A soldier accused of raping a woman outside of a Bel Air bar in 2009 pleaded guilty to second-degree assault this week.In exchange for the guilty plea, the state dismissed the additional eight counts of the indictment against Hazeez Oluwatoyin...
Work has begun on the upgrading of the pond at the popular Friends Park in Forest Hill.While work is in progress, both the pond and adjacent picnic area and pavilion will be off-limits to the public through the rest of the spring and all summe...
It was a Fallston Cougars sweep Tuesday night in Havre de Grace, where both the boys and the girls lacrosse teams won UCBAC lacrosse championships on the turf of James R. Harris Stadium.The Cougar boys, champions of the Chesapeake (upper) Divi...
Published May 13, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in Sports
There were two days of record-setting performances in near-perfect weather when the seventh annual UCBAC Track and Field Championships unfolded at Harford Tech Tuesday and Wednesday.In hosting its second conference meet, Tech presented an impr...
Published May 13, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in Sports
In Thursday afternoon's first round MPSSAA softball tournament action, an all-Harford County match-up in the Class 2A East region saw Bel Air advance to the quarterfinals with an 11-4 comeback victory over the Fallston.Also advancing Thursday ...
Harford County Councilwoman Mary Ann Lisanti is on a mission to move forward two capital projects that she says haven’t gotten enough respect: a feasibility study for a new Havre de Grace High School, and engineering and design of the high school’s field ...
Poor overall school performance is one reason two veteran Harford County high school principals won’t be back, people close to the school system say.And by some measures used by the state to judge a secondary school’s overall performance, the ...
A clearly conflicted Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners tentatively agreed this week there will be no raises for town employees in next year’s budget.The employees should, however, see a slight improvement in their pension contribution rates ...
Two months after a violent break-in and robbery that started in an Abingdon home, police are at a standstill in the investigation.The morning of March 11 two masked men forced their way into the home of Tina Marie Janouris, 52, in the 2600 blo...
Published May 13, 2011 by The Aegis in News, Entertainment, Arts
The first Family Arts and Fun Festival, which will benefit Harford Habitat For Humanity, will be held Saturday at the Bel Air Town Center at the corner of Routes 1 and 24.“You might remember ‘Betsey the Cow’ from that location,” Mike Blum, the...
Published May 13, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in Opinion
It was a bit baffling last year when a small ship packed with tourists made an unexpected stop in Havre de Grace and sparked the ire of several merchants in the city.Tourists, after all, have become an important part of the Havre de Grace econ...
Published May 13, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in Opinion
Aberdeen is in the unfortunate position of having to deal with tax policy decisions made by bigger government entities.As a result of the federal government being exempt from paying taxes to state and local governments dating to the earliest d...
Harford County’s policy of imposing building moratoriums in areas served by overcrowded schools is a good one, but it has plenty of holes in it.This is evidenced by the move earlier this month by the developer of Monmouth Meadows, in Abingdon,...
It’s been more than a decade since the Harford County Board of Education enacted a policy regarding medical do not resuscitate orders.For those unfamiliar, do not resuscitate orders are medical directives, in this case for students with fragil...
Published May 13, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in News, Crime
A 26-year-old Harford County man was sentenced to 25 years in prison
Thursday after he admitted to killing his 14-month-old daughter in June.Keaton Boyd Irons, of Edgewood, also will serve five years on supervised probation after pleading guilty...
Published May 16, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in News
Police are looking for a 27-year-old man accused of stabbing another man in Havre de Grace early Friday morning.Stephen Tremane Johnson is wanted for first-degree assault and reckless endangerment after he allegedly stabbed a 30-year-old man i...
Fire officials believe three small fires intentionally set within an hour of each other on Saturday may be related to at least four recent fires in the Bel Air area.In recent weeks, several fires have been set in Harford County in cars, trash ...
Bel Air’s board of town commissioners passed a $14.9 million budget for 2012 at Monday’s town meeting with no objections, although the commissioners did include 12 amendments they had worked out earlier.The budget is an increase of $481,160 fr...
Published May 16, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in Sports
The C. Milton Wright Mustangs took the initial step Monday toward a second straight state final appearance, beating visiting fifth seed Patapsco, 18-0, in the second round of the Class 3A North regional softball tournament.The victory ensured ...
The top-seeded C. Milton Wright Mustangs won the first game of their 2011 post-season on Monday afternoon, beating the visiting eighth seed Towson, 7-2, in the Class 3A North baseball tournament's quarterfinal round.Also winning and moving on ...
Wayne Dougherty was sworn in to his third term as mayor of Havre de Grace during a swearing in ceremony at Monday's city council meeting.Dougherty was one of four sworn in Monday. Re-elected councilmen Randy Craig and John Correri joined newco...
Published May 17, 2011 by The Aegis, The Record in News
Updated at 9:45 a.m. Friday, May 20.An Edgewood woman was flown to a Baltimore hospital Tuesday afternoon after a pedestrian accident in an industrial area of Aberdeen that clos...
Police are investigating a serious, multiple vehicle accident near the South Eastern School District complex in Fawn Grove, Pa. Tuesday evening that required aid from emergency personnel from Harford County.Details were still sketchy 90 minute...
Monday's suspended Class 2A-3A north region boys lacrosse semifinal between Fallston and host Bel Air was completed Tuesday, and the Bobcats pulled out a 11-10 win.The Bobcats will play for the region championship at Hereford Wednesday at 6 p....
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