Police: Toilet with phone and note not dangerous
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 7, 2011
Tags: Baltimore County, baltimore county executive building, cell phone, county executive, lt. robert mccullough, police, radio, toilet
TOWSON — Baltimore County police say a toilet found outside a county building with a cell phone and several notes attached to it is not dangerous. Police spokesman Lt. Robert McCullough says investigators have a lead on a possible suspect, but he declined to provide details. McCullough says the toilet decorated with a collage of [...]
Seoul Plaza at Security Square Mall put up for sale
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: November 19, 2010
Tags: commercial real estate, Retail, Security Square Mall, Seoul Plaza
The owners of Seoul Plaza have placed the 160,000-square-foot Korean marketplace at Security Square Mall up for sale, citing high vacancy rates and a downturn in business. The plaza, located in a former J.C. Penney anchor store, opened in 2003 and contained a Grand Mart grocery on the first floor and several smaller shops, like [...]
Dock of the Bay restaurant faces $5K fine for live music, karaoke
BY: Danny Jacobs
POSTED: November 10, 2010
Tags: Baltimore County, bay, circuit court, contempt of court, dock, dock of the bay, fine, karaoke, millers island, music, restaurant, speakers
A Millers Island restaurant must remove from its premises a speaker system that amplifies live music and karaoke or face a $5,000 fine, a Baltimore County Circuit Court judge ordered Wednesday. Dock of the Bay was found last month to be in contempt of a court order forbidding it from playing live music or karaoke, [...]
Baltimore County school custodian sentenced for long-term scam
BY: Danny Jacobs
POSTED: November 10, 2010
Tags: baltimore county public schools, credit card, money, stealing
Comments: 3
A former Baltimore County Public Schools custodian was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the school system over a seven-year period. Barry L. Troxell, 52, also was sentenced to five years’ probation upon his release and ordered to repay BCPS $70,650.02. He pleaded guilty last month. [...]
Republicans gain State’s Attorney positions
BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: November 3, 2010
Tags: Cecil County, st. mary's county, Wicomico County
Comments: 1
Incumbent prosecutors in six contested races had a mixed day at the polls on Tuesday, with two Democrats losing their jobs to Republicans and one race that may not be decided for weeks. The toss-up is in Worcester County. Republican challenger Beau Oglesby, who lost by a sliver in 2006, is leading by 145 votes [...]
Rare ‘no body’ murder trial begins in Baltimore County
BY: Danny Jacobs
POSTED: October 8, 2010
The trial of a Rosedale man charged in the death of his missing wife began Friday in Baltimore County Circuit Court. Dennis Tetso, 45, was indicted last year for first-degree murder in the death of Tracey Gardner-Tetso, who disappeared March 6, 2005, on her way to a Mötley Crüe concert in Washington, D.C. The trial, [...]
Lender retakes Towson Commons
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: September 21, 2010
Tags: auction, foreclosure, towson commons
Towson Commons, the 325,000-square-foot office and commercial development in the heart of Baltimore County, was auctioned Tuesday for $28.5 million on the steps of the courthouse in Towson. The auctioneer, Paul Cooper, vice president of Alex Cooper Auctioneers, declined to reveal the name of the buyer. But Joan Wallace, vice president of operations for Western [...]
Five Maryland banks miss August TARP dividend payment
BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: September 17, 2010
Tags: Banking, Cecil Bancorp, Harbor Bank, Maryland Financial BAnk, Patapsco Bank, Rising Sun Bancorp, TARP
Comments: 2
Five Maryland banks that took bailout money as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program missed the August dividend payment to the federal government. According to information gathered by SNL Financial, 115 banks in total missed the Aug. 16 dividend payment required under TARP. The five Maryland banks that missed the August payment included Cecil [...]
Most of Sparrows Point to be idled
BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: September 14, 2010
Tags: Manufacturing, severstal, Sparrows Point, steel mill
Citing poor market conditions, Sparrows Point steel mill owner OAO Severstal said Tuesday it plans to idle most of the facility through the end of the year. The Russian steelmaker, controlled by billionaire Alexei Mordashov, said it would extend the idling of its hot‐end facilities at Sparrows Point, which began July 25, through the fourth [...]
Three former Boscov’s stores to be auctioned
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: August 30, 2010
Tags: Boscov's, commercial real estate, Retail
Three Baltimore-area big box stores that used to hold Boscov’s are set to be auctioned off in mid-September. The retail chain vacated the sites, in White Marsh, Owings Mills and Marley Station, in 2008 when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Since then, the old Boscov’s stores have remained vacant, even though they serve [...]
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