Laurel Leader

As the new executive director of Animal Welfare Society of Howard County, Robert Hicks is spearheading the project to get the society up and running by cutting through the red tape to get the proper documents in place and with old-fashioned elbow grease to bring it up to standards.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from July 16 to 23.

Barron, 47, a defense attorney, has been a member of the House of Delegates since 2015. Before that, he worked stints as a federal prosecutor, as an assistant state’s attorney in Prince George’s County and Baltimore and for then-Sen. Joe Biden between 2007 and 2009.

Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal pedestrian collision that occurred in Laurel early Friday morning.

The backlog of Baltimore-area criminal cases includes those of a police sergeant accused of assault, an alleged drug conspiracy involving a prominent defense attorney, and a husband accused of murdering his wife and blaming a panhandler.

A Maryland police department is settling a workplace discrimination lawsuit that alleged white officers used racist slurs, circulated text messages expressing a desire to “reinstitute lynching” and put a black face and Afro wig on a training dummy.

Prince George’s County middle school students are competing in this year’s President Barack Obama Legacy Speeches Oratorical Contest. Students will deliver abbreviated excerpts of past Obama speeches.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from July 9 to 16.

Transit experts, MARC rider advocates and some state lawmakers want the Maryland Transit Administration to take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic’s disruption of commuting patterns to consider new rail schedules and stops.

Laurel police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect in the armed robbery of an armored vehicle in Laurel on Monday afternoon, the department said Tuesday.

Around 40 businesses are set to participate in the biannual Howard County Restaurant Weeks & Craft Beverages event, which runs July 12 to 25.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from July 2 to 9.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from June 25 to July 2.

Fort Meade George G. Meade has fully implemented all 18 elements of the Tenant Bill of Rights for residents living in housing managed and maintained by Corvias, the installation’s housing partner.

Competing at the U.S. Olympic trials in the 800-meter race at the end of June — she qualified with a personal-best performance at a national high school indoor meet in January — 17-year-old Laurel resident Juliette Whittaker showed she belonged among the best in the country.

The Howard County Arts Council has announced the 12 sites and sculptures selected for ARTsites 2021, a public art exhibit that will be installed in August and remain in place until July 2022.

The water feature at Emancipation Community Park, which sits adjacent to the Laurel Library along Eighth Street, is operational again after the feature was not turned on in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions.

The fish-planter project features 35 wood cutouts of fish painted and decorated by local artists and planted alongside native plants in 10 planters along Laurel’s Main Street, from the municipal pool to the train station.

The Bowie Baysox will host the “Star Spangled 4th of July Concert & Fireworks Spectacular” at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Prince George’s Stadium.

The Laurel Museum reopened to the public Saturday, with new exhibits about the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and a mostly canceled 150th Laurel anniversary celebration, and is now open every weekend.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from June 18 to 25.

The recent — and brief — gas shortage when the Colonial Pipeline experienced a ransomware attack was just a blip compared with two separate gas shortages in the 1970s. Recent photos of people filling up every conceivable type of container with gasoline triggered memories of coping with much more serious shortages.

A look back at the details of everything we know from the day police say a gunman blasted through the newsroom’s Annapolis office and shot and killed Rebecca Smith, Wendi Winters, Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman and John McNamara.

Four star athletes from Laurel play baseball for the Salisbury Sea Gulls and recently won the Coast to Coast Athletic Conference National Championship.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from June 11 to 18.

As a way to earn their Bronze Awards, the highest honor a junior Girl Scout can earn, members of Girl Scout Troop 4507 in Laurel worked together to provide supplies to the Canine Humane Network in Olney.

Severna Park (16-0) crushed visiting Laurel, 20-0, in five innings while Sherwood (13-0) slipped by previously undefeated Dulaney, 3-1, during state semifinal play Wednesday.

The commencement at St. Vincent Pallotti High School on May 26 not only celebrated graduating seniors, but it also marked the school’s 100th commencement and the retirement of a beloved teacher after nearly half of a century.