Columbia News

“She knows what happened. She's in the healing process. She believes it was premeditation.”

A judge today denied bail for the 83-year-old Howard County man accused of attacking his wife with a hammer and called the incident 'a very scary situation.'

Calvin Ralph Payne, who appeared for today's bond review hearing via a video feed from the county detention center, is charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder and first- and second-degree assault in connection with the attack Monday evening that left 81-year-old Alma Payne lying in a pool of blood in the couple's Columbia home. Read more

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A former Howard County teacher convicted of sending explicit pictures to a former female student learned his fate at a sentencing hearing Friday.

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“We have a database of 1,200 people who didn't know about it before who know about it now”

IF YOU GO * WHAT: Ninth annual Wyatt's 3-Mile Walk for SMA Type 1 * WHEN: Registration/check-in at 8:45 a.m. Saturday; walk starts at 10. via Niagara Gazette

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A Columbia man charged in two Howard County homicides has pleaded not criminally responsible and will undergo a psychiatric evaluation. via wjz.com

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A 62-year-old woman was injured this afternoon when she was shot by police who responded to the senior citizen apartment complex in Columbia where she lived, according to Howard County police.

The woman, whose name was not released, was 'acting erratically' and officers who responded felt threatened, said Sherry Llewellyn, a police spokeswoman. A knife was recovered at the scene, Llewellyn said.

The woman, a resident at Park View at Snowden River, was injured in the lower torso and was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, Llewellyn said. Her injury was not considered life-threatening. Read more

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“She meant the world to her dad.”

Andrew Ray Sturgil and Stephanie Ann Dorsey met just weeks ago.

Sturgil, a 31-year-old native of Kentucky, was in Maryland to see his young daughter. He met Dorsey, 24, through acquaintances renting the upstairs of the Glen Burnie home where Dorsey had been staying, according to a family friend.

Soon after the couple met, they began dating, the friend said.

'She was just real carefree, just always happy, always having a good time,' said Amanda Guy, the family friend who also lives in the home on Ferndale Road. Read more

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A tractor-trailer Friday overturned in Hopewell Township and spilled the three steel coils it carried into a nearby field, according to state police. via The York Daily Record

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“I wanted to get something on paper that would have the highest probability of becoming real”

- A skating rink that doubles as open market space in summer, a hotel with 300 rooms and conference space for 1,000, and a small-cities institute that draws people from around the world, all in a pedestrian-friendly setting.

Those are among the highlights of a $350 million plan that lays out the first phase of a transformation of downtown Columbia, an effort that could span three decades.

The much-anticipated redevelopment proposal for the commercial core centered on The Mall in Columbia is scheduled to be unveiled tonight by developer General Growth Properties Inc. Read more

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“There's this vibrancy and energy to Columbia”

Beverley Francis calls her new position as the president and chief executive officer of the Columbia Foundation the "culmination of a dream." She and her three daughters have dreamed of moving to Columbia ever ... via Howard County Times

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Deva expects to begin delivering the HD Radio products at the end of the summer 2008. via Radio Magazine

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