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Routine, random drug dog scans were conducted in student lockers and parking lots at Edgewood High and Harford Technical High schools Tuesday. No illegal drugs or tobacco products were found, according to Harford County Public Schools. The scans were accomplished using a canine under the direction of the Harford County Sheriff's Office, according to a school system press release. At Edgewood High, the parking lot scan involved 20 cars in the school's parking lot being sniffed by the dog, according to the release.

I'm going to blame Debbie. For the moment I am not going to take any responsibility for my bumper kissing the one on the car in front of me because i was so focused with Debbie on my mind. I hadn't seen Debbie in, what, 10? 12? years, and at one time we were the best of friends. Yeah, yeah, I've gotten those email spams that tell me that there are different types of friendships: deep, emotional ones, utilitarian ones, ones based on pleasure, seasonal ones, lifelong ones.But for as long as we knew each other, our friendship was bottomless.

The next Nationwide Prescription Drug Take Back Day will be Saturday in Harford County. People can turn in prescription drugs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot of the county government office building at 220 S. Main St. in Bel Air. The parking lot is at the corner of Business Route 1 (Baltimore Pike) and South Main Street. No questions will be asked when the medications are turned in. The event is sponsored by the Harford County Department of Community Services and its Office of Drug Control Policy.

This year marks Charles Ostrander's fifth Black Friday with Best Buy. The 31-year-old Essex resident currently works at the store's branch in White Marsh as a Mobile Manager. On Friday, he will be working a 14-hour day consisting of two 7-hour shifts with a couple hours of break in between. But according to Ostrander, the excitement of the day is so intense that the time goes by quickly. “I have always called it the 'Super Bowl of Retail' because it's 'go time,'” he explains. “This is where retail's best establishments go all-out for their customers and is kind of the kickoff for the holiday shopping season.” But what about the madness and horror stories we always hear about Black Friday shopping?

Laurel Boy Scout Troop 1250 will hold a car wash fundraiser Saturday, Oct. 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot of Chick-Fil-A, 13600 Baltimore Ave. (Contee Road at Route 1). The troop is chartered by St. Mary of the Mills.

A 19-year-old Westminster was arrested and charged with first- and second-degree assault after a Frederick man was stabbed in the parking lot of TownMall in Westminster on Oct. 17. The Westminster Police Department said that on Monday at 7:01 p.m., officers responded to a report of a stabbing in the mall's parking lot. When police units arrived on the scene they found that a 23-year-old Frederck man had been stabbed in the abdomen. The victim was transported to University of Maryland Shock Trauma for treatment.

A Chick-fil-A in Abingdon was robbed by two gunmen Saturday morning, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said. The men approached workers in the parking lot about 5 a.m. and forced their way inside the restaurant, in the 400 block of Constant Friendship Blvd. They forced a manager to open a safe and stole an undisclosed amount of money, the sheriff's office said. The men were seen leaving the scene in a black or dark-colored Chevy Cobalt, the sheriff's office said. No one was injured in the robbery.

I was going to write something about how nobody in Lutherville seems to walk on the brand new York Road sidewalk that runs from the Beltway to Ridgely Road, but something happened last Monday night, Oct. 3, that seems to illustrate the point. I was having dinner with my family in Orchard Hills, wondering why there was a helicopter was circling the neighborhood with the spotlight on - you see this every so often in the Towson area, but it seemed close. By about 7:30 p.m., they seemed to be looking elsewhere.

A 25-year-old man was shot in the head and chest early Sunday morning in the parking lot of Pimlico Race Course , which has recently started hosting late-night private events in hopes of generating additional revenue. The shooting was one of at least two violent incidents in the city tied to the night-life scene, with three hospitalized after a stabbing inside a Mount Vernon club. At Pimlico, officials from the Maryland Jockey Club said they were reviewing the circumstances surrounding the shooting.

Baltimore County Police are searching for two men who robbed a Royal Farms store in Towson Friday morning and then robbed a person in the parking lot on their way out. The incident was reported at the Royal Farms at 6:58 a.m. in the 1500 block of Joppa Road, near Pleasant Plains Road, said Cpl. John Wachter of Baltimore County Police. One of the men had a silver handgun, but there was no indication the weapon was fired, Wachter said. Both men, described as under 30 years old, wore masks covering their noses and mouths and carried black backpacks, Wachter said.