Jessup News

Elkridge residents are turning to lawmakers from Howard County for help fighting the potential placement of a CSX rail transfer facility in their community, arguing that lower costs should not be the only factor considered.

A Maryland company is one of the Department of Energy's top innovators. The DOE announced Friday that Jessup-based Vorbeck Materials is one of three finalists selected from 14 start ups in its "America's Next Top Energy Innovator" challenge.

The sentencing of Lee E. Stephens will begin Monday following his first-degree murder conviction for killing a guard at the now-closed Maryland House of Correction in Jessup.

A man accused of beating one of his roommates to death at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center last fall was found competent Thursday morning to stand trial in Howard County Circuit Court.

Five members of the Elkridge community appeared in Annapolis Wednesday to ask the Howard County Delegation to spare their neighborhood from a freight facility.

Jurors are expected to resume deliberations in the death penalty trial of one of two prisoners accused in the stabbing death of a correctional officer.

Jury deliberations in the death-penalty trial of a convicted killer charged in the murder of a correctional officer are scheduled to resume Monday morning in Anne Arundel County.

Columbia: Commercial Robbery Attempt Shortly before 7 p.m. on Jan. 30, an unknown suspect gave a note to a an employee of the pharmacy at Giant Food, on the 7200 block of Cradlerock Way, implying a weapon and demanding prescription drugs.

A man previously accused of trying to help his wife kill herself told investigators that he stabbed her in the heart in their Silver Spring home over the weekend, according to prosecutors and court documents.

Sporting the custom T-shirts that helped them raise money for the cause, member of the Anne Arundel County Professional Firefighters union yesterday donated $10,000 to a charity dedicated to fighting breast cancer.

As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, traffic was slow on Route 175 at Sellner Road in Jessup, due to an accident.An accident was slowing traffic on 33rd Street and Loch Raven Boulevard in Baltimore City.The Baltimore City Department of Transportation is warning motorists that Park Avenue will be closed to through traffic between Centre and Monument streets ... (more)

Aligning themselves with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, members of a handful of different activist groups, including those identifying with the Occupy movement, stopped in Howard County over the weekend on their way from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. "We greeted them ecstatically," said Mary Hill who is affiliated withA Howard County MoveOn , ... (more)