Hanover

A 25-year-old motorcyclist was killed when he sped through a red light in Hanover Friday night. Gustin Samuel Page of 7500 block of Lemon Tree Court in Hanover died after his 2004 Suzuki GSX R 600 motorcycle drove through a red light, striking another driver, Anne Arundel County Police said. Page was pronounced dead at Baltimore Washington Medical Center, the other driver, Norman Walter Faber, Jr., 52, of 5600 block of Vancouver Court in Churchton, suffered non-life threatening injuries, according a police news release.

After winning the school's first-ever national championship, the Stevenson men's lacrosse team has been selected to receive the Henry Ciccarone Memorial Award by the Touchdown Club of Annapolis as the organization's Collegiate Team of the Year. "For the past 40 years or so, the Touchdown Club has chosen one college lacrosse team in Maryland to receive this award," president Justin Mullen said. "There was no debate this year as Stevenson's outstanding 2013 season that culminated in the school's first Division III national championship clearly stood out above the rest.

Engineering and manufacturing company ITT Corp. is closing an Anne Arundel County location it opened just last summer, cutting 48 jobs. The company's information-technology center in Hanover will be shut down by the end of the year as ITT splits into three separate companies and will no longer need shared IT support, spokesman B.J. Talley said Wednesday. He said 48 employees will either be laid off or will leave voluntarily with a severance package, while about 20 are being transferred to other divisions.

Police said a Hanover, Md., man died Saturday after being shot while lying on the couch at a home he was visiting in Westminster. Westminster police said Vygants Tomas Campe, 46, died after being struck by a bullet from a gun that may have discharged accidentally. Police said on March 16 at about 11:45 a.m., officers and emergency medical personnel responded to a residence in the 400 block of South Hills Court in Westminster for the report of a shooting. When they arrived they found a man, later identified as Campe, on the first floor of the home suffering from a single gunshot wound.

A Frederick man fell to his death at a new condo construction site in Hanover Tuesday morning, Anne Arundel County police said. Ismael Celestino Lopez-Rojas, 32, an employee for a subcontractor of roofing company Topper Construction, had climbed onto a roof of the three-story condo at 1475 Dorsey Road to secure a safety-anchor, when police said he apparently lost his footing, and fell off of the roof, shortly before 7 a.m. Lopez-Rojas, of...

Frank Parsons Inc., an office-supply company that moved to Hanover two years ago with plans of expansion, said Friday that it is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Its filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Maryland reported debts in the range of $10 million to $50 million, including more than $6 million in claims it is disputing. The firm, which calls itself the largest employee-owned company in the country focusing on office supplies, business products and technology equipment, estimated the value of its assets in the same $10 million to $50 million range.

Big Lots Inc. plans to open two Baltimore-area stores on Friday, the retailer announced Thursday. One store will open in Middle River, at 9977 Pulaski Highway. The other will be in Hanover, at Ridgeview Plaza on Annapolis Road. The Columbus, Ohio-based company, with more than 1,400 Big Lots stores in the United States, is the nation's biggest closeout retailer, selling discounted, brand-name merchandise such as housewares, toys and seasonal items. Lorraine.mirabella@baltsun.com Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts

ITT Corp. has chosen Hanover as the site of a new information technology facility that will create 90 jobs during the next four years and serve the company's offices worldwide, Anne Arundel County officials said Monday. The company's Information Technology Global Center of Excellence will open Aug. 1 in Arundel Mills Corporate Park. The Maryland county competed with five potential sites, including locations in New York and Colorado, and was chosen in part because of its proximity to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and an array of hotels, officials said.

A 41-year-old man died early Monday when his car struck a guard rail and caught fire in Hanover. The Anne Arundel County police department identified the deceased driver as Vernon Bryant Jr. of the 7500 block of Maiden Head Drive in Hanover. According to police, officers responded at 1:07 a.m. to a report of an accident involving a vehicle striking a guard rail on Corporate Center Drive near Old Stoney Run Way. Officers reported finding a 2011 GMC SUV on fire and severely damaged by the guard rail.

Anne Arundel County police have identified the man who was killed Monday morning when slabs of granite fell on top of him at a Hanover countertop company. Police said Stacy Carl Moody, 41, of Turbeville, S.C., a trucker for South Carolina-based McKenzie Trucking, was delivering slabs of granite to American Countertop. As he prepared to unload the slabs about 9:15 a.m., they slid from his flatbed truck, killing him, according to police. Moody was pronounced dead at the scene, and police said they believe the incident was an accident.

