Hanover

A Hanover-based maker of components for power transmissions, oil rigs and steel mills said Monday it will shut its manufacturing operation in the next 12 months to 15 months and lay off 125 hourly and salaried workers. Kop-Flex Inc., a division of St. Louis-based Emerson Electric Co., will phase out manufacturing at the Anne Arundel County location on Harmans Road, a decision based on "global economic and competitive pressures," Dave Baldridge, an Emerson spokesman, said Monday.

A Columbia woman faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guity to harboring illegal aliens in her Hanover restaurant. Yen Wan Cheng, 54, admitted to employing undocumented workers at the Red Parrot Asian Bistro, her restaurant in the 7600 block of Dorchester Blvd., according to the office of U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein in Baltimore. According to the plea agreement entered Friday in U.S. District Court, Cheng employed as many as 12 cooks, waiters and other staff — five of whom were not permitted to live or work in the country — from February 2009 to February of this year.

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.

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.

Authorities in Anne Arundel County say a 40-year-old man was killed this morning when a slab of granite fell on top of him. Police said the accident happened about 9:20 a.m. in the 7200 block of Standard Drive in Hanover as the man was unloading granite from a tractor trailer at a store. He was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.

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.

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.

The driver of a pickup truck suspected of being impaired by alcohol and speeding the wrong way on westbound Route 100 hit a Toyota Camry head-on early today, critically injuring the 36-year-old driver, according to Anne Arundel County police. Olasupo Dosunmu of Hanover was rushed by state police Medevac helicopter to Maryland Shock Trauma Center after being cut from his crushed vehicle by firefighters. Police said he was driving the 1999 Camry in the slow lane of westbound Route 100 near Telegraph Road when he was struck by a 2006 Ford F-150 truck heading in the opposite direction on the highway about 2:45 a.m. Anne Arundel police identified the driver of the pickup truck as Leon Franklin Medura Jr., 28, of Crofton.

A 27-year-old driver pleaded guilty Thursday to automobile manslaughter in the death last year of a Hanover woman as she waited to cross the street to attend Mass. Matthew Evan Norwood of Linthicum Heights told Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge William C. Mulford II that he had fallen asleep after taking medication last Aug. 26 when his van jumped the curb and struck Mary Bernice Collins, 59, of Hanover. Collins had been standing on the sidewalk waiting to cross Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard to go to Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Deputy State's Attorney William D. Roessler said.