Category: Anne Arundel County

Baltimore Sun
Anne Pearson gives her collie, Siri, the run of the fenced-in yard. She says she always keeps watch from the window. At night, the dog sleeps in her bedroom.

But in the eyes of Anne Arundel County’s Animal Control, …

WBAL.com
A female midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy has died after her roommates found her unconscious and not breathing in her bed.

The service academy says the first-year student was pronounced dead at Anne Arundel Medical Center a short time …

WJZ
Anne Arundel County police are trying to determine who owns the 18 chickens found in a homeowner’s yard in Glen Burnie.

The woman living in the 1600 block of Lorimer Road told police last week the chickens did not belong …

Examiner
A Virginia company won a $370 million contract to build the new home of defense information at Fort Meade.

“The contract award is the first tangible step in the Base Realignment and Closure transformation at Fort Meade,” Army Col. Kenneth …

WBAL.com
Sandi Henley opened a letter from Anne Arundel County School Superintendent Kevin Maxwell that made her see red. The letter about MSA testing was written in English on one side and Spanish on the other.

“We just felt it was …

Baltimore Sun
A 45-year-old Pasadena man awaiting trial on drug charges at an Anne Arundel County jail has died, the third inmate at the Annapolis facility to lose his life in four weeks.

James Leroy Downs, who entered the Jennifer Road …

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Excerpts from the Sun article:
An attempt by the Naval Academy to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. this week by serving fried chicken, greens and cornbread in the midshipmen’s dining …

The Annapolis Capital (via WBAL.com) brings us the story of an Anne Arundel County man who was given 60 days in jail for not cleaning up his yard.  A judge sentenced George B. “Brad” Hartsuff, III of Cape …

An Anne Arundel County official told County Council that the relocation of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to Fort Meade from Arlington, Virginia will run from December 2010 to September 2011 and will result in 4,300 jobs migrating …

Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold issued an executive order Tuesday that will require all contractors doing business with the county to sign an affidavit certifying that they don’t employ illegal immigrants. Violating the order will result in the …