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October 4, 2018

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Group in downtown Bel Air protests Kavanaugh nomination

Thursday, Oct 4

An estimated 40 to 50 people gathered at the intersection of Main Street and Churchville Road in downtown Bel Air Wednesday to protest the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Harford County Council votes to deny proposed Joppa pyrolysis plant

The Harford County Council, sitting as the Board of Appeals, upheld a zoning hearing examiner's conclusion that a proposed pyrolysis plant does not meet the zoning requirements for its proposed location in Joppa and thus cannot be built there.

More traffic in already busy area major concern for residents near former Auto Auction site

More than 100 people packed a meeting room at the Abingdon Library Tuesday night, concerned about traffic a residential and commercial development on the former Auto Auction site could generate.

Bel Air considering plan to realign main road serving Upper Chesapeake Medical Center campus

A realignment is coming to the main road serving the sprawling University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center campus in Bel Air.

A violent Harford County, or just bad luck of the draw? [A commentary]

Three mass shooting incidents in three years has led to the usual media driven question, what is happening in Harford County?

Buck Showalter, Dan Duquette out after Orioles' worst season in team history

Buck Showalter won't return to manage the Orioles in 2019, according to an industry source, ending what until this season had been a productive relationship with the manager who took over in August 2010 and brought playoff baseball back to Baltimore and an organization that was starved for it.

In Buck they trusted, and now Orioles fans lament his leaving

It's a rare manager to inspire tee shirts and garden gnomes, much less to arrive in town already made it in New York and on Seinfeld even. But that was Buck Showalter, and now Orioles fans are left to mourn his passing.

Virginia official apologizes for Twitter 'joke' about shooting protesters at Rep. Andy Harris' office

Goochland County (Virginia) Supervisor Manuel Alvarez Jr. apologized for his "stupid joke" on Twitter about shooting protesters who were arrested Tuesday outside the Capitol Hill office of Baltimore County Republican Rep. Andy Harris.