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- The Howard County Pride Festival is Saturday and is co-sponsored by Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and Howard County Executive Calvin Ball.
- A man charged with the homicide and assault of a couple in their Columbia home on May 5 is being held without bond, the State's Attorney's Office said.
- Howard County police have charged a man with the homicide and assault of a couple in their Columbia home on May 5.
- Columbia resident Rick Colom accumulated an extensive collection of recordings from the pre-World War II era, which he shared on radio programs and the
- Moira Akers, 38, of Columbia, was arrested Wednesday night and charged with the murder in the death of her newborn son, who was found dead inside a zipped plastic bag at her home in November, Howard County police announced Thursday morning.
- Clutching a framed photograph of herself from her days in the NICU, Katelyn Thomas, her mother and her former NICU nurse, Sue White, attended a reunion last week for NICU babies from Howard County General Hospital.
- Howard County police say two Columbia men are being charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and related charges in the fatal shooting of a 27-year-old man at Harper's Choice Village Center.
- Howard County police are offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information about a fatal shooting on Thursday in Columbia.
- Howard County police say 27-year-old Ronald Carolina, Jr., was killed in a shooting in Columbia on Thursday afternoon.
- Howard County is partnering with Howard County General Hospital on a program to bring more primary care physicians to the community.
- Deputy State Fire Marshals detonated explosives Sunday that were believed to have belonged to Alan Bruce Chmurny, who died about 20 years ago after he ingested cyanide in open court.
- A pedestrian is in critical condition Saturday after being hit in a Cosco parking lot in Elkridge.
- A woman was found dead near a wooded area in Columbia on Sunday afternoon, Howard County police said Monday.
- J. Spencer Hammond, former longtime minister of music, organist and choir director at Douglas Memorial Community Church who also taught music in the city public schools for more than three decades, died ThursdayJAN24 at Howard County General Hospital from complications from a fall.
- Howard County fire officials say crews rescued a man from a fire at a Columbia townhouse just before dawn Friday.
- Steven Snelgrove, 61, took the helm of Howard County General Hospital in Columbia in 2014.
- Donna L. Cadenhead-Tynes, a former Bon Secours Hospital telemetry nurse and avid Ravens fan, died Dec. 8 from complications of metastatic endometrial cancer at Howard County General Hospital.
- A Laurel woman planned to deliver her baby at Howard County General Hospital, but she made it only as far as the driveway outside the front door.
- A Howard school bus transporting the Glenelg High School jazz band from one high school to another, was struck by a car on Monday night.
- Graham Paul Banks, an officer in a decorative plastering company that restored the Hippodrome Theatre and numerous other landmarks, died of cardiogenic shock Nov. 15 at Howard County General Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 66.
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- The top A&E events in the Baltimore area for the week of Nov. 18-24, 2018
- Maryland hospitals were safer for patients this fall than they were six months ago, according to the latest assessment from the Leapfrog Group.
- Joan Marie Howard, a retired senior secretary at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, died of heart failure Tuesday at Howard County General Hospital. The Jessup resident was 81.
- Howard County police have determined the identity of the skeletal remains that were found in the woods near Howard County General Hospital in Columbia in early June.
- Howard County Police have determined that Leroy Peyton Truehart, had a medical emergency when his SUV ran off the road over the weekend and he died a few days later.
- A funeral service will be held Saturday for Howard County firefighter Nathan Flynn, 34, who was killed in a Clarksville fire on Monday. Flynn, a Havre de Grace resident, was killed when he fell through the Woodscape Drive house's first floor and into the basement.
- The firefighter was identified as 34-year-old Nathan Flynn, a husband, father and 13-year veteran of the department. He is the first career firefighter killed in the line of duty in Howard County history, officials said.
- Marianne J. Schoeffield, a homemaker and former secretary, died June 30 from a cardiac arrest at Howard County General Hospital. The Ellicott City resident was 82.
- There have been 24 fatal overdoses and 101 non-fatal overdoses through the month of June in Howard County.
- One year into Howard County’s pilot bikeshare program, officials say the membership-based endeavor is off to a strong start, but they’d like to see ridership expand.
- Lightning set a house in Clarksville on fire Tuesday evening, according to the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services.
- Walk for Wellness meets every Saturday at 9 a,m. for an hour of exercise and walking.
- Human skeletal remains were found in Howard County in early June but the identification of the body will not be determined for eight weeks.
- Ronald R. Peterson helped create the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System we know today. The highlights of his history there would put him on a short list of the most influential figures in the history of the hospital and health system.
- Four days after devastating floods in Ellicott City pushed Howard County into the national spotlight, officials got back to a sense of normalcy for a few hours on Thursday morning when they passed the county’s fiscal 2019 budget, a record-setting $1.6 billion operating budget.
- To combat the rising number of STI cases, Director of Child Health Jackie Douge said the department is undertaking new outreach efforts to talk with teens about safe sex.
- To care for those residents and their increasingly complex health needs, the hospital is looking to join forces in a new way with the county government. For the first time this year the hospital sought county funding for its operational budget.
- Robert A. Sherrock, a retired corporate attorney who was an avid football fan, died May 2 from cancer at Howard County General Hospital. The Columbia resident was 74.
- A preview of the Columbia Pro Cantare's "Over There: Music of World War I" concert on May 5 at 8 p.m., in Columbia.
- Former Maryland coach Dick Edell died Wednesday morning, of pneumonia, at Howard County General Hospital. The Glenelg resident was 74.
- A new hospital safety report by Leapfrog found that the overall performance of Maryland hospitals has improved.
- County Executive Allan Kittleman unveiled a $1.6 billion fiscal 2019 operating budget that is 1.9 percent larger than this year’s and the biggest ever for one of Maryland’s richest counties.
- Howard County helped lead the pack for the fifth straight year as the second healthiest county in the state behind Montgomery, according an annual study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
- Howard County is home to a plethora of dining experiences, from classic American to ethnic delicacies.
- Mark your calendar for some of Howard County's most anticipated events of the year.
- A Columbia man is facing four criminal charges and more than 20 traffic charges after fleeing the scene of a crash in Catonsville, running from police into a wooded area and prompting a helicopter and K9 search.
- A pedestrian was hit by a car and killed in Columbia on Wednesday evening, according to Howard County police.
- A fatal car crash in Columbia left one person dead Tuesday morning, according to Howard County Police. A second person was transported to Shock Trauma and is stable, police said.
- Thomas Saunders was the former head of the city's rumor control office and led tours of African-American sites throughout the city.