Aberdeen’s Mayor and City Council approved final arrangements Monday for the upcoming city election.
Mayor Michael Bennett introduced a resolution to keep the polls at the Aberdeen Senior Activity Center open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Da...
A Marine sergeant with ties to Harford County and southern York County, Pa., was killed in Afghanistan Monday, during a time of continued high U.S. casualties in that country.
Sgt. Michael Wayne Heede Jr., 22, died while supporting combat operat...
Published July 17, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Crime
A Georgia soldier accused of raping a girl he met at a Bel Air bar was released on bail last week.
Hazeez Oluwatoyin Olajuwon, 34, of the 5500 block of Bluegrass Drive in Atlanta, Ga., was indicted June 8 in Harford County Circuit Court on charg...
Published July 17, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Crime
An Aberdeen man was indicted last month on charges of possessing child pornography.
Keith Edward Taylor, 24, of the 400 block of Holly Drive, was indicted June 3 on seven counts of using a computer to view child pornography and possession of chi...
Published July 17, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Crime
Convicted rapist Glenn Raynor will be sentenced Sept. 2 in Harford County Circuit Court.
Raynor, 40, of the 300 block of Ponfield Road East in Forest Hill’s Tuchahoe Farms neighborhood, faces three life sentences on the first-degree rape and sex...
Brandon Chase of the Joppatowne Track Club ran the 400-meters in 50.24 seconds and the 800 in 2:04.79 to claim a double victory of the intermediate division of the AAU Region 3 track and field meet in Catoctin July 2-4.
Chase was one of seven do...
DeChalet Salon & Hair Enhancement Center, a family-owned business, is open in Harbor Shops at 1031 Pulaski Highway in Havre de Grace.
DeChalet Salon & Hair Enhancement Center got its early start in military towns across the United States...
Would you like to see the Harford County sheriff kiss a pig?
What about a county council member, Aberdeen’s chief of police, Havre de Grace’s mayor or any one of eight other locally selected community leaders?
If you do, then donate money...
Harford County Public Library’s Board of Trustees voted Thursday to start charging for meeting room rentals, as well as raise fines for overdue items and fees for copies and printing.
Senior citizens will also no longer get fine waivers and out-...
A couple months after resolving a heated conflict with the Harford County Council over the site of a new elementary school, the Harford County Board of Education will decide in August whether to rebuild one of its existing elementary schools.
At...
The Harford County Equestrian Center is quiet and fairly empty, but soon it will be filled with animals, entertainers and residents from around the area eager to again take part in the Harford County Farm Fair.
The big event will run from 10 a.m...
No segment of Harford County’s economy has been hurt by the current recession like home building, arguably our biggest local industry.
But if there’s a silver lining to the prolonged building slump, it shows up in the county government’s latest ...
Published July 17, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Crime
A Baltimore man believed to be a member of the Bloods street gang was arrested in Harford County on drug charges last Friday and remains jailed at the Harford County Detention Center.
At the bail hearing for the man, Roland Henry Jr., the prosec...
Published July 20, 2009 by The Aegis, The Record in News
Morita Bruce of Fallston would like the Harford County Council to keep four issues in mind while it makes recommendations for the 2008-09 Comprehensive Zoning Review.
"Harford has too much business and commercial zoning and we don't need mo...
Published July 20, 2009 by The Aegis, The Record in News, Community
Harford County Hazmat Chief Larry Mabe, was recently honored by the International Association of Fire Chiefs at their annual Hazmat conference.
Mabe, deputy chief of the Harford County Emergency Operations Center in Hickory, was one of five peop...
Published July 20, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Community, Obituaries
Funeral services for Sgt. Michael Wayne Heede Jr., a Marine with ties to Harford County and southern York County, Pa., who was killed in Afghanistan on July 13, will be Aug. 18 at Arlington National Cemetery.
Sgt. Heede, 22, died while supportin...
The Bel Air Police Department is looking for a few good kids.
Each year the town police department organizes an Explorer Youth Camp to give those in fifth through ninth grade the opportunity to spend a week learning about police procedures and p...
Published July 22, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Crime
An Edgewood youth was arrested and charged July 8 in connection with a series of thefts from vehicles in the Abingdon area.
Around 2 a.m. on July 8, a man in the 3800 block of Baker Avenue saw three people going through his white van and another...
Falling Branch Road will be closed from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, to through traffic starting on or about Aug. 3. The temporary road closure will remain in effect for about a week to allow for roadway embankment stabilization work to ...
Where were you when a man first walked on the moon?
Tom Leech, of Bel Air, was sitting inside the Baltimore rowhome where he grew up watching the historic landing on a small black-and-white TV.
“God, I remember we stayed up all night watc...
Most Harford County government agencies will be closed Friday for the first of five mandated furlough days, as the county tries to save money.
The closings will include services such as permits and licenses and the offices where people pay their...
Published July 22, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Crime
Two Bel Air youths were arrested and charged in connection with a breaking and entering at Stalefish Board Co. in Bel Air July 10.
Around 3:30 a.m., the juveniles allegedly threw a rock through the window of the shop in the 100 block of North Bo...
After being bumped last year because of a major reconstruction project at Bynum Pond in Bel Air, the Kids Fishing Festival is back this year.
Planned for Saturday, July 25, at Bynum Pond, on Route 22, the event is expected to begin at 9 a.m. and...
Published July 22, 2009 by The Aegis in News, Crime
Summer vacation was interrupted at Joppatowne Elementary July 14 when a group of juveniles broke into the school and set off a fire extinguisher.
Around 5:30 p.m., an alarm went off at the school, according to Monica Worrell, public information ...
Havre de Grace had an unexpected aquatic visitor over the weekend, and officials have confirmed that the swimming creature is a manatee.
The manatee, a creature native to the waters of Florida, was seen swimming in the area of Tidewater Marina o...
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