Carrollton

Mount St. Joseph High School seniors build memorial overlook at Baltimore National Cemetery

2013-05-21 03:00:00

Catonsville residents who walk or bike the Short Line Trail will now be able to stop for a moment of reverence at a new park overlooking Baltimore National Cemetery. The 2.2.-mile trail skirts the cemetery on its way past the Charlestown Retirement...

MARC to add weekend service to Washington

2013-05-16 16:55:00

Maryland's MARC commuter trains, which have always operated Monday through Friday, will begin offering weekend service between Baltimore and Washington on the Penn Line in coming months. The expansion — put on hold in 2008 when the recession hit...

Police investigating E. Baltimore homicide; arrest 2 suspects in past murder

2013-05-02 06:48:00

Baltimore police are investigating the shooting death of a man in East Baltimore early Thursday. Responding to a shooting in the 600 block of Cokesbury Ave. in the East Baltimore Midway neighborhood at 12:39 a.m., police said they found a man with...

Baltimore community groups sue owner of blighted properties

2013-04-30 17:20:00

Six Baltimore community groups filed an $8 million lawsuit Tuesday against a Texas man whose companies own dozens of properties in the city, alleging that he failed to improve rundown homes after purchasing them at tax sales and allowed them to become a...

Man found shot to death in Northeast Baltimore

2013-04-30 17:14:00

A man was found fatally shot in Northeast Baltimore on Tuesday evening, the city's 70th homicide this year, police said. The man was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the 1200 block of Walters Avenue in the Woodbourne Heights neighborhood about 5:30...

Parents of Bay Bank and Carrollton Bank complete merger

2013-04-22 10:35:00

Jefferson Bancorp Inc., parent of Lutherville-based Bay Bank, said Monday it had completed its acquisition of Carrollton Bancorp, the holding company of Columbia-based Carrollton Bank. The $25 million stock-cash deal included the repayment of $9.1...

Arthur Machen Jr., Venable law partner

2013-04-19 15:42:00

Arthur W. Machen Jr., a retired attorney who was also the chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland and a legal advocate for the poor, died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The former Ruxton resident was 92. A well-...

Maryland presses for federal support in building two light-rail systems

2013-04-15 16:39:17

Backed by an affirming legislative session and soon to be flush with transportation money, state officials went to Washington on Monday to assure the administration that Maryland has both the means and the will to build two light rail systems. "Timing is...

Frances T. Kidder, real estate saleswoman

2013-04-12 20:07:43

Frances T. Kidder, a former real estate saleswoman, museum docent and world traveler, died Thursday from a stroke at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. She was 96. The daughter of Bayard Turnbull, a prominent Baltimore architect, and Margaret...

Man fatally shot in Baltimore early Monday morning

2013-04-08 10:19:04

With blood still streaked on the doorway of a Southwest Baltimore home where a man was shot earlier in the morning, a woman who rented a room there nonchalantly recalled hearing the four shots. "After the first shot, I screamed and dropped to my knees...

Ex-track star from Laurel hurdles into hall of fame

2013-03-26 07:29:00

In the summer before she entered Laurel High as a freshman, Angie Vaughn took part in a major youth track and field meet in California in 1990. Before she left Maryland, her father told her if she won her event in the 100-meter dash he would buy her a...

New Laurel KinderMender designed intentionally for fun

2013-03-18 14:45:00

From its name to a play area filled with children's books, games and other toys, Route 1's KinderMender, looks more like a day-care center instead of a pediatric medical facility. KinderMender's play area has a white picket fence, flat-screen television...

Sandra Jones, right, uses a lift to raise her son, Chase, out of his wheelchair for his daily stretching exercises at their Carrollton, Ga., home.

2013-05-22 03:04:00

A three-alarm fire ripped through an apartment complex in New Carrollton.

2012-11-26 19:36:00

Beverly Hammack shows off some of her quilts hanging at the Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum in downtown Carrollton, Georgia on November 16, 2012.

2012-11-16 00:00:00