ELLICOTT CITY — A Howard County leader says he will veto a controversial bill declaring the county a safe place for people who are in the country illegally. Media outlets report the county council passed the bill Monday. It would ...

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WASHINGTON – Two Howard County Council members plan to push forward with legislation to declare their county a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants, even after President Donald Trump announced his intention to crack down on such jurisdictions. Fulfilling one of many ...

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WOODBINE — Maryland officials are announcing a public-private partnership to restore a stream in Howard County. County Executive Allan Kittleman will join Maryland Secretary of the Environment Ben Grumbles on Thursday to announce it. The project will restore 6,200 linear ...

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BALTIMORE — A Maryland man and a British subject have been indicted in a swatting incident in Howard County that left the victim injured after he was shot with rubber bullets by police. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a ...

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Beech’s Farm, a 135-unit apartment community in Columbia, has sold for $25.5 million. Washington-based StoneBridge Investments purchased the property from a subsidiary of McDowell Properties. The complex was built in 1985 and consists of seven two-story and three-story buildings designed ...

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FORT MEADE — Fort Meade is getting a new top enlisted soldier. Garrison officials at Fort Meade near Baltimore say in a statement that Army Command Sgt. Maj. Brian Cullen is taking over from Command Sgt. Maj. Rodwell Forbes at ...

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Tenable Network Security, the Columbia information security firm that has attracted strong venture capital support, has named Amit Yoran its chairman and CEO, effective Jan. 3. “Tenable is one of the most innovative companies in security, and is leading the ...

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ELLICOTT CITY  — A Maryland high school teacher has been disciplined after encouraging students to “have fun” writing a slave song for an assignment as part of a lesson on abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Howard County Superintendent Renee Foose tells The ...

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COLUMBIA — Howard County Police officers didn’t stop with recovering 77 packages stolen from porches when they busted two alleged thieves who had the goods in a box truck. The law enforcers delivered some of the packages stolen to the ...

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A Maryland software supply chain automation firm has added a new analytical capability to its software. Some rapid software development processes use the concept of containers, or a common set of building blocks of code. Fulton-based Sonatype Inc. says its new LifeCycle Container Analysis feature ...

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