Jessup News

2731-2733 Annapolis Road encompasses 3.5 acres improved with a 23,050 SF building and additional pad site.

Payne Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church, 7901 Brockbridge Road in Jessup, will celebrate 115 years of ministry with an anniversary service at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow.

The O'Malley Senior Center, 1275 Odenton Road, Odenton recently announced its calendar for this month.

Howard County Police arrested 13 men on prostitution charges, as part of a sting in Jessup.

Two Howard County detectives step away from the scene of the crime in the Forest Glen development.

The notes of Bach's "French Suite No. 5" floated up to the skylights, the pure sound filling the tiny room.

The Jessup Improvement Association will host its "Everything under the Sun Bazaar" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the association's community hall at Wigley Avenue and Route 175.

Classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein plays piano at the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women in Jessup.

The Jessup Volunteer Fire Department, 7891 Max Blobs Park Road, will hold an open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

A new law restricting the state's use of the death penalty is getting its first legal test in Anne Arundel County as prosecutors and defense attorneys prepare for a 2006 murder case involving the slaying of a correctional officer in Jessup.

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.

In a setback to a prisoner challenging the state's new death penalty curbs, Maryland's 24 state's attorneys will not be called to testify how they decide whether to seek capital punishment in murder cases.

Ridgeway Elementary School, 1440 Evergreen Road in Severn, is starting off this school year where they left off last spring - with the goal of a "green school." The school's Environmental Club has become so popular with students that two sessions have to be held.

Volvo Rents Hardhat Comedy Tour stopped last week at Lorenzo's Timonium Dinner Theatre in Timonium, Md., near Baltimore.

For nearly thirty years, four women have had to worry that the man who raped them was still at large.

Even elementary-age students will study Arabic and Spanish at a new "contract" school planned for west county, parents learned this week.

Scientists prevented age-related changes in the hearts of mice and preserved heart function by suppressing a form of the PI3K gene, in a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association .

A stretch of U.S. 1 in Jessup and North Laurel that has long been known as a haven for prostitutes has recently gained another reputation: an area where police are cracking down on those looking to pay for sex.

State prison officials said Thursday a notification system to be used by the prison complex south of Hagerstown in the event of escapes is almost in place.

Break out the beer stein and get your lederhosen dry-cleaned - It's Oktoberfest, ja! Complete with beer, bratwurst and all things Bavarian, the German festival is taking over the Roland E. Powell Convention Center this weekend, marking the 28th year of the event in Ocean City.