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Laurel, Md. The Verizon Wireless Communications Store in Columbia, Md., has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star designation, the national symbol for superior energy efficiency and environmental.

The crew aboard space shuttle Endeavour includes an accomplished musician whose latest exploits are with the cello and steel guitar, an engineer who helped launch shuttles and a second-generation space program worker.

Share + Comments Feb 4, 2010 5:27 pm US/Eastern Reporting Mike Schuh COLUMBIA, Md.

A Howard County teacher is facing charges after police say she pushed an 11-year-old girl.

Share + Feb 3, 2010 5:51 pm US/Eastern Reporting Derek Valcourt COLUMBIA, Md. After years of debate, the Howard County Council has approved a major long-term plan intended to transform part of the town of Columbia into a bustling urban area.A As Derek Valcourt explains, the county is partnering with a developer to bring their vision of an urban ...

Fans of a plan to urbanize central Columbia celebrated Tuesday at the cold, snowy statues of founder James W. Rouse and his brother, Willard, on the frozen shores of Lake Kittamaqundi.

Former Ehrlich administration transportation official Trent Kittleman plans to officially announce her candidacy for Howard County executive on Feb.

As the clock neared midnight Wednesday, a patient but angry Joel Prescott of Thunder Hill rose after waiting four hours to tell the Columbia Association board of directors exactly what he thinks of plans to eliminate free towels from the three association gyms.

Alice "Gail" Clark isn't sure how her life would have turned out had her husband, John, not read up about James Rouse 's planned community while attending graduate school at Howard University in the late 1960s.

Howard County's housing department will host a three-part series for residents on "Surviving the Recession." Sessions include seminars on budgeting, savings and home ownership.

The Public Communications Office coordinates several programs that are designed to link citizens with their city government.

With a final Howard County Council vote scheduled Monday on rezoning downtown Columbia for three decades of urban-style redevelopment, advocates for housing affordable to low-wage workers feel their hopes for a last-minute compromise are dead.

A Howard County Grand Jury indicted a Columbia man Jan. 6 for killing an 82-year-old Owen Brown woman as she crossed Cradlerock Way near Lake Elkhorn and the Owen Brown Village Center in late November.

Nearly seven months after two spectators, including a Columbia woman, were killed at an alleged street race in Baltimore County, a 26-year-old from Pikesville has been charged in the case.

With the struggle over how to rezone central Columbia for transformation into an urbanized downtown fast approaching a final Howard County Council vote, the thorny issue of affordable housing remains in dispute.

Bernie Edwards, of Kings Contrivance, stands with Mickey and Minnie Mouse at Disney World, in Florida.

By Mike Santa Rita msantarita@patuxent.com Posted 1/20/10 Charges against an 88-year-old man accused of killing a fellow resident at a Columbia assisted living facility in August have been dropped.

The newly-revived Central Maryland chapter of the Afro-American Historical Genealogical Society will be hosting Millie L. McGhee-Morris, author of What's Done in the Dark and Drifted Back in Time, Deep Secrets Revealed , this Saturday, January 23, 2010, at the Owen Brown Community Center in Columbia, Maryland.

Bob Sima is in the Netherlands. By phone, he describes the landscape. "It's beautiful here, lots of snow," the singer-songwriter says.

A Columbia teenager suffered serious injuries early Friday morning following a single-vehicle collision in Columbia in which police say alcohol probably was involved.