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Church of the Good Shepherd has begun work on turning old funeral home — and once palatial home — into new mission center and worship space

A Harford County woman is dead after an fatal accident on I-95 Saturday morning.

Members of the Maryland National Guard and their families came to the Wilkens Avenue parking lot of the Hubbard Funeral Home to pick up one of the Christmas trees given away in the Trees for Troops program, on a warm Dec. 8.

Families of Maryland National Guard members to received 30 trees for holidays

Founder's great-grandson offers alternatives to traditional services

Local firefighter and former Sykesville Volunteer Fire Department Chief William ¿Mr. Bill¿ Frank Luebberman, 66, of Sykesville, died, Nov. 18, at the Carroll Dove House in Westminster.

The three young people killed in a car crash in Street on Saturday may have been returning from Havre de Grace, said the mother of one of them.

Marylanders scrambled Saturday to prepare for an unusual encounter: heavy winds and rains as Sandy sustains possible hurricane-level forces as it barrels up the Atlantic coastline.

Melvin B. Lowe Jr., a floral and hat designer who also worked as a funeral home attendant, died Sept. 27 of renal failure at his Washington home. He was 47.

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.

The American Flag was at half staff flying over the McComas Funeral Home in Abingdon Tuesday afternoon, as his fellow deputies from the Harford County Sheriff's office and other area law enforcement agencies filed in to pay their final respects to Sgt. Ian Loughran.

Harford sheriff's office mourns the loss of second deputy in a week

The Union Bridge Fire Company, celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, is considered to be the second oldest. ....

Family, friends and colleagues began paying their respects Monday afternoon to Harford County Sheriff's Office Cpl. Charles Licato, who died in a car accident Thursday morning on his way home from work

An on-duty Harford County Sheriff's deputy was killed in a single vehicle accident near Darlington early Thursday morning, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office said.

Baltimore County couple helps families in need by donating school supplies in backpacks.

A Baltimore funeral home is among those featured in an ESPN campaign from Academy-Award-winning director Errol Morris that launched today.

Baltimore County Police have charged a 20-year-old city man with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a city funeral home director. Mark Brown Jr., of the 200 block of North Washington Street, in a neighborhood near Johns Hopkins Hospital known as C.A.R.E., is charged in the stabbing death of Phillip Weatherford on July 23 in White Marsh.

Albert Richard Baines Jr., 92, tool designer

Thanks largely to contributions from the city, chubby 'Our Gang' star Norman Chaney will get the gravestone he's lacked for nearly 76 years.

Loyola attackman Adam Pomper died Monday evening near his parents¿ home in Huntington, N.Y., according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

A 31-year-old man was airlifted to a regional trauma center with serious injuries after he fell from a tree near Bel Air Saturday morning.

Eline Funeral Home in Reisterstown, which opened in 1863, is a fifth-generation business and one of the oldest continuously family-run companies in the industry.

In Maryland and across the country, the baby boomer generation and other older Americans are drowning in debt, many of them because they have no choice, according to credit counselors, elder law attorneys and economists.

Baltimore County police report that Ronald Lee Gurnsey Jr. was driving down Edmondson Avenue Friday morning when the pick up truck hit a utility pole and retaining wall in front of Sterling-Ashton-Webb-Witzke Funeral Home. The 28-year-old driver is at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center with serious injuries.

In Maryland and across the country, the baby boomer generation and other older Americans are drowning in debt, many of them because they have no choice, according to credit counselors, elder law attorneys and economists.

One of two people injured in Tuesday morning's accident in Fallston that killed two others was released from the hospital Tuesday evening, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office.

Joseph A. DiPaola Jr., an award-winning Baltimore Sun photographer whose 1962 picture of the nose-to-nose Preakness finish resulted in the suspension of a jockey who claimed foul, died Friday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was 91.

Mortician had been active in his industry for nearly 70 years and founded his business at Dolphin and McCulloh

A 27-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department who retired in 2001 and went on to work in corporate security at the Johns Hopkins medical institutions died Sunday after falling in his home on Sunday.

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Retired mortician who enjoyed world travel

Harry Judd Rose, a retired Maryland Transit Administration bus driver and World War II veteran, died Sunday at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson from complications of a fall. He was 94. He passed away four days after his daughter, Diane Beverly Rose, 62, who also was in Gilchrist.

Just when it would seem Donaldson, who already operates funeral homes in Laurel and Odenton, had overcome the major obstacles that stood in the way of him getting the zoning approval he needs to build the funeral home, a new group of Clarksville residents are organizing opposition against his proposal before the Board of Appeals.

A Board of Appeals hearing on plans for a funeral home in Clarksville that was scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 5 had to be postponed because the hearing was not properly advertised by the county.

Elizabeth L. "Bobbi" Phillips, who co-founded and operated a West Baltimore funeral home, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 28 at her home. She was 93.

R. George Hopkins, a retired Anne Arundel County funeral director who loved Christmas and filled his yard with handcrafted decorations, died Dec. 6 of cancer at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. He was 61.

Miami, sex toys and funeral homes. Really.

Visitors unable to score on football field in Annapolis.

Crematorium found to be cause of smoke thought to sign of building on fire.

William Volenick's military experience helped him forge a long career in government intelligence

The father of an infant child found fatally stabbed in Southwest Baltimore Thursday has been charged with first-degree murder, police said. Hari Close, 25, was charged Thursday morning and is being held without bond.

Rabbi Jacob A. Max, 87, founder of Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah Hebrew Congregation in Baltimore County died Tuesday morning, said the synagogue's current head, Rabbi Yerachmiel Shapiro.

Ugliness of Big Labor in funeral home vandalism pales compared to behavior of Big Business and its assault on government

Liberals like to laud Big Labor's contributions to building America, but they ignore its dark side as an institution that has too often embraced thuggish tactics in pursuit of unaffordable wages and benefits.

An Anne Arundel County appeals board may be the only way disgruntled neighbors can prevent a crematorium in their Millersville neighborhood.

The Anne Arundel County Council is considering a change to a proposed bill that would allow the Millersville crematorium that spurred the legislation to move forward.