TOWSON, MD—The Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks on Friday announced its fall 2025 event and festival series including celebrations of culture and the great outdoors. Music in the Park Friday, September 12 from 5 to 8 p.m. Enjoy live music with food and drink vendors on site. FREE Holt Park and Center for the Arts 34 Elmont Avenue […]
TOWSON, MD—Eleven students from Baltimore County Public Schools have been named semifinalists in the 71st annual National Merit Scholarship Program, the school system announced Wednesday. These students are among the highest-scoring entrants nationwide on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). More than 1.3 million high school juniors took the exam to enter the program. The recognized students represent […]
CATONSVILLE, MD—Police have identified the victims in Thursday’s double murder suicide in Catonsville. At approximately 3:30 p.m. on August 28, officers responded to the 700-block of Wilton Farm Drive (21228) for a check-on-subject call. Once on scene, officers located 42-year-old Chantel Sharieff, suffering from apparent trauma, along with her 6-year-old child, Kimana Sharieff, who sustained an apparent gunshot wound. Both […]
UPDATE: Police have identified the victims in this incident. Original story below… ——— CATONSVILLE, MD—Police are investigating Thursday’s triple-shooting in Catonsville as a double murder suicide. At approximately 3:30 p.m. on August 28, officers responded to the 700-block of Wilton Farm Drive (21228) for a check-on-subject call. Once on scene, officers located an adult female suffering from apparent trauma along […]
UPDATE 2: Police have identified the victims in this incident. UPDATE: Police are now investigating this incident as a double murder suicide. Original story below… CATONSVILLE, MD—Police are investigating after three people were found dead following a shooting in Baltimore County. At approximately 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 28, officers responded to a “check on subject” call in the 700-block […]
BALTIMORE, MD—A registered sex offender from Baltimore County has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possession of child sexual abuse material, federal authorities announced this week. Steven Christopher Kelban, 50, of Catonsville, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett to a decade in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release. This is Kelban’s third conviction related […]
TOWSON, MD—Two Baltimore County high schools have been ranked among the top five in Maryland by U.S. News & World Report, with a total of six schools placing in the state’s top 50. Eastern Technical High School held its position as the No. 1 high school in Maryland, while Western School of Technology jumped to No. 5, up from No. […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Two men, both illegally present in the United States, face federal charges for allegedly assaulting and resisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in separate incidents in Maryland, authorities announced. Adolfo Nimrod Hernandez-Ramos, 42, a Honduran national, and Tony Marcos Ferreira-Dos Santos, 30, a Brazilian national, were charged with assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, and interfering with federal officers, according […]