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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Crews Battle Two Overnight House Fires in Howard County

Three adults and two children were displaced in one of the fires, officials reported.

Two fires caused significant damage to two homes in Columbia and Clarksville late Tuesday evening and early Wednesday morning, fire officials said. No serious injuries were reported in either fire, but one of the fires displaced five individuals, according to the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services. The first fire started just after 10:39 p.m. at a two-story single family home near the 7000 block of Guilford Road in Clarksville. Officials reported seeing fire showing from the second floor of the residence. About 30 firefighters extinguished the blaze in approximately 20 minutes, according to fire officials.  No one was displaced as a result of the fire, and officials estimated $5,000 in damages to the home. The cause of …

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Art Bandit's Work Appears Mysteriously on Old Columbia Road

Have you seen the bandit's art?

If you’ve driven on Old Columbia Road over the past month you may have seen the art bandit’s work posted on lamp posts and trees. There has been a replica deer’s head placed high on a tree, a kid's shovel shaped like a fish, voodoo signs, a tiki doll attached to a tree and a couple of grotesque wood-carved faces, according to the front desk workers at the Preston Country Club for Pets, located at 7363 Old Columbia Rd., in the center of the art bandit’s posting zone.  On Monday afternoon, only two wood-carved faces remained. One was posted just across the driveway of Preston's, the other was located on a speed limit sign near the intersection of Old Columbia Road and Johns Hopkins Road. The police have been taking down the bandit’s work, …

ABC

3:33 pm on Wednesday, May 2, 2012

I don't mind this art. What I do mind are all of the lamp posts alond Broken Land and Little Patuxent that are covered in graffitti and the medians at the entrance to the mall that are also covered in graffiti.   more ›

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