Larry Aaron III, a Marshall football player and Oakland Mills alumnus, spent his winter break with old friends and his girlfriend, including on New Year’s Eve. But that night his life took a violent turn.
The snowstorm hitting the region Wednesday closed Howard County schools and offices, as well as the county’s Circuit and District courts. Officials have prohibited parking on streets designated as snow emergency routes. As of 10:15 a.m., there were no reported power outages or road closures, according...
Howard County’s Board of Education on Tuesday approved an operating budget request that nears $1 billion, but nevertheless trims $25.7 million off the proposal made last month by Superintendent Michael Martirano. The board voted to advance a $972.7 million spending plan to County Executive Calvin...
Mt. Hebron indoor track and field coach Teyarnte Carter has rarely talked about a team championship with her athletes this winter. The topic was not a point of emphasis ahead of the Howard County championships on Jan. 15, when the Vikings placed third, and it did not come up before they secured...
Nearing the tail end of a season filled with more than its fair share of moral victories, Glenelg girls basketball is beginning to pile up the tangible results as well. The latest triumph came on Tuesday evening against Wilde Lake, with the Gladiators starting fast and maintaining that advantage...
Sitting at 12-2 in league play and 16-2 overall, Atholton has by far the best chance to secure the 2018-19 Howard County boys basketball county title. But right behind the Raiders are Wilde Lake and Oakland Mills, and both teams kept their hopes of winning a county title alive with victories Tuesday...
See the seeds for all 14 weight classes for the 2A-1A South region wrestling tournament being held Feb. 23, 2019 at River Hill High School. NOTE: Seeds are subject to change based on scratches/injuries.
More Howard County high school students took Advanced Placement exams last year than in 2016, but demographic gaps between student groups that participate in the testing have widened. In the past two years, the number of exams taken by Howard students increased by nearly 800, from 10,541 in 2016...
Howard County students will have to wait an extra four days to start summer vacation this June. The county school system announced Monday — following the closure of schools that day due to snow and ice — that all four of its “inclement weather make-up days” have been used. As a result, schools...
Crews responded Tuesday to several reports of downed trees and fallen power lines in Howard County, State Highway Administration officials said. SHA had about nearly 40 pieces of equipment operating throughout the county Tuesday, according to spokeswoman Shanteé Felix. Officials posted on the department’s...
A 29-year-old Prince George’s County man was killed when he was hit by a car in North Laurel during the early hours of Monday morning, Maryland State Police said. Timothy Lewis, of Mount Rainier, was pronounced dead at the scene after he was struck at about 1 a.m., state police said. Lewis was...
Representatives from the BWI Roundtable asked state lawmakers Wednesday to file legislation addressing issues related to new flight patterns at BWI Thurgood Marshall airport. Since 2014 the Federal Aviation Administration has faced local and state opposition because of a new air-traffic control...
As Gov. Larry Hogan is defending his stance last week to keep Maryland schools closed before Labor Day, a Howard County delegate is proposing a bill to allow local school boards to have local control over school system calendars. Del. Eric Ebersole, a Democrat who represents District 12 including...
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said Thursday that the county is still studying alternatives to demolishing structures on lower Main Street in Ellicott City to mitigate flooding, and will host a series of public meetings to present ideas and design options after costs have been analyzed. At...
State lawmakers representing Howard County voted Wednesday to advance a bill that could lead to a county fee on plastic bags. The bill, sponsored by Del. Terri Hill and advanced from the delegation, doesn’t set a fee but would permit the County Council and county executive to do so — up to 5 cents...
The fourth and final Howard County teen charged with hate crimes after spray-painting racial epithets and swastikas at Glenelg High School last May is being recommended to serve weekends in jail under a plea deal announced Wednesday. Matthew Lipp, 18, of Woodbine, pleaded not guilty to a hate crime...
At the beginning of each month, members of Oseh Shalom, a synagogue in Laurel, come together over food and prayer to begin the weekly tradition of Shabbat. Shabbat -- Sabbath in Hebrew-- is observed every week from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday. The synagogue has weekly Shabbat services...
A Laurel man faces multiple assault and weapons offenses after police said he broke into a home Wednesday while brandishing a firearm and threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend. Annapolis police said officers were called to a residence on Juliana Circle at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday for a report of a home...
Every morning, she woke up fearing what the day would bring. Jennifer Eller loved her work as an English teacher in Maryland’s schools. But as a transgender woman, she said she was taunted, accused of being a pedophile and a pervert, and threatened. The toll grew too much. Eller reported incident...
When Rich McLaughlin was 5 years old he was hit by a car. “From there, I said I would either become a police officer or a firefighter,” McLaughlin said. He did just that. After nearly 33 years — the past eight as Laurel’s police chief — McLaughlin, 53, is retiring on Jan. 31.“It’s been a great...