Brooklyn Park News

They work late nights driving beat-up cars that smell of cheese and sausage. And every time pizza delivery drivers head out, they fear being robbed by some crook looking for an easy mark with ready cash.

The kitchen at Brooklyn Heights United Methodist Church was bustling one Tuesday earlier this month, a sign to the volunteers with its Body and Soul program that the free hot meals and bags of groceries they provide to the needy are needed more than ever.

A Brooklyn Park man was sentenced to five years in prison this week for his role in a burglary ring that targeted at least eight north county homes last summer.

The Chesapeake Arts Center, 194 Hammonds Lane, has several events this month to usher in the holiday season.

Gail Collins of Glen Burnie fills out a job registration form Thursday during a job fair at Arundel Mills mall in Hanover.

Karen Dixon, a behavioral interventionist at Lindale Middle School, sat at table in the school's newly revamped teachers' lounge earlier, enjoying the decidedly inviting atmosphere.

Some Brooklyn Park residents looking to rehabilitate their properties could receive financial help from a county quasi-public agency.

Anne Arundel County police arrested four teenagers Thursday and charged them in connection with an armed robbery of a man Wednesday night in the Pumphrey area.

A Baltimore man received a life sentence for the rape and robbery of a woman at a Brooklyn Park Laundromat.

The Chesapeake Arts Center's Family Concert Series continues on Nov. 21 with "Kinderman," a highly interactive family program that engages the audience with original chants, story songs and call-and-response. Three-time Emmy Award winner John "Kinderman" Taylor brings his inspiring performance style to The Chesapeake Arts Center's Family Concert ...

As drum major of North County High's marching band, Nadia Natafgi is used to performing before large crowds.

Charles Hartman thought he needed surgery to remove his appendix in August. But after he was admitted to St.

Some police officers still need to learn they live in a country of human rights and expected decency.

Mary Humphry had been attending programs and classes at the Brooklyn Park Senior Center last year, but stopped because she was depressed about the death of one of her children.

A Halethorpe man pleaded guilty Tuesday in two home invasion-style robberies, including one that police said caused the homeowner to have a heart attack soon after.

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.