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October 31, 2018

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Spending in Howard County executive race eclipses $1 million

Tuesday, Oct 30

Allan Kittleman, Howard's Republican incumbent county executive, has $94,000 more in cash than his Democratic opponent, Calvin Ball, according to new campaign finance reports.

Pedestrian killed on Dorsey Road in Elkridge in Howard County

Howard County police are investigating a fatal crash in Elkridge involving a pedestrian Tuesday night.

Coach DJ Durkin reinstated at Maryland, expected to be back on sideline against Michigan State

Maryland football coach DJ Durkin met with his staff and players before Tuesday’s practice, which was scheduled around the same time the University System of Maryland's Board of Regents held a news conference in Baltimore to announce its recommendation to reinstate the 40-year-old coach.

'One of us feels it, we all feel it': 1,400-plus attend vigil in Columbia after Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Howard County residents gathered at Beth Shalom Congregation in Columbia on Monday evening for a vigil to remember those lost in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh.

Sponsor withdraws bill that would have revived plans for Columbia gas station

Opponents of a bill before the Howard County Council that would allow a Royal Farms convenience store with gas pumps claim the company getting special treatment.

At Columbia after-school program, kids get a lesson in healthy eating

Trying new foods and gaining knowledge on how to eat healthy is something that the children of the Section 8 Roslyn Rise and Rideout Heath housing communities are learning through an after-school program called Taste and Move.

Flavors and cultures merge at Common Kitchen, Howard County's first food hall

At Clarksville Commons, works and shoppers have new options to sate their hunger: the stalls of the the Common Kitchen, Howard County’s first and only food hall.

Retro: When Howard County voters elected their first county executive

An election where 75 percent of the electorate turns out? That’s almost unheard of these days. But 50 years ago, three-quarters of the county’s registered voters took sides on whether Howard should adopt charter government and have a county executive and council.