Brooklyn Park News

The folks down at the Annapolis & Anne Arundel County Conference and Visitors Bureau have come up with a contest to identify people who make this county a beautiful destination.

The scene involved a commercial motor vehicle and a traffic control flag man. Maryland State Police in Frederick are continuing to investigate a fatality that happened Friday when a flagman directing traffic on Buckeystown Pike was run over by a co-workers truck, killing him.

A county jury on Thursday convicted a north county man of two counts of first-degree murder for his part in an ambush shooting outside a nightclub that left two Annapolis men dead last year.

About 200 Cub and Boy Scouts from around the county will descend on Brooklyn Park Nov.

An 18-year-old Annapolis man was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for his part in a near-fatal shooting last November that police say was revenge for a double homicide earlier that morning outside an Odenton bar.

Brooklyn Park's portion of Ritchie Highway could have a unified appearance and more of a pedestrian-friendly feel if residents have their way.

Share + Oct 29, 2009 9:59 pm US/Eastern Reporting Adam May We're only weeks into flu season and already hundreds of Maryland children have been hospitalized, and three have died.

Based on the covenants between the Arundel Mills and property owners in the Villages of Dorchester, a casino cannot be built at mall.

Alice Kriewald wants her experience with three scam artists to serve as a warning to her fellow seniors not to give money or personal information over the phone or online.

Is your child suddenly speaking in an odd, slang-heavy language? Is he or she becoming more secretive, turning up with unexplained amounts of money and wearing one particular color all the time? It could be more than a case of typical teenage rebellion.

It didn't take long for north county's needy residents to find the Anne Arundel Community Action Partnership.

As workers at Genesis HealthCare Center left for the weekend Friday, six women sat at a table in the dining hall, wished them well and continued stringing beads and teasing each other.

A father and his son escaped injury Tuesday night during a fire caused by a lighted candle in the living room that extensively damaged their Pasadena home, said a county Fire Department spokesman.

We have lived at our current address in Brooklyn Park since June 2008 and since that time we have had a $500 windshield broken out with a cinder block shattering glass all over our children's car seats while the vehicle was parked off the street in our driveway.

Stephen P. McAllister wants to build one of "the greenest projects to date in this country" on a sprawling plot of land straddling the line between South Baltimore and Brooklyn Park.

Walter Brooks Jr. was a healthy 18-year-old college student when he came down with a cough and a slight fever nearly two weeks ago.

We are not surprised - but still thankful - that the legislature will examine new laws to tighten control of gang activity in local schools.

Because of the success of last year's gang awareness night, the organizers - the county's Office of Constituent Services and the Greater Brooklyn Park Council - have planned a follow-up from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct.

North County High School will host its inaugural homecoming 5K race on Oct. 24 at Baybrook Park in Curtis Bay.

Paul Joseph Kasuda couldn't make it in person to Glen Burnie High School's second annual Alumni Wall of Honor induction ceremony Thursday night, but thanks to his father, John Kasuda, he was there in spirit.