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New Health-Food Chain Opens First Maryland Store
Business

New Health-Food Chain Opens First Maryland Store

WHAT: Sprouts Farmers Market is opening in Ellicott City! The new store will be the first Sprouts in Maryland, marking the grocer’s expansion to the mid-Atlantic to help meet the growing local demand for fresh, […]

Politics

Tough Cyberbullying Bill Heads to Full Senate Floor

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland –– Maryland lawmakers in 2013 passed “Grace’s Law,” a bipartisan bill that made it a misdemeanor to repeatedly and maliciously bully someone through use of a computer or cellphone. Five years later, some […]

Addulai Braima, 20, recently sentenced by Judge William V. Tucker, will spend five to 13 years behind bars for the violent drug-related robbery that occurred on Trotter Road in Clarksville. (Picture: Stock photo of the inside of a prison)
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Laurel Man Handed 13 Years for Robbery

A 20-year-old Laurel man was sentenced to 13 years in prison, five of which are without parole, for the April 2017, drug-related armed robbery at a Clarksville home. Abdulai Karim Sesay Braima, of the 91000 […]

Opinion

Young Men and Heinous Crimes: We Can Do Better

Since the time that I began watching the Howard County Police Crime Bulletin more than seven years ago, I have seen, on a continual basis, that overwhelmingly, the assailants, the suspects, and the convicted are […]

Maryland Drivers Could Get $500 Fine for Using Cell
Politics

Maryland Drivers Could Get $500 Fine for Using Cell

ANNAPOLIS ROUNDUP ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — Maryland legislation that expands the state’s medical cannabis industry to include more minority ownership on Thursday passed in the House of Delegates — where it had failed in the waning […]

Disposing of Debris After this Weekend’s Wind Storm
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Disposing of Debris After this Weekend’s Wind Storm

Curbside yard trim collection will resume next Monday, March 12, three weeks ahead of schedule, to accommodate residents impacted by this past weekend’s wind storm. Please remember, yard trim items should be placed in paper […]