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William E. "Bill" Edrington, a retired hospital maintenance worker and plasterer, died Tuesday of complications of dementia at Country Companions, a Taneytown assisted-living facility. He was 83.

Several Ellicott City businesses — Subway, I Love Theatre and Taylor's Antique Mall — shut their doors in December. While turnover among Main Street businesses is to be expected, said the president of the Ellicott City Historic District Partnership — people are nervous about changes.

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Late Dr. Michael Edelstein, of Cockeysville, on Sheppard Pratt staff for 30 years, donated his cornea, and will be honored at Rose Bowl Parade on Donate Life Float Jan. 1.

But people with anosognosia, who tend to stop their treatment as soon as they leave the hospital, have been failed by deinstitutionalization. This is a particular problem in Maryland — one of five states where the law does not allow doctors to keep a patient under court-ordered commitment after release into the community.

Dr. Ghislaine D. Godenne, a psychiatrist and baroness who was the founder of the Johns Hopkins University Counseling and Psychiatric Services, died Saturday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Roland Park Place. She was 89.

Sheppard Pratt on Wednesday unveiled its newly restored historic gatehouse, which since the 1860s served as the primary entranceway to the psychiatric hospital and which will now function after a 15-month, $1.5 million renovation, as a guesthouse for visiting staff and lecturers.

From its humble origins on the shores of the Patapsco River in industrial and rail-clogged South Baltimore, Charles Street transforms itself during its 10.9-mile journey through the heart of the city as it progresses north through the fashionable and wealthy tenderloin neighborhoods of Guilford, Homeland, Woodbrook, Murray Hill and into Baltimore County.

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A man was shot to death by police after barricading himself inside a house in Havre de Grace Saturday afternoon, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said.

An ice cream truck and good food from the bride's father's restaurant were some of the original twists at this Baltimore Museum of Industry reception. Wedded: Jade Eaves and Christopher McArdle

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A Towson University student was raped early Friday outside of an apartment building near campus, police say.

The father a 19-year-old fatally shot on Saturday by a Harford County Sheriff's Office deputy said Monday that based what police and others have described about his son's actions in the hour or so before the shooting, "there's no doubt" he had taken some substance that altered his personality.

A Harford County sheriff's deputy shot a man late Saturday night on the parking lot of the BP gas station in Rock Spring, police said.

Jason Armstrong Baker, a 1993 graduate of Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, has created a game that uses music to teach students geography. The program is called Sounds Around the World.

Anita L. Madsen, a former News American reporter who later became director of public affairs for the Sheppard Pratt Health System, died Saturday from lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 69.

Fire extensively damaged a home in Joppatowne early Monday afternoon.

One woman was stabbed and another threatened with a knife by Lashaunta Garfield in Westowne Wednesday

This weekend, June 8 and 9, Little Falls Friends Meeting in Fallston will celebrate the 275th anniversary of its founding.

Dr. Paul S. Lietman, a retired Johns Hopkins professor of medicine, pharmacology, molecular sciences and pediatrics, died of congestive heart failure.

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A 25-year-old man arrested for trespassing in North County High School this month — and who was found to have a number of legal, high-powered weapons in his home — has been ordered held without bond.

Michelle LeM. Flesher, a retired Towson artist who also was an art restorer and therapist, died Feb. 1 4 of heart failure at St. Elizabeth Hall Apartments at Stella Maris in Timonium. She was 87.

A Baltimore lawmaker plans to introduce legislation that would require all Maryland hospitals to participate in an online psychiatric bed registry meant to expedite care for the mentally ill.

Love, loss define tales of Poe, Mencken, Fitzgeralds, Patterson, Wallis Simpson.

A man charged with trespassing at North County High School in Glen Burnie on Monday is currently being treated at a local psychiatric hospital ...

Asking price is $450,000 for 3,600 square foot where novelist lived when "Tender is the Night" was published

The patch of green on Montgomery Road across from the Long Gate Shopping Center in Ellicott City stands out amid all the asphalt, stores and homes. Behind a few small wood frame houses and garages, these nearly eight acres could almost be a suburban park, with a few trees and a small playground next to the Bethel Baptist Church.

Margaret W. Brooks, a homemaker, volunteer and avid gardener, died Dec. 28 of a cerebral hemorrhage at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. She was 93.

In his first year in command of the Towson precinct, Capt. Jonathan Trentzsch has made building relationships in the community a top priority.

Hopkins psychiatrist says we are too slow to intervene when loved ones show signs of mental illness

There's nothing wrong with junk food — yes, even Twinkies — when consumed in moderation