BALTIMORE, MD—This week, Jiffy Lube honored Baltimore-based Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland volunteer Kathi Howard for her unwavering dedication to service with one year of free vehicle maintenance. The Reisterstown resident has been a volunteer with Meals on Wheels for more than 32 years, where she and her sister, Pam Cline, serve meals each week to seniors and other […]
OVERLEA, MD—An Overlea man has been convicted on murder charges in connection with a fatal stabbing in 2020. Jimmy Foye, 63, was convicted on Tuesday of the murder of Irma Garrido Ruiz in Baltimore County Circuit Court. At 12:30 p.m. on January 3, 2020, Ruiz was found dead inside her Reisterstown home. She had been stabbed 44 times. Ruiz’s cellphone […]
NOTTINGHAM, MD—Six school-based educators from across Baltimore County have been selected as this year’s finalists for the BCPS Teacher of the Year. The finalists were chosen from among 157 school teacher of the year nominees by a committee composed of BCPS administrators, staff, students, TABCO (Teachers Association of Baltimore County) representation, and current BCPS Teacher of the Year and Maryland […]
BALTIMORE, MD—The Associate Medical Director of a Baltimore County pain management clinic will spend time behind bars after accepting kick-backs. U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III this week sentenced Howard Hoffberg, M.D., 65, of Reisterstown, to eight months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statutes, in connection with a […]
TOWSON, MD—Three Baltimore County Public Schools students swept the “under 21” category of Baltimore County Public Library’s Tales of the Dead Short Horror Story Contest. Polly Sloan, a Grade 7 student at Parkville Middle School, won first place for “The Letters from No One,” about a man receiving mysterious and terrifying letters predicting his imminent death. Second place went to […]
ESSEX, MD—A Reisterstown man has been convicted in connection with a fatal stabbing that occurred at an Essex bar last year. Shawn A. Parks, 33, was found guilty of first-degree, premeditated murder by a jury late Monday in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. On August 30, 2020, officers with the Baltimore County Police Department responded to the parking lot […]
BALTIMORE, MD—Police say a 10-year-old girl who went missing from Baltimore County in May of last year still has not been found. Ailea Brown was last seen on May 25, 2019 at her home in the 300-block of Erin Russel Court in Reisterstown (21136). A white SUV was seen in the area at around the same time. Ailea is 4’8″ […]
UPDATE: Jimmy Foye has been convicted of murder. Original story below… —— OVERLEA, MD—Police have arrested and charged an Overlea man in connection with a fatal stabbing that occurred in Reisterstown on Friday. Homicide detectives have charged Jimmy Foye Sr., 60, with first-degree murder in the death of 43-year-old Irma Lily Garrido Ruiz. At just after 12:30 p.m. on January […]