Howard County News

As Howard County prepares for Sunday's start of the cold-weather shelter program, local emphasis is shifting toward preventing homelessness, aided by a $253,000 federal stimulus grant and a nonprofit's relaunch.

A person who saw a pair of masked men switching vehicles Friday helped lead to the arrests of two bank robbery suspects, according to Howard County police.

Two men were taken into custody Friday morning following an armed bank robbery in Jessup, county police said.

Two men from Prince George's County have been charged by Howard County police with robbing a Jessup bank Friday.

Extracting hydrogen and oxygen from water and burning the gas in your vehicle engine to boost gas mileage and cut emissions? Crazy, many engineers and other experts say.

Howard County police have two men in custody following an armed bank robbery in Jessup that led to a vehicle pursuit and foot chase this morning.

Posted 11/12/09 The Howard County Health Department plans to open a methadone clinic next spring at its offices on Columbia Gateway Drive, in east Columbia, to treat recovering heroin addicts, the county's health officer said this week.

Howard County police are investigating a fatal crash on Route 32 involving two vehicles Thursday morning.

By Sarah Breitenbach sbreitenbach@patuxent.com Posted 11/10/09 Last weeka s election of Republican governors in Virginia and New Jersey has some Howard County GOP leaders encouraged about their partya s chances in next yeara s local contests.

The route of Saturday's high speed chase through parts of Carroll and Howard counties.

Share + Nov 10, 2009 9:44 pm US/Eastern Reporting Kelly McPherson BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md.

For a few high school students at the Norbel School, journalism has proved to be great fun, rather than a tedious classroom task.

The Music and Drama Boosters of Murray Hill Middle School are sponsoring More than Baskets Bingo fundraiser tonight, Nov.

By Mike Santa Rita msantarita@patuxent.com Posted 11/02/09 Two Howard County detectives step away from the scene of the crime in the Forest Glen development.

Unknown suspect gained entry by removing a rear sliding glass door. Suspect disturbed items in the residence, but nothing was reported stolen.

By Mary T. Robbins Phelan mphelan@patuxent.com Posted 11/05/09 Brett Arnold, of Glenwood, and Scott Quinn, of Woodbine, have opened up a barbecue trailer on the parking lot of St.

By Luke Broadwater lbroadwater@patuxent.com Posted 11/04/09 After Devin "Devon" O'Brian Dixon was shot trying to rob a drug dealer in 2005, Nathaniel Quick came to his aid, driving his friend to the hospital in critical condition.

Howard County police announced Tuesday that they had arrested 13 men in their latest prostitution sting in Jessup Oct.

A Howard County District Court judge denied bail Monday to a former Columbia resident, recently extradited from Mexico, who is charged in the 2005 murder of a West Friendship man.

By Jennifer Broadwater and Mike Santa Rita jbroadwater@patuxent.com Posted 11/02/09 The home where two men were shot early Sunday morning.