Pasadena News

A missing Pasadena woman has been found dead. Kathleen Kovacsi, an Alzheimer's sufferer, went missing from her home at the 7600-block of Solley Road last week.

Rain poured down on Anne Arundel County during a summer storm last night, partially flooding the emergency room at Baltimore Washington Medical Center.

The body of a missing 57-year-old woman was found yesterday in a wooded area near her Pasadena home, but Anne Arundel County police said there was no sign of foul play.

A missing Pasadena woman has been found dead. Kathleen Kovacsi, an Alzheimer's sufferer, went missing from her home at the 7600-block of Solley Road last week.

The Milk Mustache Mobile Tour continues to make stops in the area through Sunday to encourage healthy living and celebrate moms who create nutrition-conscious homes.

In the same week that an Anne Arundel County police officer was shot in Brooklyn, two more officers were assaulted while responding to calls, police said yesterday.

Everyone remembers the drama of summer camp, especially the last weekend. "Camp Hawyah v2.0" will go out with a bang this weekend, too - literally.

Anne Arundel County posted gains in 11 out of the 12 categories of the Maryland School Assessment, according to results released by the state yesterday, and school officials are crediting a greater focus on ...

Concert Trudy Marie will perform country and pop music at 12:30 p.m. today at the South County Senior Center, 27 Stepney's Lane in Edgewater.

If I were on the hunt for Diamond Jim in the upper bay, tell you what I'd be doing in the effort to pocket the $10,000 on his head and the $5,000 diamond added as a bonus by Smyth Jewelers.

The fate of slot machines in Anne Arundel County may hinge less on whether Maryland as a whole passes November's referendum than the results from county voters.

To the armed men in the Pasadena parking lot, the driver of the Mazda they flagged down Saturday night with the intention of robbing appeared to be a typical good Samaritan pulling over to help some stranded ...

Anne Arundel County police say two men robbed an off-duty county officer and fired a shot into his car before fleeing.

The state Board of Public Works has awarded Anne Arundel County $2.3 million to improve three parks, including building a visitor center at a popular Millersville park, developing a Crownsville park and improving athletic fields in Pasadena.

Kinder Farm Park in Millersville will receive the bulk of the Program Open Space funding, with $1.1 million going to the design and construction of a 5,600-square-foot visitor center, the state announced. The 288-acre farm was purchased by the county in 1979 to educate visitors about Maryland's agrarian heritage and direct visitors to activities that include fishing, biking, hiking and picnicking.

The kids hadn't even started practicing and they were already sweating on a hot, sticky Thursday night.

Kimberly Newsom, of Glen Burnie, stands next to her 1999 Chevrolet Malibu yesterday outside the Exxon at 8101 Ritchie Highway.

A 25-year-old man walking with his father in Pasadena last night thwarted what could have been an armed robbery by punching the gunman in the face and stealing his .380 caliber handgun, Anne Arundel County police said this morning.

The armed man and an accomplice then drove away, but police said they later found the two suspects and a third person and charged them with trying to rob the man in Pasadena and with trying to rob a woman in Glen Burnie earlier last night.

Authorities said the first attack occurred about 10:50 p.m. in the 7800 block of Americana Circle in Glen Burnie when a 39-year-old woman reported being attacked as she walked from her parked car to her apartment. She told police a person pointed a gun at her and demanded her car keys.

Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake is opening a retail store in Pasadena next month.

A 50-year-old Anne Arundel County woman was killed last night when she lost control of her car on Ritchie Highway in Severna Park , struck a guardrail, spun around and overturned, police said this morning.

As a child, Mary Canaan spent family road trips crammed with four siblings in the back seat of her parents' old Monte Carlo. No one used seat belts.

And child safety seats? Practically unheard of.

'I remember we used to put a piece of luggage in the back seat and that's what I used to sit on,' said Canaan, of Pasadena, who now makes sure that her young grandchildren are always buckled up.

Starting Monday, Maryland will enforce one of the strictest child-passenger safety laws in the country, requiring children as old as 7 to be fastened in booster seats while riding in cars. The current state law requires children 5 and under to be in a child safety seat.