20070905 Harford County News Briefs

Harford County, Maryland News Briefs

September 5^th, 2007

Bill vetoed to increase fines for false alarms

5 days ago - Harford County Executive David Craig halted plans to increase fines for false fire alarms tenfold this week, saying he felt the higher penalties were too punitive.

County SAT scores drop

6 days ago - Harford County high school students’ SAT scores dropped this year in reading, math and writing, according to test results released this week.

Farmland-preservation plans would save 1,500 acres

12 days ago - About 1,500 acres in Harford would be preserved as farmland under a proposed $19 million expansion of the county’s farmland-preservation program.

Police ID body found in motel room

14 days ago - Police in Harford County on Tuesday identified the body found Saturday in a motel room outside Aberdeen as 26-year-old Robert Donte Hemphill.

Harford detention center set to expand

14 days ago - The Harford County Detention Center is set to begin a $29 million expansion to ease overcrowding.

Body found in Route 40 motel

16 days ago - Harford County suffered its second homicide in two weeks and its third for the year with the discovery of an unidentified man’s corpse Saturday night in the Keyser Motel just outside Aberdeen.

Shelter's progress draws support

18 days ago - Harford’s Humane Society insists conditions and care for animals have improved at its Fallston shelter after complaints of sick and dying animals there.

Ban sludge spreading in park, county lawmakers tell state

19 days ago - Harford County lawmakers are demanding the state stop allowing sewage sludge to be spread at Susquehanna State Park so residents can use the area again.

Animal hoarder to get psychiatric evaluation

20 days ago - Donna Bell couldn’t turn away desperate animals.

Five Harford schools fail federal tests

20 days ago - Four of nine Harford County middle schools and one of 32 elementary schools failed to meet federal reading and math goals this year, according to state data released Wednesday.