KEYW Holding Corp., a Hanover cybersecurity company, said Wednesday that it had $1 million in profit last year, nearly double its profit of $535,000 in 2011. The company reported $243.5 million in revenue last year, up 28 percent from $190.6 million the previous year. Earnings per share were 3 cents last year, up from 2 cents in 2011. The company said one-time expenses, including acquisition costs, reduced per-share earnings by 42 cents in 2012. KEYW, which specializes in intelligence and defense work, said it employed 1,104 people at the end of December.

A 41-year-old man died early Monday when his car struck a guard rail and caught fire in Hanover. The Anne Arundel County police department identified the deceased driver as Vernon Bryant Jr. of the 7500 block of Maiden Head Drive in Hanover. According to police, officers responded at 1:07 a.m. to a report of an accident involving a vehicle striking a guard rail on Corporate Center Drive near Old Stoney Run Way. Officers reported finding a 2011 GMC SUV on fire and severely damaged by the guard rail.

KeyW Holding Corp., a Hanover-based technology and cybersecurity firm that contracts with U.S. intelligence agencies, reported a profit increase in the third quarter that matched Wall Street analysts' expectations. The company, which delayed its earning release this week because the Nasdaq market was closed due to Superstorm Sandy, reported a $341,000 profit, or one cent per diluted share, for the quarter ending Sept. 30. Wall Street analysts had expected a one cent-per-share profit.

KEYW Holding Corp. is making good on an ambitious plan to grow, organically and through acquisitions, into a company that can respond quickly to the needs of its federal defense clients. The Hanover-based company said today it completed the acquisition of Poole & Associates Inc., of Annapolis Junction, for $126 million in cash and stock. The acquisition was announced Sept. 10. It has bought several companies since its founding in 2008, and going public in 2010. The company also is returning to the public market to raise more capital.

KEYW Holding Corp., a Hanover-based defense contractor, on Tuesday said it intends to sell 7.4 million shares at a public offering of $11.75 per share in an effort to raise money to pay down debt and to fund a recent corporate acquisition. The company raised its offering from last week, when it said it intended to sell 6.5 million shares. The publicly traded company, which counts the National Security Agency and other Department of Defense agencies as customers, said this month it intended to acquire Poole & Associates Inc., of Annapolis Junction, for $126 million in cash and stock.

A Frederick man fell to his death at a new condo construction site in Hanover Tuesday morning, Anne Arundel County police said. Ismael Celestino Lopez-Rojas, 32, an employee for a subcontractor of roofing company Topper Construction, had climbed onto a roof of the three-story condo at 1475 Dorsey Road to secure a safety-anchor, when police said he apparently lost his footing, and fell off of the roof, shortly before 7 a.m. Lopez-Rojas, of...

ITT Corp. has chosen Hanover over New York and Colorado as the site of a new information technology facility that will create 90 jobs over the next four years and serve the company's offices worldwide, Anne Arundel County officials said Monday. The company's Information Technology Global Center of Excellence will open Aug. 1 in Arundel Mills Corporate Park. Anne Arundel County competed with five potential sites, including locations in New York and Colorado, and was chosen in part because of the proximity to Baltimore Washington International – Thurgood Marshall Airport and an array of hotels, officials said.

Anne Arundel County police officers are looking for a hit-and-run driver who struck a 64-year-old bicyclist in Hanover on Sunday morning, sending him to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. According to the Anne Arundel County Police Department and Shock Trauma Center spokesperson Cindy Rivers, the bicyclist, Stephen Eugene Shenefiel of the 1500 block of Conifer Ridge Lane in Prescott, Arizona, was listed in critical but stable condition as of Sunday night. Officers responded at 7:36 a.m. Sunday to the report of a bicyclist who was struck on Ridge Road near Furnace Avenue.

Lulu, a pleasantly plump pole dancer from Hanover, Md., made quite the splash last night on "America's Got Talent," shimmying and writhing up her pole and eventually landing in a jaw-dropping split. The 27-year-old contestant, who works as an accounting and title clerk, had "a big goal, and that's to dance," she told the cameras. She's been dancing for as long as she could remember, though having two kids sidelined her for a time. Lulu strutted out onto the stage in a teeny aqua-colored bikini, introduced herself, and began her routine.