Category: Howard County

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Howard County police arrested an 83-year-old man Monday night on charges that he tried to kill his wife at their Columbia home.

Calvin Ralph Payne was charged with attempted murder and assault after he allegedly struck his wife, Alma …

Baltimore Sun
Howard County’s innovative health access plan for uninsured residents will also have a dental component, county officials announced yesterday.

Residents who enroll in the Healthy Howard program, due to begin Oct. 1, will be eligible for discounts of 35 …

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 …

WJZ
Howard County police say a pedestrian wearing dark clothing and walking on a dark stretch of road was hit by an SUV and died.

It happened around 7 p.m. yesterday on state Route 175 near Pocomoke Drive in Jessup.

Police say …

Baltimore Sun
A proposed 160,000-square- foot Wegmans supermarket in Columbia was approved in a 4-1 vote by a reluctant Howard County Planning Board, but store officials still face several appeals filed by a food workers union.

The two-story store - nearly …

Howard County Police responded to a stabbing at the Mall in Columbia around 4 p.m. today. A 17-year old male victim was flown to Shock Trauma as a result of being stabbed multiple times. Two people have been detained …

Charles David Richardson has been charged in two recent Columbia murders. Richardson was charged with the murder of Trae Allen earlier this week and the murder of Alevtina Zhilina last month. Two companions of Richardson were also …

Baltimore City dispatchers contacted Howard County police Monday afternoon to inform them that there might be an injured person at a Columbia townhouse. Police arrived in the 5200 block of Brook Way to discover blood on a back …

The saga of “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey continued this week. Thursday, an unnamed instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis was confirmed to be one of the women working for Palfrey’s escort service and then Friday, in a …

An unidentified clerk at the 7-11 convenience store in the 5700 block of Columbia Road in Columbia was shot around 3 a.m. and died later at Shock Trauma. A call to 911 shortly after the shooting by someone outside …