Joppatowne News

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien will be celebrating the 11:15 a.m. Mass on Sunday at Holy Spirit Church in Joppatowne, where a fire last week destroyed the parish center.

A fire that took 75 firefighters nearly 45 minutes to bring under control destroyed the parish center of a Harford County church Wednesday, causing an estimated $3.5 million in damage.

Detectives working a serial robbery case say they nabbed a suspect seconds after he struck a pharmacy on the Pulaski Highway corridor in Harford County Thursday night.

William M. Griffin, 22, of Essex, was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for his role in a drug deal in January that resulted in the shooting death of a bystander.

State police have charged a 21-year-old Edgewood man and a 17-year-old Joppatowne girl with several felonies in the carjacking of a woman Monday night in Harford County.

Harford County students who celebrated the announcements of school closing because of snow or ice may find themselves in class when the air conditioners are straining to keep temperatures in check.

It is the time of year for hummingbirds, especially the ruby-throated species, to head south, and if you have a feeder you are likely to see clusters of them as they fuel up for the long trip.

A story from the Dec. 23, 1988 Evening Sun shows the photos of 3 Marylanders who died aboard Pan Am flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Food defense and "agro-terrorism" are the class' topics of the day. Meade High School is one of the first in the nation to offer a four-year course in domestic security.

At this point, no neighbor is above suspicion. "It kind of makes you look at them a second and third time,a said Parham, a oeIt makes you question their motives about who's house... you kinds are going to go over to their house... whether you can let them in their house." Inside her Foster Knoll Drive townhouse in Joppatowne, prosecutors say ...