Elkridge News

Howard County police are searching for an attempted armed robbery suspect in Elkridge.

Thomas Meighan Jr. had been charged with less serious driving offenses related to a separate crash with an SUV and leaving the scene of the fatal hit-and-run, but Tuesdaya TMs indictment is a shift in the case.

A Baltimore grand jury indicted serial drunk-driver Thomas L. Meighan Jr. Tuesday for automobile manslaughter in the fatal hit-and-run last month of a promising Johns Hopkins University student.

Woodstock resident Nancy Gaither, the enthusiastic president of the Harbor City Music Company Show Chorus, recently wrote to share some exciting news.

Members of Howard County's state delegation will host a public hearing next week on proposed local legislation for the 2010 General Assembly session, which begins in January.

A five-year legal war between a trucking company and a neighborhood has come to an end.

Virginia-based defense contractor Intelligent Decisions Inc. has paid $4.4 million for Crossroads Distribution Center in Elkridge, a large industrial property space in the Baltimore-Washington corridor.

Junior League of Annapolis' 16th annual Book Bag Project donated 1,000 book bags filled with school supplies to Anne Arundel County Public Schools.

Perneita Farrar, 36, of Elkridge, has been unable to walk since 2005, when an infection damaged her spinal cord.

Grace Episcopal Church, on Montgomery Road, in Elkridge, would like to thank the Boy Scouts and all of the parents who helped out in the rain to complete Betsy's Garden.

More than 3,000 Howard County students have received the swine flu vaccine during the past three weeks in one of the largest school-based efforts in the Baltimore area.

Alzheimer's support group -- Second Thursday, 7-9 p.m. For caregivers of Alzheimer's patients or those who have a loved one suffering from Alzheimer's. Learn about the disease, what to expect and how to cope.

Nathaniel Quick and Devin Dixon were friends at Mayfield Middle School in Elkridge, but lost touch in high school.

A Columbia mansion that was the site of a Halloween party where one man was fatally shot and another was badly injured was the scene of another shooting at a similar event in June, a Howard County police spokeswoman said Tuesday.

For a few high school students at the Norbel School, journalism has proved to be great fun, rather than a tedious classroom task.

Posted 11/03/09 Aaron Thomas Brice, 19, of Silver Spring. The father of Aaron Thomas Brice, 19, of Silver Spring, said Tuesday he was struggling with the death of his son, who was killed in a shooting in Harpera s Choice early Sunday.

A Silver Spring family is in shock after the Halloween night murder of their son at a youth party in a million dollar mansion near Columbia, Maryland.

Howard County Police arrested 13 men on prostitution charges, as part of a sting in Jessup.

'That party doesn't take place, the shooting doesn't take place' By Jennifer Broadwater jbroadwater@patuxent.com "I've instructed my staff to look at every possible angle of the situation that brought this mayhem into the neighborhood,"said county executive Kenneth Ulman, referring to the Halloween party shooting that took place at $1.6 million ...

By Jennifer Broadwater and Mike Santa Rita jbroadwater@patuxent.com Posted 11/02/09 The home where two men were shot early Sunday morning.