Edgewood News

Memorial Day weekend is considered the traditional start of summer, but for more than 2,500 Harford County students, summer won't begin until high school is officially over - forever.

A patient involved in an accident Thursday near Bel Air is taken by medical personnel to a waiting Medevac to be flown to the Maryalnd Shock Trauma Center.

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended a search Monday for a 21-year-old Edgewood man who allegedly did not resurface after jumping off a boat in the northern Chesapeake Bay Sunday afternoon.

An Edgewood man who was arrested earlier this month on attempted murder charges was ordered to remain held without bail Friday for an alleged violation of probation in an earlier case.

Approximately 60 Maryland Army National Guardsmen are deploying to Afghanistan. A deployment ceremony is set for Friday morning at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Edgewood.

On Thursday, May 17, 2012, William Scott Fetzer, 33, of Edgewood, MD, received a sentence of 20 years in prison, for dragging a Harford County Sheriff's Deputy with a car.

An Edgewood man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to dragging a Harford County Sheriff's Deputy with a vehicle following a traffic stop last December.

Local fire companies responded to a fire inside the small Belcamp post office, on Route 40 between Edgewood and Aberdeen, early Tuesday morning.

On Wednesday evening, May 9, 2012, Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested Jamar Jefferson, age 28, of the 1700 block of Judy Way in Edgewood MD, in connection with the triple shooting that occurred on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in the 1900 block of Edgewater Drive.

Jamar Jefferson, 28, of Edgewood, was charged Wednesday with attempted second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and use of a firearm in a felony.

The Maryland State Highway Administration is temporarily closing and detouring the interchange ramps from Route 715 north and south to Route 40 east in Aberdeen this weekend to replace three drainage pipes underneath the ramps.

Firefighters from Joppa-Magnolia, Abingdon and Aberdeen Proving Ground companies responded to the 1900 block of Juniper Road last week for a report of a fire shortly after 7 p.m., according to a Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office press release.

Police first received a report of shots fired in the 1900 block of Edgewater Drive shortly after 8 p.m., said Monica Worrell, a sheriff's spokeswoman.

Two people were shot in Edgewood Tuesday night and few details were available immediately after the incident.

As of 7 a.m. Monday, traffic was slow on Edgewood Road near Willoughby Beach Road in Edgewood, due to an accident.There were no major delays reported on Baltimore area transit systems.

Dozens of firefighters from three fire companies were called shortly after 7 p.m. to the 1900 block of Juniper Road in Edgewood, where a fire ignited in the kitchen of a house, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office.

A third person has been arrested in an Edgewood shooting in April that left a 27-year-old man in Maryland Shock Trauma in Baltimore.

About 200 people turned out for Sheriff Jesse Bane 's town hall-style meeting for the Edgewood and Joppa area Saturday to get an update on the status crime and traffic issues in the county.

At about 7:15 Monday evening, a 17 year old male, who was bleeding from multiple stab wounds to his upper torso, flagged down a Harford County Sheriff's Office patrol deputy on Woodbridge Center Way near Acorn Ridge Court in Edgewood.

A 17-year-old boy was found stabbed several times in the upper torso Monday evening, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office.