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Health and beauty apps enter local market, where some providers had already established on-demand services

Food pantries are cropping up alongside corporate cafes and dining halls on college campuses across the country -- including Howard County Community College. On community college campuses ¿ the home of many untraditional students with diverse needs ¿ pantries serve a unique purpose.

By Fatimah Waseem

Mar 9, 2016

Her family had been torn apart by drugs and mental illness, and Rosalind Holsey had little hope for the future. Then her life took a new direction. She was shut out of cosmetology in high school and found herself among the boys in a barbering class. "This industry literally changed my life," she said.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Feb 8, 2016

Sparrows Point Terminal, the Hanover-based firm that owns the site of the former steel mill, has changed its name to Tradepoint Atlantic, a move the company hopes will enhance its global appeal but that evokes feelings of loss.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Jan 13, 2016

The Arbutus Senior Center is celebrating its five-year anniversary with a week's worth of events planned for members.

By Heather Norris

Aug 14, 2015

Bertha McManus is a lunch lady at Halethorpe Elementary\y

Two seniors in the automotive services technical program at Carroll County Career and Technical Center earned fourth place in the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills state finals during a competition held Saturday at the Community College of Baltimore County's Catonsville campus.

A boarded up stone house located on the grounds of Catonsville High School near the school's football field off Hilltop Road may not look like much. But one Catonsville native, Jim Jones, is taking steps in an effort to preserve the former home, which he says is an important part of Catonsville's past.

In her 15th year organizing the annual Maryland Women's Expo and Conference, Patsy Anderson is looking for ways to reinvent the exhibition, which she hopes to pass on to other female entrepreneurs.

Threatened community rooms

Several comments that suggested shooting unrecognized black men in the Bowleys Quarters neighborhood of Baltimore County sparked outrage on social media Wednesday, spurred by a tweet from Orioles outfielder Adam Jones.

I volunteer to work with special young refugees at a local church in Beechfield, a neighborhood in Catonsville. The group is known as the Baltimore City Community College Refugee Youth Project. The young refugees come from all around the world, but those we assist at the Beechfield church are mainly from Burma. The students range from middle school to high school.

Small businesses in southwest Baltimore County are feeling winter's woes as they begin to feel the impacts of today's winter storm combined with previous weather events this year.

News from schools in Baltimore County

Several Baltimore-area schools systems and governments dismissed early Tuesday, and transportation workers began salting roads around noon, in anticipation of another bout of freezing rain forecast in the evening.

By Colin Campbell

Mar 3, 2015

Baltimore County public schools will close two hours early today in anticipation of an ice storm expected to begin this afternoon as rush hour begins.

An inch or two of snow could fall across Central Maryland, with the best chances south of Baltimore, from Wednesday night through Thursday morning as a storm moves through the Southeast.

By Scott Dance

Feb 26, 2015

Snow began to fall Thursday morning in Baltimore County, just in time for the morning rush hour, prompting public schools to close.

Joseph Crivello, the longtime greeter and host at Donna's restaurants in Baltimore, died Feb. 10 of complications from cancer at a hospital in Naples, Fla.

By Yvonne Wenger

Feb 23, 2015

Boy Scout Troop 1750 of Finksburg celebrated its first Eagle Court of Honor for 2015 on Jan. 10 as Nicholas "Nick" Lee Beavin received his Eagle rank

The Episcopal church is investigating whether Rev. Heather Elizabeth Cook "misrepresented" her struggles with alcohol to the church. There's no need for an investigation: Of course she lied. That is what alcoholics and addicts do.

Educators need to think critically about how we can better help students, including altering the Maryland FAFSA deadline date to ensure those most in need don't systematically fall on the outside of opportunity.

News and events taking place around Baltimore County

A snow storm moving in from the south swept across Baltimore County last night covering areas with four to five inches of snow, prompting public schools to close and government offices to open late.

Naamah Kendrick, wife of George Kendrick, known as the "first lady" of Arbutus, died Monday, Feb. 9 of lung and brain cancer. She was 83.

If the goal of today's college students is to finish with as little debt as possible, Ifechukwudeli Okafor of Overlea has begun with the aim of a marksman.

By Joe Burris

Feb 11, 2015

Dignitaries and developers on Wednesday celebrated the opening of a small road in Owings Mills that they hope will make transportation smoother in the area.

By Pamela Wood

Feb 11, 2015

Division III lacrosse preview for Stevenson Mustangs

By Edward Lee

Feb 11, 2015

Events taking place in Baltimore County

The Maryland Transit Administration said it will launch two bus lines, including one with a stop at the upcoming Amazon Distribution Center on Broening Highway, to transport commuters to new job opportunities in Baltimore City, officials said on Tuesday.

By Joe Burris

Feb 10, 2015

He went to four colleges, worked briefly at a coffee shop and played in the Arena Football League with the Portland Thunder.

By Aaron Wilson

Feb 5, 2015

News and events from schools in Baltimore County

Evelyn M. Stokes, a retired CSX worker who enjoyed cooking, died at her Abingdon home.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jan 29, 2015

News and events around Baltimore County

Essay submitted by 7th grader exemplifies spirit of Dr. King

Dr. Sandra Kurtinitis, president of the Community College of Baltimore County, said she supports President Barack Obama's proposal announced Thursday, Jan. 8 that would make community college tuition free.

Rec Sports submissions for Howard County for the week of Jan. 15

The Owings Mills Metro Centre has seen many changes since it was first taken on as a project by developer Metro Transit LLC and manager/leaser David S. Brown Enterprises in the summer of 2011. Though the Metro Centre may have much to offer, the site is far from finished.

Baltimore County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Dallas Dance fielded dozens of unscripted questions from a room full of high school and middle school students in the western portion of the school system, during the televised event, that also streamed live on the Internet on Thursday.

The more community colleges compare themselves to four-year institutions when it comes to pricing, the more people at the low end of the economic ladder will be priced out of a higher education.

Alvin J.T. Zumbrun, a noted criminologist whose career teaching in various police academies spanned more than four decades, died Tuesday at his Catonsville home of cancer. He was 88.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Dec 12, 2014

Sarah Catharine "Sally" Tarr, a retired Baltimore County teacher and musician who accompanied performers in numerous community theater musicals, died Dec. 5 at Carroll County General Hospital

By Jacques Kelly

Dec 11, 2014

Marian E. Spencer, a retired educator who earlier had a varied career as a policewoman and truant officer, died Nov. 27 at FutureCare Old Court of multiple myeloma. She was 82.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Dec 6, 2014

Purnell B. Oden Sr., a retired mortician who taught mortuary science at the Community College of Baltimore County, died of kidney failure Nov. 30 at the Loch Raven Veterans Hospice. He was 84 and lived in Pumphrey.

By Jacques Kelly

Dec 4, 2014