Baltimore County News

The Baltimore County Personnel and Salary Board has voted 4 to nothing to approve an 8 percent pay raise for the next county executive.

Bill Toohey, Baltimore County Police spokesman since 1996, is being replaced by a uniformed officer.

Baltimore County Police have several roads in Essex closed down as public works crews work to repair a 12-inch water main that broke Thursday morning.

Bill Toohey, a former radio reporter who has been the chief spokesman for the Baltimore County Police Department since March 1996, is to be replaced with a uniformed officer, a county spokesman confirmed Wednesday.

A Baltimore schools police officer faces up to six years in prison for possession of child pornography.

A man released from prison in January after serving nearly 10 years in a 1999 killing is wanted in connection with the death of a teen who was found Tuesday gagged with a pillowcase and stabbed.

Baltimore County Police have obtained an arrest warrant for Damon Dameo Gray, 17, who was recently released from jail on an unrelated crime.

Baltimore County could become the latest Maryland jurisdiction to prohibit the use of tanning facilities by minors.

A woman who was found dead after an apartment fire Saturday in Reisterstown has been identified as Rose Lea Salzman, 67.

County health departments around Maryland are receiving doses of the 2009 novel H1N1 vaccine and administering it to people in target groups, but the supply is still not what health officials would like it to be, and the reasons for the continued slow distribution pace aren't entirely clear.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III is one of America's 10 best college presidents, according to the latest issue of Time magazine, adding to the list of national honors received this year by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

TOWSON - A judge has overturned an order cutting in half the severance compensation of the former CEO of CareFirst.

A 37-year-old Lutherville woman pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder in the death a year ago of a man with whom she was romantically involved, authorities in Baltimore County said.

The University System of Maryland's Board of Regents defied state lawmakers Wednesday afternoon and agreed not to adopt a policy to prohibit students from screening obscene material on its campuses.

To get the chance to meet her favorite author, Sally DeWitt had to overcome more obstacles than, well, a character in a Stephen King novel.

Simone Ward, newly hired campaign manager for Barbara Mikulski's 2010 re-election campaign, is on the program at tonight's Central Baltimore County Democratic Club meeting in Towson.

Baltimore County Police are investigating two shooting incidents that occurred in the Towson area within 30 minutes of each other Sunday night.

Share + Nov 10, 2009 11:28 am US/Eastern Reporting Mike Schuh Click to enlarge 1 of 1 The city confiscated 19 horses near the B&O Railroad Museum Tuesday after a health inspector found the animals were living in "unsafe and inhumane" conditions.

Baltimore County police say the man who allegedly stabbed a Baltimore city officer outside a Dundalk strip club has been charged.

A A A About three minutes later, at 12:33 p.m., McLaughlin, who had justA A fired five shots into owner Wayne Keary, walked outside to the front lawn, pointed the gun at his head and pulled the trigger.