Halethorpe

Sister Mary Loretto Evans, a former principal of the St. Frances Academy in East Baltimore, died Oct. 3 at her order's motherhouse in Halethorpe. She was 91. Sister Mary Clarice, a member of her order, said no medical cause of death was determined. Born Atlanta Dorothy Evans in Montgomery, Ala., she entered the Roman Catholic religious order the Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1939. She then received her new name, Sister Mary Loretto. She attended the Mount Providence Junior College in Halethorpe and earned a degree in education from St. Mary's College (now the University of St. Mary)

A man who was shot by a Baltimore County police officer Wednesday and later found in a Catonsville High School parking lot has been charged and remains hospitalized. Steven David Gary, 45, of Pikesville was shot when he attempted to drive toward the officer, police said. The officer fired at least one shot. The department identified the officer only as Officer Boone, a 13-year veteran assigned to Precinct 1/Wilkens patrol. He has been placed under administrative duty, which is the department policy while police-involved shootings are investigated.

Halethorpe resident Keith Acosta earned a Bachelor of Science degree in exercise science at Salisbury University. The National Society of High School Scholars founder and chairman Claes Nobel, a senior member of the family that established the Nobel prizes, announced that Allison Felter, a student at Western School of Technology and Environmental Science, has been selected for membership. She is a graduate of Halethorpe Elementary and Arbutus Middle schools.

Mike Anson didn't let a broken ankle get in the way of his renovation project. Anson — foot cast and all — completely overhauled his bathroom, which was in need of major repair, and in the process earned recognition from This Old House magazine for showing some "moxie. " After living in his Halethorpe home for a couple of years, Anson discovered that the toilet was leaking and was beginning to sink into the floor. "When we took up the floor, we realized that the entire floor was sagging and wasn't supported.

Heavy Seas Loose Cannon, the flagship beer of Clipper City Brewing Co., hasn't stayed on shelves of stores across 18 states and Washington, D.C., for long. The thirst of beer drinkers for the India pale-ale-style beer showed no signs of diminishing this year as it made up nearly 50 percent of the brewery's sales, according to a company spokeswoman, Kelly Zimmerman. To meet the demand, the Halethorpe-based brewery stopped production of its imperial cream ale, called Davey Jones Lager, until next summer.

Dave Jones is trying to shrink the world, one crisis at a time. The former TV weatherman wants emergency managers and decision-makers to have simultaneous access to real-time information so they can keep people out of harm's way. And he wants them to be able to swap ideas whether they are standing before a big screen in a command center, hunched over a laptop in a shelter or grasping a tablet while hovering over the scene in a rescue helicopter....

Many federal workers in and around Washington make their home in the Baltimore area, so when two of them get together at a party, they immediately begin swapping commuting strategies. "Invariably, the first question that I get when I say I commute to D.C. is 'Oh, do you take the train?'" said Elaine Papp, a Federal Hill resident who works for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in southeast Washington. "When I say, 'No,' then they say, 'How do you get there?'" How to get "there" is a question thousands of Marylanders must figure out. About 101,370 federal employees in Maryland commute to Washington, according to 2010 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Among the 77 calls the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department received for medical and emergency help during the period June 17-24 were the following: 1000 Hilltop Circle, 10:37 a.m. June 23. Crews from the Arbutus volunteer station and Catonsville and Halethorpe career stations responded to a request for an emergency pumping action on the campus of theUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County, and removed 11 feet of water from a basement....

A 23 r d suspect has been charged in an indictment against the Maryland-based prison gang Dead Man Inc., according to documents recently unsealed in federal court. Kevin Bales, whose age and address are not listed in court documents, was arrested and charged in a recent superseding indictment with participating in a racketeering conspiracy including murder for hire, extortion and drug dealing. Authorities say Dead Man Inc. is an offshoot of the Black Guerilla Family gang that was formed for white inmates in Maryland prisons, and later spread into the streets and other states.

An article in the March 8, 1962, edition of the Herald Argus and Baltimore Countian reported the near completion of a new police station. The new Wilkens Police Station, which will combine the services of the Catonsville and Halethorpe police stations and the Traffic Division, is nearing completion at Wilkens and Walker avenues. Occupancy of the one-story and basement structure is anticipated about May 1 of this year. The personnel of the Catonsville and Halethorpe Districts, totaling 71 men, includes: Captain Clarence Bradley ; four lieutenants, George Neeb, Joseph Schwartz, Robert Andrews and Frederick Senkel ; 66 sergeants, corporals and patrolmen.