Joppa

A Virginia man is being held at the Harford County Detention Center in Bel Air after he was arrested and charged in connection with the armed robbery of a Joppa convenience store Tuesday evening, Maryland State Police said. Andrew Martin Javoroski, 22, of the 16000 block of Sheffield Lane in Dumfries, Va., is charged with first- and second-degree assault, robbery, armed robbery, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, unauthorized removal of property and theft between $10,000 and $100,000, according to Maryland online court records.

A 47-year-old Joppa resident died Wednesday night in a motorcycle accident on Old York Road, according to the Baltimore County police department. Larry Stephen Hicks Jr., of the 1900 block of Mountain Road in Joppa, was pronounced dead at the scene. According to the police department, officers responded around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a motorcycle accident at Old York Road and Openshaw Road. Investigators determined that the 2008 Harley Davidson motorcycle operated by Hicks was traveling eastbound on Old York Road when it left the roadway and struck a utility pole.

A veteran Maryland State Police Trooper assigned to the Bel Air Barrack was injured after he crashed his cruiser during a high speed chase in the Joppa area of Harford County early Friday morning, state police said. The injuries sustained by Senior Trooper Jon Sawa were not life threatening. According to a state police news release, during the early morning hours of Friday, Sawa initiated a traffic stop of a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt on southbound Route 152 (Mountain Road) near Stockton Road.

The Havre de Grace Warriors improved to 3-1 in softball on the year with a victory Wednesday, topping the visiting Joppatowne Mariners, 21-1. The Aberdeen Eagles won three and the Perryville Panthers lost once in recent girls softball action. The Havre de Grace-Joppatowne game ended after five innings because of the 10-run mercy rule. Warrior starter Megan Thompson tossed a no-hitter, striking out eight and issuing six walks over five innings of work. Joppatowne's lone run was scored in the second inning on two wild pitches and a passed ball.

Taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, Dec. 7, 1961: Harford County officials were up in arms over the Maryland State Roads Commission's decision a half century ago this week to eliminate the interchanges at Routes 155 in Havre de Grace and Route 152 in Joppa from their plans for a Northeastern Expressway. Harford County had a strong supporter in then Comptroller Louis M. Goldstein. Mr. Gold stein stated, "Are you working for the taxpayers of Maryland or the investment houses of New York?"

Allen Case, a founder of Case-Mason Inc. in Joppa, collapsed and died Dec. 15 as he was leaving his office to pursue one of his favorite pastimes -- goose-hunting on the Eastern Shore.Mr. Case, 64, of Warren Manor Court in Cockeysville drove himself to Fallston General Hospital complaining of a headache and was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died of a brain aneurysm.As an organ donor, Mr. Case helped three other patients.A native of Quincy, Mass., Mr. Case was a 1945 graduate of the St. Paul's School for Boys and then attended the Johns Hopkins University, where he joined the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.

Joppa View Elementary School in Perry Hall has been looking at alternatives to standard grades since the school opened three years ago.The result: an assessment based on a portfolio of a student's work, a checklist of appropriate skills and behaviors and two mandatory parent-student-teacher conferences.The portfolio is a collection of a student's work, kept in a folder in the classroom.The student can put anything he wants into the folder; the teacher also contributes examples of the student's work.

In an article in the April 24 edition of The Sun for Harford County, William George Fender, one of 18 people linked by police to a Joppa drug operation, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana, not cocaine.The Sun regrets the errors.Isabel Velez, the convicted 53-year-old matriarch of East Coast drug kingpins, sits in the county Detention Center awaiting sentencing on cocaine charges that could bring the Joppa woman a 200-year prison term and $1.2 million in fines.As a Circuit Court jury ended the nine-day trial Tuesday after only three hours of deliberation, Velez muttered to her courtroom Spanish translator, "Jesus, forgive them for they know not what they do," a deputy sheriff said.

Because of an increasing number of calls for law enforcement services in Joppa, Sheriff Joseph P. Meadows has decided to designate that area as a separate patrol beat.That means that, as staffing permits, at least one deputy a shift will be assigned exclusively to Joppa and will leave that beat only to back up deputies in emergencies in other sectors."We recognize Joppa is not the only area with a rising crime rate, but we are seeing a definite increase in the number of responses to that area," Sheriff Meadows said.

Joppa man was found fatally stabbed early yesterday in a parking lot in Edgewood, Harford County sheriff's deputies said. About 2 a.m., two passers-by saw the wounded David Arnold Byrd, 30, lying in the 1900 block of Edgewater Drive, said Sgt. Chris Presberry, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office. Byrd, of the 400 block of Latimer Road, had been stabbed in the torso. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, where he was pronounced dead, Presberry said. Presberry said police have no suspects in Byrd's killing.

