Columbia News

Thanks to $300,000 from Maryland state government, about 30 older Columbia townhouses owned by a nonprofit and occupied by low- and moderate-income families will get a major energy-saving makeover in coming months.

A 24-year-old Columbia man with a history of reckless driving and drug convictions was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for his part in a fatal accident last November that killed his best friend.

Posted 7/02/09 Celebration Church began more than three decades ago with a dozen people meeting in the pastor's home.

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By Luke Broadwater lbroadwater@patuxent.com Posted 6/29/09 A 24-year-old Columbia man was sentenced to five years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to negligent vehicular homicide in a 2008 crash that killed his friend.

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Submitted photo Jonathan Robert Henderson and Mary-Kathryn Michele Abernathy were struck and killed Sunday morning along the shoulder of Interstate 70.

A Howard County judge has found a man guilty of breaking into the Columbia home of his ex-girlfriend's mother and her fiancee and stabbing them.

Matt Laforme, son and Dave and Karen Laforme of Kings Contrivance, graduated magna cum laude from Messiah College with a bachelor's degree in accounting in December.

According to his sister, Gregory Imes Jr. was so distraught after he repeatedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend's mother and her fiancee in their Columbia home last year that he actively sought out a confrontation with police so they would kill him.

A 27-year-old Howard County man was found guilty of two counts of attempted second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree assault and breaking and entering in connection with the stabbings of his ex-girlfriend's mother and her fiancee at their Columbia home in September 2008.

Shares of Osiris Therapeutics Inc. fell Wednesday following study results showing the stem-cell drug candidate Prochymal met safety goals but failed to improve lung function in pulmonary disease patients.

COLUMBIA, Md. - Music fans will be able to see Weezer, Blink-182, Franz Ferdinand and Public Enemy for free in August at a downsized Virgin Mobile Festival at a new location.

Voting on a bill that would create a method for redeveloping Columbia's village centers will likely be delayed at least until late July, according to a tentative Howard County Council decision taken late Monday.

Maryland State Police and hospital officials say a 22-year-old Elkridge man injured in a chain-reaction crash that killed two people has been released from the hospital, but another man remains in critical condition.

Baltimore County Police are investigating four accidents that left five people dead in a 24 hour period.

Brian England and Jim Henderson have a lot in common: Both are small business owners.

The 2009 Columbia Festival of the Arts wraps quite literally with a barrage of sound and action when the Canadian world music group Barrage performs next Saturday, June 27 at The Jim Rouse Theatre for the Performing Arts.

A Washington state man was hospitalized with multiple stab wounds and his female companion was charged with attempted murder as a result of the incident.

Del. Elizabeth Bobo finds peace of mind without saying a word with weeklong meditation at her annual retreat.