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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 […]