Published August 18, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Crime
A Belcamp man was shot in the leg Monday after a robbery attempt in Edgewood, and the incident is under investigation.
Around 8:30 p.m. Monday, Harford County sheriff’s deputies arrived at Upper Chesapeake Hospital after hospital personnel calle...
Police and fire officials rushed to an apartment in Belcamp Monday after workers in the home saw what looked like a homemade bomb.
Around 4:30 p.m., Baltimore Gas and Electric employees were installing new thermostats in a leased apartment in th...
Published August 18, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Crime
Police have not identified any suspects in Harford County’s most recent murder, and the man they believe is responsible for another shooting death in Bel Air last month remains at large.
Deborah Elaine Burgess, 52, was found dead inside her home...
The following alphabetical list represents the 33 founding fathers of the Historical Society of Harford County in 1885.
According to genealogist and local historian Henry Peden, while not all shared equal prominence in the society's formation, t...
A Bel Air man was flown to shock trauma last week after an accident on his bicycle, and he is facing charges of driving under the influence in connection with the accident.
Matthew Vincent Parker, 33, of the 700 block of Linwood Avenue, was leav...
Through Monday’s round of National Division pool-play games at the Ripken World Series, it was the hard-hitting Ohio Valley squad from Lexington, Ky., that led the tournament’s National Division with a perfect 3-0 record.
The Southeast squad fro...
Published August 18, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Politics
As he pursues a second term this year, Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane has a target on his back.
A Democrat, Bane was elected in 2006, winning comfortably in a county where voters haven’t taken kindly to voting for Democrats in the past 20 yea...
Published August 18, 2010 by The Aegis, The Record in Sports
After three days of play in the International Division of the 2010 Cal Ripken 12U Major/70 World Series, the national teams from Japan and Mexico were headed for a showdown...
Published August 18, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Politics
For the first time in Harford County history, the Republican Party has surpassed the Democratic Party in terms of local voter registration.
As of Tuesday morning, registered Republicans outnumbered Democrats in Harford County by 28.
Kim W...
Published August 18, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Crime
Four reports of men exposing themselves in the Emmorton and Edgewood areas within several months share certain similarities, but police have not identified the incidents as a trend or the work of a single person.
In three of the four instances s...
Published August 18, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Education
The new Edgewood High School is officially here, and students, their parents and the community couldn’t be happier.
Saturday’s self-directed tour, which saw at least 500 people wander through the new building’s three floors, turned heads of many...
Charles County, of southern Maryland, and Norwalk, Conn., will represent the American Division in today’s (Friday) 2010 Cal Ripken 12U Major/70 World Series U.S. semifinals.
Each claimed the one and two spots respectively with wins Tuesday and W...
Luke Belford and Pamela Halligan built big leads in winning the fourth annual Rite Aid 5K in Perryman Sunday.
Each won by about a minute, with Belford taking the men’s race in 15:03, and Halligan, the women’s in 18:49. The distance was about 0.1...
The Aberdeen IronBirds did Wednesday night what they’ve done many times this season.
With runners on the corners, one man down and the score tied 6-6 in the bottom of the ninth Wednesday night, Aberdeen’s Adam Gaylord lofted a fly ball to center...
With runners on the corners, one man down and the score tied 6-6 in the bottom of the ninth on Wednesday night, Aberdeen’s Adam Gaylord lofted a fly ball to center that allowed teammate Sammie Starr to tag up and score the game-winning run in the IronB...
The field is set for today’s (Friday) 2010 Cal Ripken 12U Major/70 World Series United States and International semifinals.
The field was finalized after Wednesday’s pool play was completed in each of three divisions, the American, National and ...
The International Division of the 2010 Cal Ripken 12U Major/70 World Series wrapped up its pool play Wednesday, determining which four teams would move on to today’s (Friday) International Semifinals.
Japan (5-0) is top seed, having edged Mexico...
The undefeated front-runners of the Ripken World Series’ National Division met on Wednesday afternoon to decide which squad would get out of pool play with the top seed, and it was the Southeast team from Ocala, Fla., that took top honors, topping the ...
Published August 20, 2010 by The Aegis in Politics, Opinion
This week marks a milestone for the Republican Party in Harford County, as it makes official what had been the case unofficially for many years: Harford County is a Republican stronghold.
While party stalwarts on the Republican side no doubt are...
Published August 20, 2010 by The Aegis in Community, Education, Opinion
There was a wonderful story in our newspaper Wednesday about the joint 35th reunion planned this Saturday at Ripken Stadium for the 1975 classes of Joppatowne and Edgewood high schools.
As the organizers explained in interviews with our staff me...
Published August 20, 2010 by The Aegis in Education, Opinion
That 200 students will be transferring out of William Paca/Old Post Road Elementary School and Magnolia Middle School because those schools failed to meet state test standards is an important development, and one that needs to be taken seriously by sch...
Published August 20, 2010 by The Aegis in News, Community
For nearly half a century, the Fallston Club has provided summer amusement to the community.
The swim club, owned by its members and run by a board of directors, is a 19-acre spread on Route 152 in Fallston.
“A lot of people who live here...
I spent probably a dozen summers at the Fallston Club, or “the pool” as we called it in those days. And I loved every minute of it.
Reading Abrielle Willis’ story brought back a lot of memories for me.
My family joined the pool the summer...
The final two days of pool play at the Ripken World Series saw the National Division’s Southeast squad of Ocala, Fla. wrap up with a perfect 4-0 record, while the Ohio Valley team from Lexington, Ky. finished second in the standings with a 3-1 mark....
Published August 20, 2010 by The Aegis in Sports, Opinion
Normally, this is right when I would use an entire column to rant about how I hate seeing young pitchers throwing breaking balls, and how the Cal Ripken World Series is full of talented, youthful hurlers who were wasting their time tossing sliders, cur...
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