Laurel Leader

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.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from June 4 to 11.

Chelsea Adinuba, a 2021 graduate of Charles Herbert Flowers High School, not only wrote a book, she wrote two before graduating this spring.

The Savage Boys and Girls Club has some sports camp offerings for children this summer.

With the lifting of pandemic restrictions by the state, county and city, Mayor Craig Moe and the Laurel 4th of July Committee have begun planning for a modified 42nd Annual Independence Day Celebration tentatively set for July 3.

Laurel residents making their name at colleges around the U.S.

An Anne Arundel County jury found a suspended Prince George’s County police officer who lives in Laurel guilty of assault, reckless endangerment and a handgun violation for beating his girlfriend in September 2019.

County and state leaders and the University of Maryland Medical System cut the ribbon on the state's first new hospital in 30 years.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from May 27 to June 4.

Six months later, Shawn Price killed Jaime Hunnicutt’s 31-year-old son, her daughter-in-law and shot her 10-year-old grandson multiple times before killing himself, police said.

The Laurel Historical Society is not taking a break for the summer. Instead, the Old Town group is redoubling its efforts to preserve Laurel’s rich history and educate the community about it.

A survey funded by Northeast Maglev of 600 Prince George’s County residents and 600 Anne Arundel County residents found that in both counties over 68% support the construction and operation of a high-speed maglev train between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

After Prince George’s County failed to meet requirements under a municipal stormwater permit, the Maryland Department of the Environment has required it to complete environmental projects that will treat runoff, according to an announcement Tuesday.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from May 21 to 28.

An Anne Arundel County police corporal was arrested early Thursday morning in Howard County after police said he fought with multiple individuals, ran and hid from officers and later kicked an officer in the hand while resisting arrest.

Laurel resident Demond Nicholson has 23 victories in his professional boxing career, but his own personal favorite fight was none of them.

During the second half of the Great Depression, Laurel was led by Everard E. Hatch, a retired army general who waged an unrelenting campaign against lawlessness in all forms. His no-nonsense style of communicating struck a chord with voters, who elected him to two terms as mayor.

Howard Jackson Bradberry Jr., 62, of Laurel, was arrested Tuesday and charged with kidnapping, raping and killing 28-year-old Laney Lee McGadney in Columbia in 1982, the Howard County Police Department announced Thursday.

Soon-to-be Howard Community College graduate Amira Cooper, 20, of Laurel, is one of 72 recipients of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, a national scholarship for community college students.

The month of May had a great start at Bond Mill Elementary School with Teacher Appreciation Week.

Laurel police are investigating a hit-and-run collision that injured two children and left a woman in “critical condition” Wednesday morning, the department said.

The daylong Howard County Pride festival on Oct. 9 will be hosted in coordination with the Inner Arbor Trust at the Chrysalis in Symphony Woods in Columbia, said Jumel Howard, chair of the HoCo Pride group.

Laurel Mayor Craig Moe announced the new appointments of LouAnn Crook to city administrator, Christian Pulley to deputy city administrator and Robert Love to the position of director of the Department of Economic and Community Development.

A sampling of Howard County police reports from May 14 to 21.

Leah Paley, the executive director of Laurel Advocacy and Referral Services, knew that the social services organization she leads was going to receive a donation from Laurel Presbyterian Church. It wasn’t until a presentation on May 12, however, that she knew just how much.

A Laurel woman who was about five months pregnant was fatally shot Wednesday night while riding in a car with her boyfriend and another person, who told police he accidentally fired the gun that killed her.

In an effort to maintain and fund the Patuxent Research Center’s quality of wildlife research, the U.S. Geological Survey merged it a year ago with two of its other science centers and recently announced its new name: the U.S.G.S. Eastern Ecological Science Center at Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel.