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Valerie Bradt Hymes, TV and radio reporter who witnessed assassination attempt of George Wallace in Laurel, dies

Valerie Bradt Hymes, a WJZ-TV news reporter who covered the assassination attempt of presidential candidate George Wallace, died Aug. 16 at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center. She was 91.

September 20, 2023

Ex-Catholic cardinal McCarrick, age 93, is not fit to stand trial on teen sex abuse charges

A Massachusetts judge has ruled that a once-powerful Roman Catholic cardinal is not competent to stand trial on charges he sexually assaulted a teenage boy decades ago. The judge dismissed the case against the 93-year-old Theodore McCarrick on Wednesday because both prosecutors and defense attorneys agree he suffers from dementia.

August 30, 2023

Search for state prisoner ends ‘not far from where he escaped’ in Jessup, police say

The prisoner, Randy Morris, 38, escaped the transport van around 8:30 a.m. near Dorsey Run Road and Route 32, and was apprehended later around 6 p.m.

August 17, 2023

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Maryland receives nearly $24 million in installments from opioid settlements

Maryland and most of its localities recently received nearly $24 million as the 2023 installments of payments for settlements aimed at abating the opioid crisis, the office of state Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced Wednesday.

August 17, 2023

Dinosaur hunters find ‘bone bed’ behind Maryland business park with fossils more than 100 million years old

The first prehistoric "bone bed" discovered in Maryland since 1887 is nestled behind a business park in Laurel.

‘Arsons destroy persons’: Former Laurel police chief sentenced to life for Howard County fires

The former Laurel police chief accused in a string of arsons around Maryland was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for the fires he set in Howard County.

Baltimore a wild card in Maryland’s 2024 U.S. Senate race, which so far lacks a hometown candidate

With no Baltimore candidates so far in Maryland's 2024 U.S. Senate race, the area's Democratic voters may be a coveted wild card.

New UM Laurel Medical Center to open June 4; emergency, surgical care but no inpatient beds

The new University of Maryland Laurel Medical Center is poised to open early next month to serve Laurel’s 30,000-some residents and their neighbors with emergency, preventive and behavioral health care, as well as some specialty procedures, but only on an outpatient basis.

Horse racing at Laurel Park could resume Saturday after consultant says dirt surface will be ‘safe enough’

Racing at Laurel Park could resume Saturday after a consultant hired by the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association found only modest problems with the track’s dirt surface during his inspection Wednesday morning.

Horsemen, Maryland Jockey Club search for compromise on Laurel Park track surface as racing remains on hold

An inspection of the Laurel Park surface could allow horse racing to return as soon as Friday following a deal struck days after two horses were euthanized at the Maryland racetrack.

Racing suspended at Laurel Park a day after two horses suffered fatal injuries

The Maryland Jockey Club on Friday indefinitely suspended racing at Laurel Park, a day after two horses suffered fatal injuries in races.

Victims of fatal Baltimore Beltway construction site crash were related, by blood or by work

The six construction workers who died together Wednesday afternoon after two cars collided on the Baltimore Beltway had differing paths to a common workplace.

Jockey ties major record at Laurel Park with seven wins in one day

A jockey from Puerto Rico tied the record for most wins in a single card at Laurel Park on Friday.

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Ex-Laurel police chief contacted victims after fires: ‘Arson is one of the most difficult crimes to solve’

David Crawford put flame to one couple's home twice, according to prosecutors, inflicting devastating losses on the family while eerily maintaining friendly contact with them.

Former Laurel police chief craved authority, set fires for revenge, Howard prosecutors say

Former Laurel police chief David Crawford, who is charged with intentionally igniting a dozen retaliatory fires throughout central Maryland over a decade, is standing trial for the first time in Howard County.

‘I want the world to see’: Holocaust survivor Lilly Malnik of Clarksville shares Auschwitz stories on TikTok

94-year-old Lilly Malnik, of Clarksville, has gone viral on TikTok by sharing first-person accounts of her Holocaust experiences.

February 28, 2023

Laurel man sentenced to 25 years for murder of Columbia woman in 40-year-old cold case

DNA tests from early 2021 linked Howard Jackson Bradberry, Jr. to the 1982 kidnapping of Columbia resident Laney Lee McGadney, according to the Office of the State’s Attorney for Howard County.

January 05, 2023

16-year-old boy from Washington, D.C., identified as gunshot victim found in burned-out car in Laurel, police say

A 16-year-old boy from Washington D.C. was identified as the gunshot victim found in the backseat of a burned-out car in Laurel, Anne Arundel County Police announced Tuesday.

December 27, 2022

Laurel man arrested in connection with gun discharge at Arundel Mills Mall

Anne Arundel County Police arrested a Laurel man on a warrant for misdemeanor offenses alleging he discharged a gun in the food court at Arundel Mills Mall in October, causing shoppers to panic as the mall was evacuated.

November 17, 2022

‘A place to begin to heal’: Fort Meade opens a resiliency center for those who bear the weight of secret, stressful missions

At Fort Meade, where the work is often secret and stressful, a new center opens to ease the mental toll.

November 16, 2022

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Baltimore museum exhibit about the Great Migration gives Laurel artist chance to ‘let go of the past,’ heal family ties

With the work of a dozen artists, "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration" at the Baltimore Museum of Art explores the exodus of some 6 million Black Americans who left the South to resettle in northern cities.

November 04, 2022

Amid stalled improvements to Pimlico, Laurel Park horse racing tracks, owner could sell Laurel to a state-run authority

Supporters had hoped construction could begin next summer to revamp the historic Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. But the Maryland Stadium Authority says that timetable "is no longer realistic.”

November 04, 2022

Laurel man sentenced to 17 years for mailing drugs from California to Maryland

A federal judge sentenced a Laurel man to 17 years in prison Thursday after finding he distributed large amounts of cocaine, fentanyl and marijuana through the U.S. Postal Service, mailing them from post offices in California to multiple locations in Maryland.

October 21, 2022

Anne Arundel police investigating body found in burned-out car in Laurel

Investigators discovered charred remains in the backseat of a burned-out car 100 yards off the road in the area of Brock Bridge Road and Tribeca Trail.

September 28, 2022

‘I’m thanking God’: Jury acquits Laurel man in 2021 murder at Severn party

The two-week murder trial against a Laurel man accused of fatally stabbing 28-year-old Deontae Swingler at a birthday party in Severn last year ended Friday afternoon after jurors spent roughly an hour and a half deliberating several homicide counts.

September 09, 2022

Toxic algal blooms found in T. Howard Duckett Reservoir in Laurel; utility warns against touching water

High concentrations of blue-green algae have been found in the T. Howard Duckett Reservoir, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission said Thursday.

September 08, 2022

Tractor-trailer driver dies in two-vehicle crash in Laurel Wednesday

I-95 was partially closed for more than six hours after the crash, according to state police.

September 07, 2022

Laurel man convicted of first-degree murder for 2020 death of Essex man

A Baltimore County jury convicted a Laurel man of first-degree murder Tuesday for the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Zeshaan Toppa in October 2020.

August 31, 2022

James C. ‘Jim’ Riss, beloved Oakland Mills High football and lacrosse coach who worked with at-risk students, dies at 57

Riss was known for his trademark coaching maxims and a perpetually upbeat attitude, mindsets he embodied during his more than year-long battle with cancer following his diagnosis in June 2021.

August 26, 2022

Columbia man charged in string of three robberies in Glen Burnie, Odenton

Anne Arundel County Police identified a 23-year-old Columbia man as a suspect in three armed robberies throughout the summer, and arrested him Thursday after he and his fiancé attempted to trade in a suspect vehicle at a Howard County car dealership.

August 26, 2022

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