NEWS
September 20, 2002
A four-alarm fire early yesterday destroyed a vacant apartment building in Edgewood, part of an abandoned complex of buildings recently turned over to Harford County by Aberdeen Proving Ground, state fire officials said. No one was injured in the fire, which occurred at 3:50 a.m. in the 6500 block of Hawthorne Drive, but it took 100 volunteer firefighters two hours to control the blaze, said W. Faron Taylor, deputy state fire marshal. The first firefighters on the scene had to find alternate water supplies after finding the hydrant system for the complex had been disabled, he said.
NEWS
By Richard Irwin and Richard Irwin,SUN STAFF | November 13, 2000
Scores of residents, many of them elderly, were forced from an apartment building in Northwest Baltimore last night after a three-alarm fire broke out in a first-floor beauty salon. No serious injuries were reported. Fire Inspector Michael Maybin, a Fire Department spokesman, said the fire broke out about 11 p.m. in Marlene & Co. Hair & Nail Salon in the Imperial Condominiums in the 3600 block of Clarks Lane and sent smoke throughout much of the 10-story building, which has at least 60 units.
NEWS
By Dana Hedgpeth and Dana Hedgpeth,SUN STAFF | August 26, 1998
A Baltimore man was sentenced to 18 months in jail yesterday for breaking into the storage area of an Ellicott City apartment building through the drywall of the ceiling.Carl Daniel Forte, 32, is serving a sentence in Baltimore County for burglary and was linked by police there to more than 10 burglaries in November in which entry was gained through the ceiling.At Town & Country Greensview/West on Town and Country Boulevard, Forte and Gary Pernell Byrd, 33, pried open access panels in hallways, then crawled over the apartments before punching their way through ceilings.
NEWS
December 11, 1996
A 33-year-old Columbia man was robbed outside his apartment in Harper's Choice village Monday night, Howard County police said yesterday.Sanford W. Salley Jr. was approached from behind by three men on the sidewalk outside his apartment building, Sgt. Steven Keller, a police spokesman said.One of the men put a black long-barrel revolver to Salley's head and demanded his money, a police report said. A second man took Salley's wallet, police said, and all three fled on foot.Salley was not injured in the incident.
NEWS
By Jamie Stiehm and Jamie Stiehm,SUN STAFF | September 4, 2001
Developers plan to build an upscale apartment building next to the PaperMoon diner in Remington, where the diner's owner once hoped to put a restaurant. Although the Remington Neighborhood Alliance board is opposed, some residents are supportive of the proposal, which would require City Council approval to rezone the land. PaperMoon owner Un Kim abandoned plans for a restaurant after community fears it would become a nightclub. The acre is under contract to developers Sandy Marenberg of Baltimore and Earl Armiger of Howard County.
NEWS
By Tanya Jones and Tanya Jones,Sun Staff Writer | March 17, 1995
A failing septic system at an apartment building near Aberdeen, described as a "very serious health risk," has been allowed to go unrepaired for more than two years, despite residents' and neighbors' complaints to the county health department."