Kristy and Tony Elkins, of Joppa, announce the birth of their first child, Adriana. Adriana was born at 5:21 p.m. March 5 at Franklin Square Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces and was 20 1/4 inches long. Paternal grandparents include Lynda and Larry Hodges, of Forest Hill, and Gerald Elkins, of Ocean Pines. Maternal grandparents include Glenda Ripka and Jay Witmer, of Bellefonte, Pa.

After a county study found that between 20 and 25 drivers were making U-turns daily near Joppa View Elementary School, the Department of Public Works has approved a U-turn prohibition at northbound Honeygo Boulevard at Dove Drive in White Marsh, according to a report released Thursday from 5th District Councilman David Marks. The county studied the number of U-turns at Dove Drive, and found within a 15-minute period after Joppa View began dismissing students for the day beginning at 3:35 p.m. there were scores of U-turns, the release stated.

As a resident of Baltimore County, I am opposed to CZMP Issue 5-019 filed by JC Bar (CVS). The issue is one of public safety and continued quality of life in Carney. The proposed CVS location is on Harford Road only slightly south of the intersection of Harford and Joppa roads. Having vehicles, both northbound and southbound on Harford Road, enter and exit from CVS at this point so close to the failing intersection of Joppa and Harford roads will be very unsafe. What the failing intersection does not need is another large commercial enterprise to disrupt the traffic flow at this critical point on Harford Road.

A Joppa man was sentenced Tuesday to nine months in prison for stealing funds from the Housing Authority of Baltimore and other public housing agencies across the country through software that his company developed and maintained for the agencies' use, prosecutors said. Jack G. Stout, 65, "illegally transferred funds from public housing authorities in Baltimore and in other states" using a computer program called Public Housing Authority Software that his company, Modern Software Technology Inc., developed and maintained, according to a statement Tuesday from Maryland's U.S. Attorney's Office.

Editor: A huge thank you to Marissa Gallo for her prompt account of the Joppa/Joppatowne Community Council meeting of Feb. 6, at Joppatowne High School: "Joppa ready to take on county council at March meeting. " One major correction: David Craig, county executive, has not answered any of our questions. If she had added exclamation points to some of her statements, you would have felt the ire of the residents of Joppa and Joppatowne who, for two months in a row, have waited for representatives from his office to explain the waste transfer station debacle!

A veteran Maryland State Police Trooper assigned to the Bel Air Barrack was injured after he crashed his cruiser during a high speed chase in the Joppa area of Harford County early Friday morning, state police said. The injuries sustained by Senior Trooper Jon Sawa were not life threatening. According to a state police news release, during the early morning hours of Friday, Sawa initiated a traffic stop of a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt on southbound Route 152 (Mountain Road) near Stockton Road.

Two brothers were arrested Wednesday for the May 23 armed robbery ofa Joppa bank, the FBI said.Michael T. Conner, 35, of Felton, Pa., and Terry S. Conner, 34, who is staying in Ruskin, Fla., were charged with federal bank robbery, the FBI said.Terry Conner is accused of pointing a long-barreled revolver at ateller at the Maryland National Bank in the Joppatowne Plaza on Pulaski Highway and demanding money, while Michael Conner is accused of driving a getaway car.The teller handed over an undisclosed amountof cash to the robber.

Juanita Eileen Skaggs, a retired social worker who lived in Joppa, died Sunday at a hospital in Oklahoma City after a stroke. She was 69.A memorial service for Mrs. Skaggs, who had been visiting relatives in Oklahoma City, was held yesterday at the Hahn-Cook/Street and Draper Funeral Home there.Born Juanita Eileen Gibson in Oklahoma City, she graduated from the University of Oklahoma and began doing social work after her husband, Jesse Sparks Skaggs Jr., retired as a major in the Air Force in 1962.

A state trooper narrowly escaped serious injury during an early-morning chase Friday along Route 152 in southern Harford County, and a suspect has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. John Jacob Nussle V, 22, of Joppa also faces assault and malicious destruction charges. Trooper Jon Sawa stopped a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt at 12:01 a.m. in the southbound lane near Stockton Road for erratic driving. When the driver in the Cobalt fled, the trooper pursued for about three miles in his unmarked patrol car. The cars veered into the northbound lane, and the Cobalt rammed the trooper's vehicle at least once, police said.

A Virginia man is being held at the Harford County Detention Center in Bel Air after he was arrested and charged in connection with the armed robbery of a Joppa convenience store Tuesday evening, Maryland State Police said. Andrew Martin Javoroski, 22, of the 16000 block of Sheffield Lane in Dumfries, Va., is charged with first- and second-degree assault, robbery, armed robbery, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle, unauthorized removal of property and theft between $10,000 and $100,000, according to Maryland online court records.