Anne Arundel County News

Back on May 19, I spotted a few cicada shells - golden brown empty casings - scattered in my Huntingtown yard.

The cases sound ridiculous -- suspending elementary school kids for wishing they had a gun to protect against bad guys? For shaping snack food into a gun-like form? The reaction to such punishment for kids pretending to play with guns is widespread: where's the common sense? The case of Josh Welch of Anne Arundel County brought national attention.

It's been more than two years since David Scott Corrigan was caught by a police officer slicing a campaign sign from its frame outside the headquarters of a pro-slots campaign committee in Severna Park.

GOOD EVENING. FOUR TONS OF BATTERIES HAVE BEEN STOLEN FROM VEHICLES ACROSS ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS.

Three cheers for zero tolerance policies in schools. The following excerpt, from Schoolhouse Beat, is the latest in a long list of teachers and administrators using zero tolerance to mean zero judgement.

Maryland court documents allege that Montclair Police Officer Anes Hadziefejzovic "used his status as a police officer to assist in the transportation of marijuana and cash between Maryland, New Jersey, and Ohio."

Anne Arundel County Police have charged two men with stealing 17,000 pounds of batteries from vehicles and selling them at scrap yards.

A prisoner transport van departs from the Baltimore City Detention Center on June 6. Allegations of sex, drugs and access to contraband cellphones are roiling the jail.

The "dead zone" that forms every summer in the Chesapeake Bay, stressing and even killing some fish, crabs and shellfish, is projected to be smaller than normal this year.

As rain moves through the D.C. Metro area this afternoon and evening, a Flash Flood Watch is in effect for the District as well as the following areas through 6 p.m. In Maryland: - Anne Arundel County - Charles County - Calvert County - Prince George's County

Anne Arundel County officials say a 72-year-old-man, who was badly burned in a fire earlier this month has died of his injuries.

Anne Arundel County Animal Control is asking for the public's help to find out who shot a cat with an arrow in the Davidsonville area.

"Xena," a cat around 2-years-old was recently found with an arrow her shoulder says Anne Arundel County police.

Police say four people who were sitting on an outdoor patio at a restaurant in Annapolis, Md., were struck by a car that jumped the curb.

A decade since the 2003 tropical storm that began its fiscal and operational woes, Market House in downtown Annapolis is expected to reopen in the coming weeks with a lineup of vendors selling falafel, gelato, sandwiches and crab cakes from the historic building.

A man faces drug charges after an officer found him with 590 pills packaged for sale, according to Anne Arundel County Police officials.

This group of teens might have thought they were pretty smart when they used a Maryland woman's credit card to pay for a photo booth session , but pretty soon they might feel dumber than they look in these silly pictures.

The 78-year-old man drove into an outdoor eating area at Zoe's Kitchen at 1901 Towne Centre Boulevard in the Annapolis Towne Centre just before 1:30 p.m., said Division Chief Keith Swindle, a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.

Anne Arundel County firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at a Davidsonville home Monday afternoon.

Anne Arundel County police are seeking information on the suspect involved in the armed robbery of a Shell Gas Station on Friday night in Brooklyn Park.