Aberdeen

Aldi Supermarket will hold a hiring event Friday in Aberdeen in preparation for the opening of its new store later this year. The hiring event will be held from 6 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Express, 1007 Beards Hill Road in Aberdeen. Aldi is looking to fill positions such as cashier, shift manager and manager trainee, the company said in a media advisory for the event. Pay rates quoted in the advisory are $12 hourly for cashier, $16.25 hourly for shift manager and $25 per hour for manager trainee.

A third person has been arrested in connection with a November armed robbery in Aberdeen. Jerrard Christopher Wilmore, 21, who has addresses in the first block of Church Green Avenue in Aberdeen and the first block of Collins Drive in Perryville, was arrested Thursday. He is charged in the Nov. 12 robbery of Northside Liquors, in the 200 block of North Philadelphia Boulevard, with armed robbery, robbery, first- and second-degree assault, use of a handgun in commission of a felony and theft less than $1,000.

Two people died as a result of a diving accident at Aberdeen Proving Ground on Tuesday afternoon, the Army confirmed. The deaths were said to be two Navy divers who were working in the installation's Underwater Explosion Test Facility, also known as the "super pond," where a civilian diver employed by the Army died in an accident on Jan. 30, several Harford County emergency response sources said. One source said the divers were in cardiac arrest when they surfaced and had been working in the pond on air hoses, not self-contained breathing units, and were tethered to each other.

Two Navy divers died in the Super Pond at Aberdeen Proving Ground on Tuesday, less than a month after the death of another diver at the same location. Officials at the Army base in Harford County released few details late Tuesday about the incident, which occurred about 2:30 p.m. at the Unexploded Ordnance Range pond. The man-made body of water is also known as the Super Pond. A Navy spokesman said the families of the sailors had been notified, but officials were withholding their names for 24 hours in accordance with Navy policy.

It doesn't really come as much of a shock that a small amount of radioactive material turned up in a salvage yard on Aberdeen Proving Ground. The post, after all, was established at a time when scientific research into radiation was in its infancy and nuclear energy was the stuff of a relatively new genre of literature, science fiction. Beyond that, APG, being a proving ground, was, and remains, a place where a fair amount of experimentation on the latest findings of science is done.

Aberdeen Stacey Marie England, 22, of the 200 block of Mayberry Drive, was arrested Saturday on a warrant for failing to appear for court in a case in which she is charged with speeding and speeding in a work zone, failure to display her license on demand, two counts of driving while her license was suspended and holding and talking on a cell phone while driving. Christopher Tolley, 19, of the 500 block of South Parke Street, was arrested Monday on a district court bench warrant in a case in which he is charged with two counts of second-degree assault.

No. 2 Aberdeen won its second straight Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference girls basketball championship Wednesday night in a rout, beating Edgewood, 62-23, at C.Milton Wright. Despite the lopsided final score, the Eagles (20-3) struggled early, missing free throws (3-for-9 in the first quarter and 5-for-21 in the first half) and layups. The Eagles' early problems enabled the undersized Rams to hang tough early. Edgewood (16-7) trailed 11-10 after one quarter, but Aberdeen freshman Stephanie Jones (23 points)

The Susquehanna Workforce Network will be hosting a defense, technology and intelligence job fair at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen Feb. 28, from 2 to 6 p.m. This is a major workforce recruitment activity for more than 30 companies looking to fill positions. A sample listing of the position openings include acquisition professionals, software and systems engineer, program analyst, product manager, bio-medical scientist, liaison officer, configuration managers, system integrator, software developer, multi-media assistants, project manager, proposal manager, acquisition analyst, electrical and mechanical engineers, business development, SharePoint developer, signal support, air traffic controller, Java developer, scientists and technical writer.

An Aberdeen man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for the 2011 stabbing death of a teenager, the Harford County state's attorney said. Terrance Darreyll Wanzer, 22, was sentenced in Harford County Circuit Court in Bel Air for the murder of Thomas Burdsall Jr., 16, also of Aberdeen. A jury found Wanzer guilty of first-degree murder on Nov. 28. According to a media release from Cassilly's office, before imposing the life sentence, Harford Circuit Judge Angela Eaves listened to the emotional statements of the victim's mother, Jennifer Burdsall, as she described the impact of her son's murder on and her and her family..

The Aberdeen boys basketball team forfeited 11 wins after learning it had been playing with an ineligible player this season. Harford County supervisor of athletics Ken Zorbach said the school did its own investigation and reported the findings to his office on Monday, along with notifying the other schools who were involved in the games and the Class 3A East regional chairperson in the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association....