompted federal law enforcement to increase coordination with local agencies “to investigate and disrupt a rash of violent carjackings in and around the Baltimore area,” the Federal Bureau of Investigations Baltimore field office has announced.
- A carjacking surge has prompted federal law enforcement to increase coordination with local agencies “to investigate and disrupt a rash of violent carjackings in and around the Baltimore area,” the Federal Bureau of Investigations Baltimore field office has announced.
- Three juveniles and an 18-year-old were arrested Tuesday after a Washington, D.C., police officer said he was shot at while responding to a burglary at a Metropolitan Police Department evidence lot in Anne Arundel County.
- President Joe Biden took aim at Russia and a changing world at the keynote address at the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduation ceremony, where he also hailed late Naval officer Sen. John McCain.
- Graduates ranging in age from 16 to 68 years old were celebrated Wednesday during Carroll Community College’s 29th commencement, the first in-person ceremony since 2019.
- A carjacking surge has prompted federal law enforcement to increase coordination with local agencies “to investigate and disrupt a rash of violent carjackings in and around the Baltimore area,” the Federal Bureau of Investigations Baltimore field office has announced.