Crownsville

Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka of Crownsville won the top prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for designing a new method to detect pancreatic cancer, Intel announced Friday. The fair, held in Pittsburgh, is the world's largest high school science research competition. Jack will receive $75,000 for first place. Jack used diabetic test paper to create a dip-stick sensor to test blood or urine for early-stage pancreatic cancer. It was deemed 90 percent accurate, and is 28 times faster and cheaper and over 100 times more sensitive than tests used now. The senior has a patent pending.

On a sunny afternoon last week, a family could be seen walking inside Hope House Laurel, while two groups of people of varying ages sat in chairs in the shade on the side of the building talking amicably. This private substance abuse treatment center in Laurel's downtown Historic District, formerly known as Reality Inc., was closed for nearly a year, following a drawn out and very public clash between the facility's board and many of its employees over how the center was being managed.

A single-car accident Tuesday in Crownsville has claimed the life of a 22-year-old woman. Jennifer Nichole Tedore of the 400 block Serpentine Trail in Crownsville was pronounced dead at the scene on Herald Harbor and Prescott roads. She had been driving a 2003 Toyota RAV-4, when she struck a tree at about 12:30 p.m., police said. Witnesses told police the car was speeding southbound on Herald Harbor Road, when it slid sideways near the curve at Prescott Road and crossed the double yellow lines.

When the state Department of Housing and Community Development's 380 employees pack up and move from Crownsville to New Carrollton in 2015, fewer women will work out on their lunch break at Curves. It also may mean fewer people getting their cars repaired, having their dry cleaning done or picking up lunch at local businesses along Generals Highway. "It's going to hurt our local economy," said Jodi Kubisiak, manager of Curves, less than a mile from the housing department's office.

An accused Crownsville burglar returned to the scene of the crime Thursday to apologize to his victim and was arrested, Anne Arundel County police said Friday. Officers responded to a call for a burglary in progress in the 500 block of Saw Mill Lane in Crownsville around 3 p.m. The homeowner told police that as she was arriving home, she saw two men leaving with items from the house, but once they saw her, they dropped many of the items and ran away, police said. The homeowner told police that she recognized one of the burglars as Philip Fox, 20, but said she did not know the other burglar.

Lance in hand, she leans forward on a galloping horse, her eyes focused as she spears hanging rings. She captures the small white circles, and a crowd in the stands applauds. Jackie "Maid of Cranwood" Rosenthal is last year's amateur-class state champion in the Maryland Jousting Tournament Association. She will defend the title Saturday, Oct. 2, when the tournament comes to the Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds in Crownsville during the weekend fall craft festival. Rosenthal, a rental property manager from Green Spring Valley, is one of a small number of Marylanders devoted to the official state sport.

A man was shot at a party in Crownsville early Saturday, but details on the incident remain sketchy, Anne Arundel County Police said. Officers went to the Anne Arundel Medical Center emergency room around 3:15 a.m. Saturday to meet the victim and his female friend, both 20, police said. They told police they were at a party at the Summerhill Trailer Park and went outside. There, they heard a loud bang, and quickly left the party along with everyone else, police said. The man told police he realized he had been shot when his back started hurting on the way home.

Authorites have arrested a 21-year-old Severna Park man accused of stabbing three people during a home invasion in Crownsville. Michael Joseph May of the 200 block of North Drive was detained about 10 p.m. Monday night at the intersection of Patapsco Avenue and 4th Street in Baltimore. He was arrested without incident and is being held without bail at the Jennifer Road Detention Center, charged with attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery and assault. According to police, two men forced their way into a mobile home early Sunday morning in the area of Summer Hill Trailer Park.

Mental health professionals, advocates and Anne Arundel County residents had a strong message for the state Wednesday night: "Don't close Crownsville!"During a 90-minute hearing in Annapolis attended by about 65 people, 12 of the 15 who testified opposed closing the psychiatric hospital on sprawling grounds in central Anne Arundel County."I am here to testify that Crownsville works," said Micheal Blain, a former patient who now works there. "Crownsville Hospital Center is a special place serving the unique needs of a diverse community."

