Harford County

Police arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with a triple stabbing in Edgewood that left a 15-year-old girl dead.

COLLEGE PARK - For the third time in four years, the Perryville girls volleyball team will play for the Maryland Class 1A State Championship.

For 100 minutes Friday night, girls from Fallston and Hereford could not settle their Class 2A girls soccer state semifinal game at Bel Air.

The Havre de Grace boys soccer team was trying to get the proverbial monkey off its back Friday evening when the Warriors took the field at Northeast-Anne Arundel in Pasadena for their fourth straight Maryland State Class 1A Semifinal.

By a 4-3 vote Thursday morning, the Harford County Board of Estimates approved the $1 million purchase of three adjoining waterfront lots in Havre de Grace to be used as a park.

Republican Barry Glassman took a quick and commanding lead in his bid to become Harford County's next county executive as early general election returns began to trickle in Tuesday. By 9:30 p.m., he declared victory.

General Election Day dawned sunny and unseasonably warm Tuesday, as the majority of the 164,000-plus registered voters in Harford County had a final opportunity to be heard on the selection of a county executive, county council and sheriff, among local and state offices.

In Tuesday's general election, Harford County voters will pick a new county executive, a county council president and a county council that will have at least two new faces, as well as six school board members.

Fallston's bid for a 15th state field hockey title is alive after the Cougars beat the Pocomoke Warriors, 2-1, in overtime Monday night in a Class 1A state semifinal at Broadneck High School in Annapolis.

Three Democratic candidates have challenged the three sitting Republican legislators in a bid for their District 7 Maryland House of Delegates seats, accusing the incumbents of creating gridlock in Annapolis similar to the ongoing partisan gridlock among Democrats and Republicans in Congress.

Republican state Sen. J.B. Jennings, of Joppa, who has spent more than a decade in the Maryland General Assembly, is being challenged for his Senate seat by Democrat Kim Letke, also of Joppa, a former police officer who is a government contractor.

Harford County's top police official would like to move as quickly as the current school year to have cameras placed on the exterior of all public school buses in an effort to catch and fine drivers who don't stop when a bus stops to pick up or discharge students.

Two men have been charged with stealing more than five miles of copper wire off of utility poles in northern Harford County and selling it for scrap.

Mike Hiob, a former city councilman and unsuccessful mayoral candidate, came to a recent city council meeting just to call out Aberdeen Mayor Mike Bennett.

An argument Tuesday night over a bill that would have changed Harford County's community input meetings highlighted the challenges of making the county's development process more user-friendly.

While Mike Simon acknowledges he does not have the education credentials of Nancy Reynolds, his opponent for the District D seat on the Harford County Board of Education, he still considers himself a worthy candidate.

C. Milton Wright and Havre de Grace won regional titles in boys soccer Tuesday. Fallston wasn't so fortunate.

Havre de Grace senior Jordan Hawthorne delivered all the treats Friday night to lead the Warriors past visiting Patterson Mill, 36-7, in an UCBAC Chesapeake Division game.

C. Milton Wright junior David Bishop put his team into the region championship with an overtime goal Friday to lift the Mustangs past host Bel Air, 2-1, in the Class 3A North Section II final.

Four Harford runners captured age-group wins Sunday in the race within the Race for the Cure in Hunt Valley.

Harford County's three golfers who qualified for the 2014 state championship played their second and final rounds Wednesday at the University of Maryland Golf Course in College Park.