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Ellicott City Sex Trial, Elkridge Meth Lab Update, Columbia's Future Plans: Top Headlines

Also on the list, Howard County hospital delivers baby at 25 weeks, I-95 is shut down for hazardous materials, and man dies from electrocution at construction site.

Hazardous materials teams responded to a collision on I-95 just south of Route 32 on Monday.


A 29-year-old Hyattsville man was carrying metal scaffolding when it came in contact with a live wire.


A jury spent six hours deliberating the fate of a 54-year-old barber accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old client in an Ellicott City salon.

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"I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," Spencer Smith, 22, told Patch.

Aging Columbia Population Prompts Leaders to Look Ahead
Columbia Association president Phil Nelson presented plan for Columbia's future to CA's board of directors.

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Gas station by Montgomery Road lost power Monday when nearby utility line went up in smoke.

Big Names Headline Merriweather's Virgin Mobile FreeFest
ZZ Top, Jack White, Nas and Skrillex to headline free concert at Merriweather in October.

Tamara Walden-Regenold went into labor at 25 weeks, but with the help of the staff at Howard County General Hospital, her baby survived.


Howard County officials said there would be "dramatic movement" near Route 100 and US 1.

The latest project in the Village of River Hill is supposed to make roads more friendly to bicyclists and pedestrians.


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