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Tyler Muse won for the fourth time, and Adria Pirozzi, for the first in leading a field of 1,330 runners in the 19th annual Turkey Trot 5K in Bel Air last Thursday. - Robert Reier and Susan Burdette were chosen Monday by their colleagues on the Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners to serve as chair and vice chair for the next year.
- Downtown Baltimore's historic Keyser office building is expected to open as a new hotel this summer, more than five years after the developer that started the conversion entered bankruptcy.
- The Ninth District Health Committee's medical supplies loan closet based at Loch Raven Elementary is closing. Volunteers who staff the closet, which lends such items as walkers, wheelchairs, canes, etc., are dwindling. The local health committee is the last of 15 such committees around the area. Bette Decker, a former public health nurse, chairs the local commitee.
- Hell in a Cell main event between Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins was interrupted by Bray Wyatt, drawing the ire of many pro wrestling fans.
- Timothy O. Pierce Sr., a swimming coach and retired English teacher at Loyola Blakefield, where he headed its middle school, died of cancer Oct. 16 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The resident of the Hampton section of Towson was 71.
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- An Abingdon man was arrested and charged Tuesday in connection with a robbery of a 16-year-old boy in mid-August.
- Howard County Times, Columbia Flier letters to the editor
- Vivienne Shub, who played eccentric personalities as she delighted Baltimore theater audiences during a long and lauded run here, died of heart failure Thursday morning at the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson.
- Verna Mae Peacock Cann, a retired social worker and church musician, died of congestive heart failure Aug. 27 at Sinai Hospital. The Parkton resident was 81.
- Charnie L. "Les" Kinion Jr., founder of the Baltimore Road Runners Club and the Maryland Marathon, died July 23 of a heart attack while visiting friends in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was 78.
- Six Marines from the 4th Combat Engineer Battalion in Parkville teamed up with Central Maryland Rehab and Central Maryland Fitness at the YMCA Hill Family Center in Westminster to host the fourth annual Marine Corps Combat Fitness Test, where civilians are encouraged to see if they are physically fit enough to pass.
- Brianna Lynn Moscarell, 6, of Hanover, Pa., has been chosen as a state finalist in the National American Miss Pennsylvania Pageant, to be held Aug. 8-9 at the Hilton Harrisburg
- A 3-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet Friday after a gunman opened fire on a porch in North Baltimore's Waverly neighborhood.
- Aubrey Karoglan and Carlyn Wiedecker will be two of about 11,000 first- and second-year teachers participating in this year's crop through Teach for America.
- The Harford County Sheriff's Office and Maryland State Police report:
- New federal requirements will ensure pool mishaps like the one at Camp Letts won't happen again
- Thirty-five people were hospitalized Wednesday after being sickened by chemicals at a camp swimming pool in Edgewater, Anne Arundel County fire officials said.
- Candidate with famous last name doesn't deserve to be attorney general
- FIFA needs to follow the NBA's example and crack down on flopping.
- The weekend of the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim was better than any holiday for Robert Matysek. The South Carolina man loved to spend time swimming with his family.
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- A historic YMCA in Mount Vernon, once home to confessed Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers and a hotel run by the former Baltimore International Culinary college, is to become a 197-room Hotel Indigo, one of the new owners said.
- For students, the long-awaited summer break from school means relaxation and leisure.
- Two men accused of beating a fan at an Orioles game last year danced to 'YMCA' even as their victim lay bleeding with a fractured skull on a concrete floor below them, according to a $5 million lawsuit filed last week.
- The excitement over Angel Park, Perry Hall's latest planned park, is spreading throughout our community! If you haven't heard of Angel Park yet, it's a new all-inclusive playground and amphitheater in Perry Hall, located next to the library on Honeygo Blvd.
