Published June 24, 2010 by Howard County Times in News, Community
Members of the Howard County Council, sitting as the zoning board, approved a change to a 122-acre tract of land on Coca Cola Drive in Hanover.In a three-to-two vote, they rezoned the property, which was initially expected to be home to a bott...
Published June 25, 2010 by The Columbia Flier, Howard County Times in News
John Hongku So, 44, of Glenwood, died Friday after his 2000 Toyota Sienna was struck by a trash truck shortly before noon at the intersection of routes 97 and 144 in Cooksville, county police said.The truck, registered to Goode Trash Removal I...
Sees increasing need outside of Laurel
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy puts the state's teenage birth rate at 65 per 1,000 young women between the ages of 15 and 19 years old. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygien...
An Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge struck down a ballot referendum Friday challenging a planned slots parlor at Arundel Mills mall, a decision that opponents have vowed to appeal to the state’s highest court.The referendum is not leg...
Published June 28, 2010 by The Columbia Flier, Howard County Times in News
Forecasters are calling for some relief from the oppressive heat and humidity on Tuesday, and even more relief on Wednesday.That is comforting news after county health officials issued another extreme heat alert on Monday — the second such w...
Published June 28, 2010 by The Columbia Flier, Howard County Times in News, Crime
Howard County police increased their presence at Merriweather Post Pavilion this past weekend with Phish in town, saying they anticipate increased illegal drug use at shows by the popular jam band.As a result, police arrested 21 people, seiz...
Published June 29, 2010 by The Columbia Flier, Howard County Times in News, Sports
Ken Hovet, a longtime Howard County teacher and coach, whose Oakland Mills football team won a state title in 1998, died Monday night after battling cancer for several months.Hovet, who was most recently a teacher and coach at Marriotts Ridge,...
Published June 30, 2010 by Howard County Times in Entertainment, Arts
It was among the first of the “jukebox musicals” whose success in the early 1990s lit the fuse on a sizzling string of theatrical firecrackers with little or no plot, minimal casts and sets, but with a lip-smackin’ playlist of “Hey, I remember tha...