TOWSON, MD – The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers announced that Baltimore County Public Schools students have earned 12 Scholastic national medals for their achievements in visual and literary arts. The Scholastic awards program is the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in Grades 7–12. The dozen awards won by BCPS students were among the […]
PIKESVILLE, MD – With St. Patrick’s Day coming up on Sunday, Maryland State Police are urging those who plan to celebrate with alcohol to be safe and to avoid impaired, distracted, and aggressive driving. With an increase in impaired drivers expected throughout the state this weekend, state police will be conducting saturation patrols at each of the 23 barracks focusing on impaired, […]
Police are investigating several local crimes that were reported over the past week. Sometime between 4:30 and 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13, an individual broke into a home in the 9000-block of Gardenia Road (21236) by forcing open a back window. Cash and jewelry were stolen, then the suspect fled. At just before 7 p.m. on Wednesday, a man was assaulted by an […]
Baltimore County officials say a sanitary sewer pipe has failed in Middle River. The 30-inch pipe is located at the intersection of Compass Road and Decatur Road (21220). Repairs will impact traffic in the area. Due to the size and location of the break, the repair work is expected to take about one week. Officials say there was no sewage […]
UPDATE: Councilman Marks has provided an update on this project. Original story below… —— Baltimore County Councilman David Marks will hold a community meeting on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, to discuss an upcoming project to replace the water main along the Forge Road corridor in Perry Hall. The meeting will be held at the Perry Hall Family Worship Center (5125 […]
Image via WMVFC Crews battled a house fire in Perry Hall overnight. At about 3:15 a.m. on Thursday morning, units responded to the 4700-block of Forge Road. At the scene, firefighters found a single-family home fully engulfed in flames. The roof had already collapsed prior to units arriving on site. It took crews about two hours to extinguish the blaze. […]
A community is in mourning after a 7-year-old boy from Joppa was killed in a motor vehicle accident in Bel Air on Monday morning. Tripp Johnson was killed in a 12-vehicle pileup that occurred at about 7 a.m. on Monday along Route 24 at Ring Factory Road. The fiery crash occurred when a ShopRite tractor-trailer driven by Carloo Watson, 49, […]
A repeat offender would seem to be at it again. The White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company reports that a man wearing a Liberty Road Volunteer Fire Department shirt was soliciting donations at the intersection of Route 40 and Ebenezer Road on Tuesday afternoon. This same individual has reportedly been spotted soliciting fraudulent donations several times over the past few months. […]