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The fourth blood drive to honor Bel Air resident Carolyn Lynch's battle against leukemia will be Tuesday, Oct. 11, from 1 to 7 p.m.

By David Anderson

Oct 10, 2016

When Haiti's first lady asked Caprece Jackson-Garrett to gather backpacks for the country's children in need, Jackson-Garrett knew she couldn't say no.

Compass Rose Theater has opened its sixth season with a production that ranks near the top of its past presentations. Produced by Compass Rose founding artistic director Lucinda Merry-Browne, the engrossing one-woman show, "Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Secret Journey," is a drama of deep emotion with historical context.

The football season has begun and Glenelg High School's award-winning Marching Unit is proud to perform at each home game. The band, under the direction of Chris Winters, color guard under the direction of Jennifer Blizzard-Sisk and dance team under the direction of Terry Newsome will present an excellent show during half time.

To thank our local firefighters, the residents and associates of Brightview Perry Hall, the senior-living community, held a special ceremony in honor

Maryland's governor has undergone monthly treatments in the year since his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma went into remission.

By Erin Cox

Sep 15, 2016

St. Andrew's Church in Glenwood is bringing back its monthly feast after a hiatus over the summer. On Thursday, Sept. 22. from 6 to 8 p.m., you can dine in or carry out at the church located on route 97 between Union Chapel Road and the post office in Glenwood.

Firefighter Bruce Bouch recalled the arduous walk he and 16 others took to reach Ground Zero after the Sept.11, 2001, attacks.

Harvadene Marion Gustus, a retired social worker for the Department of Housing and Community Development, died of stroke complications Sept.3 at the Green House at Stadium Place. The Federal Hill resident was 72.

By Jacques Kelly

Sep 9, 2016

The gathering to celebrate the 40 years since the Glenelg High School Class of 1976 graduated was a great success, thanks to lots of hard work by the

The 71st annual Howard County Fair has gone into the history books. Did you spend some time at the Howard County Fair? It's always a highlight of the summer season. It takes the efforts of many volunteers to have a successful Howard County Fair each year.

It's been over two weeks since our historic town was devastated. My heart still aches. The pain is still raw. The photos and videos are forever etched in my mind.

Fire investigators say an Aberdeen area house is a total loss after two juvenile neighbors playing with a lighter set two trash bags on fire on a rear porch Tuesday evening, while the occupants, who had just moved in, were not home.

By David Anderson

Jul 20, 2016

About a half century after Dr. Miriam Cohen became the state's first female cardiologist, patients are still far more likely to have their hearts treated by a man

By Meredith Cohn

Jul 10, 2016

A blood drive beginning at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Carroll Community College is just the first of seven blood drives to be held in the area of the next two weeks to help the Red Cross build back up its reserves, according to Maureen Wellman, communications director for American Red Cross Biomedical Services. A slow down in donations has meant hospitals have been drawing more blood than is being donated to the Red Cross, she said, which as seen about 39,000 fewer donations than are needed over the

We're asking Carroll County residents to help answer the American Red Cross's emergency call by attending a local blood drive.

As people get wrapped up in vacation and other summer plans, they are not donating blood resulting in a shortage at hospitals.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Jul 5, 2016

A fire that started Saturday amid a pile of construction debris behind Lakeview Towers forced nearly 70 people to evacuate the troubled public housing building in West Baltimore.

The Maryland-based group Black Kids Swim condemned a controversial Red Cross poster Friday.

Members of Congress will call on federal regulators today to lift a requirement that gay and bisexual men be celibate for a year before donating blood.

A Red Cross poster is being decried as racist nationwide, but it's not on display at Baltimore city or county pools, officials say.

Clinton Kilty Macsherry Jr., 91, the patriarch of his family and a retired safety engineer for a local insurance firm, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease complications June 22 at his Tuxedo Park home.

By Jacques Kelly

Jun 28, 2016

Hamas is not the villain in Gaza

The Office of the State Fire Marshal has deemed a fire that left a Westminster family homeless Monday evening an accident.

Katharine McL. "Kitty" Hoffman, a former Garrison Forest School riding instructor who had served with the Red Cross in the Pacific during World War II, died June 14 from a heart attack at her Brightwood retirement community home in Lutherville. She was 96.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jun 21, 2016

Multiple Carroll County fire companies were called to Westminster to handle a blaze that left four people displaced.

Francis Scott Key High School won the Carroll County High School of the Year award from the American Red Cross.

Mary S. Feik, a retired aviation engineer who restored historic aircraft and taught aviation restoration at the National Air and space Museum's Paul E. Garber Restoration facility in Suitland, died June 10 of complications from cancer at her Annapolis home. She was 92.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jun 16, 2016

More than a dozen row homes were damaged in a three-alarm fire early Tuesday in East Baltimore.

The following programs will be offered through Carroll County Public Library. Registration is required only where noted. For more information, call

An overloaded extension cord appears to have caused a fire that displaced 20 individuals from an apartment building in the 100 block of E. Main St. in Westminster, according to the state fire marshal.

One person was injured Sunday morning in a house fire in the 6300 block of Davis Road in Mount Airy.

Joseph Getty, a Manchester resident, has been tapped by his current boss to fill a vacancy on the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.

Seven Carroll County fire companies were called to the 500 block of Marshall Drive in Westminster for a house fire Tuesday afternoon.

Volunteer briefs for May

Kenneth L. Horsman, 58, who performed as Ken-Zo the Clown in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and later established a South Baltimore magic shop and entertainment center, died of melanoma cancer May 12 at his Federal Hill home.

By Jacques Kelly

May 17, 2016

The following programs will be offered through Carroll County Public Library. Registration is required only where noted. For more information, call

Fire destroyed an attached garage and damaged a house in the Jarrettsville area early Tuesday afternoon.

By Matt Button

Apr 26, 2016

Williams honored for hospital volunteering

Fire crews from Bel Air and surrounding areas were called to a fire with rescue in a three-story garden apartment building in the Brentwood Park community north of town early Tuesday evening.

By David Anderson

Apr 20, 2016

Owings Mills High School senior Kenisha Brannon was honored as Baltimore County's 2016 Young Woman of the Year by the Baltimore County Commission for Women.

As children begin to move from baby food to table food, the possibility of choking is something parents need to be aware of.

Twenty-nine people were displaced after a two-alarm fire broke out at an apartment complex in Lansdowne Thursday, a Baltimore County fire department spokesman said.

By Jessica Anderson

Apr 7, 2016

Fort Meade housed an internment camp at the start of World War II for primarily German-American and Italian-American citizens and foreign nationals. In 1943, however, the military found itself in a bind with thousands of captured POWs and nowhere to house them in Europe or Africa. The solution was to convert many of the internment camps on U.S. military bases, including Fort Meade, and former Civilian Conservation Corps camps for POWs.

A house on West George Street is uninhabitable after a fire Thursday afternoon.

On Tuesday, April 5, Westminster United Methodist Church will hold its Community Blood Drive from 1 to 6:30 p.m.

New Castle County Police say four people were found dead in two apartments in Wilmington

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Like many other young people her age, Kenisha Brannon, a 17-year-old senior at Owings Mills High School, has big dreams.

More than 55 firefighters from Howard, Carroll and Montgomery counties responded to a house fire in Glenelg Friday night, according to the Howard County department.

By Jessica Anderson

Mar 12, 2016