Howard County News

A Columbia man has been indicted by a Howard County grand jury on charges he held up an Ellicott City pharmacy with a bloody syringe , as well as for robbery charges in an incident at a Bank of America branch in Columbia.

The Howard County Council, in its sixth straight 4-1 partisan vote on the budget, passed a $899 million spending plan Thursday for fiscal 2013, as well as companion legislation to raise the county fire tax rate to 17.6 cents per $100 of assessed value.

Howard County Police are investigating the second fatal vehicle collision in Ellicott City in two days.

Police have identified the victim in Wednesday night's fatal motorcycle collision .

A A woman reported that her 12-year-old son saw a naked man on Landing Road in Elkridge on Saturday, said police.

Howard County plans to buy Belmont -the Elkridge estate built in the 1730s-and use it as a history and nature park, County Executive Ken Ulman announced Wednesday.

A motorcyclist died Wednesday night after a collision in Ellicott City, according to officials.A According to Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services Battalion Chief Joe Dixon, rescue crews were called to the westbound side of Route 100 for a report of a collision.

A Howard County police are looking for aA suspect or group of suspects that shattered front glass windows and stole cashA from 11 different businesses in east Columbia between the overnight hours of May 29 and 30.

A Savage teenager faces charges in connection with an armed robbery, which also involved an Ellicott City man and an accused gang member from Columbia, according to the Baltimore Sun.

A The Howard County Council on Thursday prefiled a bill that wouldA establish a partnership toA direct Downtown Columbia.

Charges are pending against a juvenile who police say burglarized a home and a business in Ellicott City.

Howard County Council's only Republican, Greg Fox, filed an amendment to Howard County's proposed budget Tuesday afternoon that would limit the increase of the fire tax, which officials have said would pay for new firefighters and an additional ambulance.

A County Executive Ken Ulman said he will be making an announcement about the future of the Belmont property in Elkridge on Wednesday.

A Summer may not officially begin until June 20, but anyone that spent any time outside over Memorial Day Weekend, knows for all intents and purposes, summer is here.

There are 180 days in a school year; from kindergarten through graduation, that makes for 2,340 days of school.

Howard County needs a new courthouse to replace an aging building and bring the court system into the 21st century, according to an administrative judge.

The blaze ignited at about 6:30 a.m. in the 7200 block of Wayne Avenue in Jessup.

A Howard County man was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Ocean City on Memorial Day, police said.

ELLICOTTA CITY, Md. -Tears and hugs were on the menu Monday at a Howard County landmark.

May 27, 2012 -- The crimes appear ordinary on Howard County's November police log -- two break-ins on U.S. 1, another at a Columbia home where a television and video games were taken, and a man held up at gunpoint in the village of Kings Contrivance.