Rita J. Fowler has been appointed postmaster of Crownsville. She will manage mail operations for 12,000 postal customers.Fowler beganher career in 1975 as a clerk-postmaster relief in Barley, W.Va., and later became a distribution-window clerk in Grundy, Va.In 1977 she was selected as Equal Employment Opportunity counselor at the Charleston, W.Va., post office and then was promoted to EEO investigator at the Eastern Regional Office in Philadelphia.In 1986, she became EEO counselor-investigator at the main post office in Baltimore.

Maryland officials approved Wednesday a much-debated plan to move the headquarters of the state's housing agency — along with 380 jobs — from Anne Arundel County to Prince George's County. The three-member Board of Public Works voted unanimously to vacate the Department of Housing and Community Development's state-owned building in Crownsville. The department will move to leased space in a new, transit-oriented development at New Carrollton, a hub for MARC and Amtrak as well as the Washington Metro.

The state Board of Public Works is expected to vote today on a contract that would clear the way for the Department of Housing and Community Development to move from its park-like campus in Crownsville to a transit hub in Prince George's County. The board's members - Gov. Martin O'Malley, Comptroller Peter Franchot and Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp - are expected to hear from both supporters and opponents of the hotly debated move to New Carrollton. A spokesman for Franchot, Andrew Friedson, said the comptroller was reviewing the deal overnight and anticipates asking questions.

Sailing Greenwald finishes first at NOOD Regatta Overcoming a field of 49 boats in the J/70 class, Bennet Greenwald of San Diego took first place aboard the Perseverance in the highly competitive division and was named overall winner at the Sperry Top-Sider NOOD Regatta in Annapolis on Sunday. The honor distinguishes Greenwald and his crew — Jeff Madrigali , Steven Pickel and Morgane Renoir — as the top performers throughout the three-day race, which featured 15 boat classes and more than 1,000 sailors.

Two Annapolis sailors, Jeff Borland and Tim Williams, took advantage of favorable winds on their home Chesapeake Bay waters to take the lead in their classes Saturday at the Sperry Top-Sider NOOD Regatta. Borland leads the nine-boat Etchells class aboard Make Mine a Double with 13 points through two days of the three-day event. Williams has four wins in six races aboard LinGin in the Alberg 30 class. Race officials will determine the regatta's overall winner today, based on the strongest finish in the most competitive class.

Sailing Elliot leads J/70 class at NOOD in Annapolis Brian Elliot of Sayville, N.Y., sailed B Squared to the lead in the 49-boat J/70 class after four races on the first day of the three-day Sperry Top-Sider NOOD (National Offshore One Design) Regatta stop in Annapolis on a breezy Friday. Elliott has 19 points. Willy Comerford of Annapolis, sailing Northerly, is second with 22. Competition in the 15-class event continues 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

A motorcycle driver was killed and a passenger suffered life-threatening injuries on Sunday evening in a crash on Veterans Highway at Benfield Boulevard in Millersville, Anne Arundel County Police said on Monday. In a statement, police said that at approximately 9:09 p.m., on Sunday, officers from the Eastern District responded to a serious motorcycle crash. Police said that its preliminary investigation revealed that a 2008 Harley-Davidson motorcycle with two riders crashed after striking a cement median on southbound Veterans Highway.

Lost in the debate over whether to close Crownsville Hospital Center or one of the other two state mental institutions in Central Maryland is the fate of the people these facilities are intended to serve -- the severely mentally ill.At a hearing last month in Annapolis, the clear sentiment was to keep Crownsville open. Some residents fear that if the hospital is closed, bureaucrats will find other less desirable uses for the property.Crownsville is also a large employer, so workers are concerned about their jobs.

Two hundred million dollars has been diverted from Maryland state employees' pension funds in 2013. The government's deception is abominable. House Republicans are offering three pension reform proposals, and I encourage everyone to call their delegates to get them on board behind the Prudent Pension Management Act, the State Employee Pension Choice Act and the Fairness in Pension Government Act. Gini Spicer, Crownsville Text NEWS to...

It's close to Interstate 97, just down the road from Lures Bar and Grille and 10 minutes from the heavy traffic of Annapolis. Yet as you set foot onto Anne Arundel County's most recent environmental management enterprise, you'd swear you had entered the most remote regions of the Blue Ridge mountains. A barely used path twines through growths of wild blackberry and Virginia creeper, follows a plunging ravine past dogwoods and poplars, and disappears near a cedar tree whose bark has been stripped near the roots, a telltale sign that a buck has made his way through.