Owings Mills

Stevenson University has bought the Shire Pharmaceuticals plant next door to its Owings Mills campus, a $10.5 million deal that a school official said will expand the grounds by a third and help meet the goal of increasing full-time student enrollment to 4,000 in the next two years. "It was just a great opportunity we couldn't pass up," Tim Campbell, Stevenson's executive vice president for financial affairs and chief financial officer, said of the sale that closed Tuesday, expanding the campus in northwestern Baltimore County from 74 to 102 acres.

Midway through the third quarter of his team's 73-51 loss to No. 8 Dunbar Friday, Owings Mills coach Richard Epps sat on on the bench with his hands crossed and a look of disappointment on his face. Dunbar's defense had stuck again. In a game that featured a rematch of last year's Class 1A state championship, the Poets made sure this one wasn't as close as their 64-53 win at College Park. In a Basketball Academy game at Coppin State's Physical Education Complex, the Poets (11-0) turned up the defensive intensity to go on a 24-11 run in the third quarter, breaking open a game that was tight at the half.

A 27-year-old Reisterstown man was killed after being ejected from his vehicle in a car accident in Owings Mills early Sunday morning, according to Baltimore County police. Christopher Klinefelter, of the first block of Bosley Lane, was traveling south on Garrison Forest Road near Nancy Ellen Way in a 2006 GMC Sierra about 2:40 a.m. when he failed to negotiate a curve in the road and the vehicle went into a grassy area on the northbound side of the road, police said. The vehicle then struck a retaining wall and went airborne as it traveled, flipping in the air, back onto the road, police said.

Six weeks after Scott M. Greenberg was found shot to death in his parents' house in Owings Mills in August, 2009, police arrested Gerald E. Sears and charged him with murder, robbery and drug-dealing. Police never found the murder weapon, or the wallet, bank card and cell phone they claim Sears took from Greenberg. Nor did they find Sears' fingerprints or DNA in the house. What they did get were cell phone records, Sears' admission that he'd been in the house to sell crack cocaine, and no sign the house on Velvet Valley Way had been ransacked by a burglar.

When Baltimore County officials gathered for a news conference in the fall to reveal plans to revitalize the half-empty Owings Mills Mall, a cheery slogan lit up a screen behind them: "Owings Mills — it's happening!" The mall event was one of three major economic development announcements within six months for an area that has long awaited a makeover. But behind the scenes, a battle is brewing between the prominent developers investing in the projects. Plans for Owings Mills include a $65 million revamping of the mall; a huge, mixed-use development called Metro Centre near the end of Baltimore's subway line; and Foundry Row, an upscale retail complex anchored by a Wegmans grocery store at the Solo Cup manufacturing site off Reisterstown Road.

With the game tied at 61 with nine seconds left, Koron Ford brought the ball up 80 feet and hit Ceontay Coit with a bounce pass. Coit made the game-winning layup with 1.7seconds left as host Owings Mills upset No. 6 Randallstown, 63-61, Friday night. The Eagles (14-7) led for most of the game, attacking the basket and using a zone defense to frustrate the Rams (17-4). Coit finished with 14 points for Owings Mills, and Tommy Heard had a game-high 27points for Randallstown. No. 10 Poly 58, Forest Park 53: The Engineers (15-5, 5-2 City)

Something really wonderful is coming to Owings Mills. The Solo Cup factory (which used to be Sweetheart Cup, which used to be Maryland Cup Corp.) was sold in 2011. Less than a year later, a shovel-ready proposal awaits zoning approval by the Baltimore County Council. Foundry Row is an upscale retail, restaurant and office project, anchored by Wegmans, the quintessential suburban food palace. The vote will take place Aug. 28. Contrary to its detractors, Foundry Row will be a boon to the community, the county and the state.

Baltimore County police and fire personnel throughout the region are participating today in the funeral for Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Department member Gene Kirchner, who died Thursday of injuries he suffered in a fire last week in Reisterstown. The funeral was held beginning at 1 p.m., at Har Sinai Congregation, on Walnut Avenue in Owings Mills. County police say Walnut Avenue was closed between Greenspring Avenue and Park Heights Avenue beginning at 11:30 a.m., and will reopen when the procession has left Har Sinai.

A Baltimore man was killed in a bizarre accident Thursday afternoon as he was driving in Owings Mills when another driver struck a deer and the deer flew through his windshield, Baltimore County police said. Police identified the man as Daniel Mark Fisher, 56, of the Cheswolde neighborhood. A woman was driving southbound on Garrison Forest Road near Rosewood Lane about 2:40 p.m. when a deer suddenly ran in front of her sport utility vehicle, police said. The woman's SUV hit the deer and sent it flying into the air and into the windshield of Fisher's Honda Civic, killing him and the deer.

Owings Mills resident Buzz Levin will be cycling in the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, Aug. 6-7, for the 21st consecutive year to raise money to support lifesaving adult and pediatric cancer care and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through the Jimmy Fund. Levin, who has raised more than $107,000 for the charity, will be one of 5,000 riders participating in the event in which he will cycle 190 miles over two days on the longest of the event's 11 routes.