Elkridge News

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.

Howard County police say two men have been charged for a shooting at a Halloween party that left one man dead and another wounded.

Baltimore prosecutors are investigating whether they can charge an Elkridge man with vehicular manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of a Johns Hopkins University student.

Howard County police are investigating a collision between a sport-utility vehicle and a Howard transit bus on Route 1 in Elkridge Friday morning that sent five people to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries and closed a portion of Route 1 for an hour.

As many of you know, Mt. View Middle School student Vincent Woodward and his mother, Jennifer Kim, died in a tragic car accident on Route 32 this past June.

Some offenses dropped in fatal Md. hit-and-run BALTIMORE a ' Baltimore prosecutors are investigating whether they can charge an Elkridge man with vehicular manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of a Johns Hopkins University student.

A Howard County man has been arrested and charged with distributing child pornography.

Prosecutors dropped all but the most serious traffic offenses - those carrying jail time - against Thomas Meighan Jr.

Share + Oct 22, 2009 2:41 pm US/Eastern HOWARD COUNTY, Md. About 1,300 Howard County elementary students are expected to receive the H1N1 vaccine Friday, making Howard County one of the first school systems in the region where the sought-after medication will be distributed, according to health officials.

The State Highway Administration plans to plant 3,900 trees in Howard County over the next year as part of a larger planting in Central Maryland.

This is the goal... The whir of the mixer mashing the potatoes, the warmth of the air from the oven opening too many times, the nutmegy scent of pumpkin pie, the complete meal in all its glory - ah, the total indulgence of the senses that is Thanksgiving dinner in the making.

By Luke Broadwater lbroadwater@patuxent.com Posted 10/20/09 Howard County health officials expected to receive 50,000 doses of the H1N1 - or swine flu - vaccine from the federal government by the end of the October.