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White House crasher, 'Housewife' says yes - The changing of the guard recently took place at the annual installation dinner of the Optimist Club of Timonium.
- More than 7,000 people turned out for the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Baltimore. Some signed up for a new prevention study as a way of making a long-term commitment to the cause.
- With the economic recovery still sluggish, a donor pool laboring under a long-term pay freeze and uncertainty about looming budget cuts, organizers of the Combined Federal Campaign in the National Capital Area have reduced their fundraising goal for the 2012 giving season.
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- Lawrence Hughes, a decorated Baltimore City Fire Department lieutenant, died of cancer Oct. 8 at the Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was 64 and lived in Bel Air.
- Socialite to appear at Paul Reed Smith Guitars fundraiser for Kimmel Cancer Center.
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- The Wellness House of Annapolis, which offers services and programs to assist those living with cancer and their relatives, including children, has walk-in hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays.
- Former state Sen. Clarence M. Mitchell III died Thursday at age 72, according to published reports.
- After receiving much opposition last week from local liquor store owners, the Harford County Liquor Control Board Wednesday voted 3-2 Wednesday to grant a license to PAS Corporation to sell beer, wine and liquor at the former Decker's Wine and Spirits on Baltimore Pike in Bel Air.
- No. 10 Archbishop Spalding, Seton Keough to meet Thursday in sixth-annual event
- Stan Ber's Bits & Pieces column
- A group of former Virginia men's lacrosse players is heading to Charlottesville this weekend to play the current team and hold a free clinic to raise money for the daughters of Chris Sanderson, former goaltender for the Cavaliers and the now-Chesapeake Bayhawks
- Howard County government has announced its volunteers of the year
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- Special events at Glenelg High School include a fall flea market
- "Patches" Jarrett Lickle, a popular children's television personality of the 1950s who later performed at Cockeysville area restaurants, died of cancer late Friday at Gilchrist Hospice care in Towson.
- Lance Armstrong was the first cancer survivor across the finish line in the Revolution 3 Half-Full Triathlon at Centennial Park in Howard County on Sunday, finishing the 70-mile race at the head of the survivors division in about 4 hours, 16 minutes.
- The churches are placing a particular emphasis on African-American voters because many are becoming open to same-sex marriage after President Barack Obama and the NAACP's board of directors announced their support for it.
- Lance Armstrong tried to shed his serious public persona Saturday in Ellicott City by poking fun at the elephant in a room about half-filled with triathletes: his lifetime competitive sporting ban.
- Voters to cast ballots on immigrant tuition bill in November
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- The Wellness House of Annapolis, which offers services and programs to assist those living with cancer and their relatives, including children, has walk-in hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays.
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- Local Harford County residents committed to philanthropy making the county strong
- Federal agents in Baltimore helped lead an operation that this week seized nearly 700 U.S.-based websites linked to the sale of counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs as part of an international effort to upend the global online drug trade.
- The Mall in Columbia is inviting customers to "Think Pink" this weekend and support the American Cancer Sociery's mission against breast cancer.
- As the American Cancer Society plans to recruit 500 people who live or work in the Harford County area, it has scheduled enrollment for Nov. 7-11.
- A final decision on whether to give The Community Fire Company of Perryville a total of $105,000 for its career services program has been delayed at least one more month.
- Harford County's top lawman says he's been wrestling with leading an agency of 290 sworn officers through tragedy unlike any the Sheriff's Office has endured in the last two centuries: the back-to-back deaths of active duty officers.
- Howard County Executive Ken Ulman says the Grand Prix is a great fund-raising opportunity for local charities.
- Two weeks after announcing Lance Armstrong will participate in the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults half-full triathlon on Sunday, Oct. 7, the fund has announced that the Livestrong founder will also participate on a Cancer Survivor Panel at Centennial High School the Saturday before the race.
- Cyclist to discuss why he decided to compete in the Half Full Triathlon for the Ulman Cancer Fund.
- Gators wear pink sox, shoelaces for Perry Hall Rec football game
- A raft of new state laws take effect Monday. Children under 8-years-old will be required to sit in a booster seat or child seat until they reach a certain height, and morticians will have to follow stricter rules under legislation enacted by the General Assembly earlier this year.
