North Laurel News

Western Howard County residents who have battled for nearly two years to block a proposed used car dealership in rural Daisy dominated County Executive Ken Ulman's third annual town hall meeting with residents Wednesday night in Ellicott City .

As the population grows and baby boomers age, Howard County General Hospital is bracing for an influx of patients, armed with a new, five-level patient pavilion.

For the fiscal year starting July 1, the county is due $438,062 from the local share of that same state program.

Ellicott City's Sweet bakery and cafe will host the latest Music Matters Songwriters Showcase this Saturday, June 27, 6:30-9:30 p.m. On the bill will be and Ash .

Defendant admits guilt, tells victims, 'I'm so sorry' Posted 6/26/09 A Columbia man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to the non-fatal stabbing of his former girlfriend and her teenage daughter in North Laurel last summer.

Marshalee Drive, 6100 block, 12:59 a.m. June 22. Unknown persons entered Timbers of Troy Golf Course and set fire to a water cooler and forced open a nearby storage shed.

A well-known Howard County liquor store was fined $500 for selling alcohol to a 19-year old police cadet, even though she showed her driver's license for identification.

Howard County's long struggle to eliminate school crowding seemed won over the past two years when no elementary or middle schools were projected beyond capacity, but this year six primary schools are on the annual list of future trouble spots.

Highbanks Court, 6400 block, between 1 a.m. and 8:38 a.m. June 7. White 2001 Ford E-350 van stolen.

At a time when charitable giving is down because of the national recession, United Way of Central Maryland will stop funding for Howard County's main homeless shelter for the first time since 1978.

Bulldozers should be appearing within the next few weeks in what are now woods and grass between the rear of Laurel Woods Elementary School and Whiskey Bottom Road, and the $25.2 million combined facility is to open in October 2010 - after a mere two decades of effort for what most acknowledge is an old, settled area without enough public ...

Those interested in jobs connected with the Base Realignment and Closure process can learn more at a job fair June 13.

Marcelo da Luz's low-slung experimental solar car seemed far more stylish than even bankrupt General Motors ' iconic '59 Chevy gull-wing design as he accelerated around the parking lot of Forest Ridge Elementary in Howard County before several hundred admiring children.

Montgomery Road, 7200 block, between 11 a.m. and 5:25 p.m. May 19. Apartment entered by prying open the front door.

By Mike Santa Rita msantarita@patuxent.com Posted 5/27/09 James Lentscher had always wanted to earn a college degree and be a police officer.

Richards Valley Road, 5700 block, 3:06 a.m. May 18. Police responded to Coal Fire Pizza for a business alarm and found the front door glass smashed.

The following is compiled from police reports. The Howard County Times includes descriptions of perpetrators only when the description makes identification possible.

Every day, for about an hour at a time, about 60 of Laurel County's high school students dig in the dirt.

Washington Boulevard, 5800 block, between April 27 and May 4. Charles Memphis business office was entered.

A Columbia man serving a four-year prison sentence for assaulting a police officer will have his sentence suspended upon his admission to an in-patient drug addiction program followed by residency in a halfway house.