Harford

A 12-year-old Havre de Grace girl remains hospitalized after sustaining "significant" injuries from a fall from the King & Queen Seat in Rocks State Park Saturday, several emergency information sources said. Three Department of Natural Resources Park Service workers also suffered minor injuries during the rescue attempt, Sgt. Brian Albert, spokesman for the Maryland Natural Resources Police, said. The girl, who was not identified, fell between 40 and 50 feet from the south side of the rock outcropping that is popular with climbers but has a history of falls ending in serious injury and death, the Harford Fire & EMS Association reported on its media Facebook page.

The Harford County State's Attorney's Office honored local law enforcement officers, at the annual DUI Award Ceremony May 15, for their drunk driving enforcement efforts. Harford State's Attorney Joseph Cassilly presented awards to law enforcement officers who made outstanding drunk and drugged driving arrests during 2012. The ceremony was held in the ceremonial courtroom in the Harford County Courthouse in Bel Air. "Our law enforcement officers are the best in their efforts to maintain safety on the county's roads," Cassilly said.

Teachers and others concerned about county funding of the 2014 school budget were expected to stage another protest at Tuesday night's Harford County Council meeting in Bel Air. With time running out in the budget review process, the 1 percent pay increase the teachers union negotiated earlier this year with the Harford County Board of Education appears to be in jeopardy after Harford County Executive David Craig declined to fund the entire increase...

Someone's been making off with the big industrial batteries that provide backup power at traffic signals in Baltimore, and now the thefts are being investigated by the city inspector general's office, which looks into allegations of waste, fraud and abuse in municipal government. A representative of the battery's manufacturer said the thieves most likely would have tried to sell the 54-pound batteries as scrap for their lead content. Russell Conelley, an agent in the IG's office, confirmed in an interview with The Baltimore Sun that it is investigating battery thefts reported to have occurred along Harford Road in Northeast Baltimore and Wilkens Avenue in Southwest Baltimore.

Eight-month-old Brooklyn Metzbower from Abingdon was named 2013 Harford's Most Beautiful Baby as part of the fourth annual "Celebree Presents Harford's Most Beautiful Baby" contest, hosted by Harford Family House and SARC. As the winner of the contest, Brooklyn received more than $11,000 in cash and prizes, including a full year of pre-school valued at $9,700 donated by title sponsor Celebree Learning Centers. The grand prize package also featured a $1,000 cash prize from Susquehanna Bank, a photo session with photographer Anni Oh valued at $1,150, a six-week swim session with Kid's First Swim School, eight classes to MyGym and gift certificates from Tiny Toes, Subway and Mars Food Stores.

Registration is open for The Children's Center of North Harford's 2013 Summer Adventures Program. Open to children ages 4 to 11, Summer Adventures is set to begin Monday, June 17 and offers 10 theme-based weeks of fun and learning. Weekly themes include The Rainforest, Prehistoric Times and Down on the Farm as well as many others. The program runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Before and after care are optional and run from 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The Summer Adventures Program will be held in the newly renovated school-age classroom.

Harford County was recently awarded nearly $867,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care, or CoC, Program to help homeless people find shelter and other services. The funding increased about 6 percent from the previous year and last year's funding and will account for the increased fair market rents, the county government said in a news release. "We are very pleased with HUD's decision to increase CoC funding in Harford County, allowing us to give more to the nonprofits who serve our most vulnerable citizens," stated Harford County Executive David Craig.

Aberdeen A cashier at the Rite Aid in the 1000 block of Beards Hill Road reported $100 had been stolen Wednesday. The suspect was described as a black man with a medium build, wearing black pants, a blue button-down shirt, a large necklace and appeared to be 40 to 50 years old. A theft of a television was reported at the Target in the 1000 block of Middleton Road. The suspect was described as a balding white man of medium build, wearing a white shirt, light-colored shorts.

A. Blaine Hawley, principal of Red Pump Elementary School in Bel Air, was recently elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). Gail Connelly, NAESP's executive director, announced the election results from the association's headquarters in Alexandria, Va. Hawley begins her three-year term as director of Zone 3 on July 1. She will represent principals in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia.

The Harford County Department of Inspections, Licenses and Permits, or DILP, working in cooperation with the Department of Information Systems, has made technology enhancements that will now allow DILP to migrate from traditional file storage to electronic storage of construction documents. Because of limited file storage space, DILP's practice had been to discard a large percentage of submitted documents after 180 days from the issuance of the Certificate of Occupancy. The new electronic storage retrieval system will alleviate the need for maintain paper or "hard" copies of approved plans and will assist DILP inspectors in accessing documents while in the field on assignments.