School board lobbies legislators for funding, policy changes
School officials Monday lobbied state and local legislators for expansion of the pre-kindergarten program and for measures to allow school administrators to hire experts without state certificates to...
View ArticleRural conservation bill faces opposition in public hearing
A bill that would designate half of Anne Arundel County's land for conservation encountered stiff opposition Monday night from constituents concerned that the initiative will encourage development...
View ArticleWoman fatally stabbed in Glen Burnie
Anne Arundel police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a 28-year-old woman Monday afternoon in Glen Burnie. Police identified the victim Tuesday morning as Ikea Nicole Jackson. Police did not...
View ArticleArundel Center evacuated after reports of smoke
Anne Arundel County's government headquarters was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after fire alarms went off in the building. A spokesperson for the Annapolis Fire Department said units are on the scene...
View ArticleSeverna Park Middle School closes bathroom due to threatening graffiti
Severna Park Middle School administrators closed down a bathroom in the building Tuesday around noon after finding threatening graffiti.The ink writings contained "a threat to the school and an...
View ArticleSquabble over vice chair highlights Republican infighting
Anne Arundel County Council members were unanimous Monday night in their support of Councilman John Grasso, R-Glen Burnie, as the body's next chairman. That consensus promptly broke down when it came...
View Article1 taken to hospital after Glen Burnie barricade
An hours-long standoff between a Glen Burnie man and police on Tuesday ended with the man suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said.Mario Alexander Taylor, 38, was taken to the...
View ArticlePair with gun rob Annapolis 7-Eleven
Police are searching for two men in an armed robbery of a 7-Eleven early Wednesday morning in Annapolis. The robbery occurred around 12:15 a.m. at the 7-Eleven in the 600 block of Taylor Avenue. Two...
View ArticleThree wanted in armed robbery of Glen Burnie 7-Eleven
Anne Arundel police are searching for three people, one of whom was armed with a gun, that robbed a Glen Burnie 7-Eleven early Wednesday morning. The robbery occurred around 12:53 a.m. at the store in...
View ArticleWoman convicted in Lothian love triangle murders
A 43-year-old woman was convicted Wednesday in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court of killing her husband and his live-in lover last fall in Lothian. Ann Marie Anastasi entered Alford pleas to two...
View ArticleFor Abey, starting against Army is a dream come true
Pasadena resident grew up wanting to play in this game
View ArticleFor county's first transit director, focus will be on connecting people to jobs
Anne Arundel County's new transit director almost became a geologist. Fresh out of college, Ramond Robinson took a job mapping the watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay for the United States Geological...
View ArticleSuperintendent recommends nearly 70 students switch schools
Parent committee recommends taking no action
View ArticleWoman arrested in fatal Glen Burnie stabbing
A Grasonville woman was arrested Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of 28-year-old Ikea Nicole Jackson in Glen Burnie earlier this week, Anne Arundel County Police said Thursday. Tashaya Raeshon Turner,...
View ArticleAnnapolis mansion fire legacy: From tragedy to outreach
Sher Grogg lost 6 family members, now she'll 'never have another tree again'
View ArticleAnne Arundel tops weak employment growth in Maryland
Bureau of Labor Statistics report finds county produced 4,000 new jobs from June 2015 to June 2016
View ArticleTubman, Douglass statues would write new chapter of Maryland State House history
A proposal to place statues of anti-slavery heroes Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass in the Maryland State House would add a new chapter to the history of Maryland as told through its iconic...
View ArticleNavy: 'Midshipman' title will not change
Despite the Navy considering to remove the "man" from "midshipman" last winter, it will not change as it's a rank by U.S. law
View ArticleTraining teaches Annapolis police about 'implicit bias'
Anna Laszlo looked at the screen where three images appeared one by one and asked her audience to say the first thought that popped into their minds. The last image was a blurry photograph of two men,...
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