Laurel Leader

19/03/2023

A jockey tied the record for most wins in a single card at Laurel Park on Friday.

A jockey from Puerto Rico tied the record for most wins in a single card at Laurel Park on Friday.

09/03/2023

Former Laurel police chief David Crawford put flame to one Ellicott City couple's home twice, according to prosecutors, inflicting devastating losses on the family while eerily maintaining friendly contact with them.

David Crawford put flame to one couple's home twice, according to prosecutors, inflicting devastating losses on the family while eerily maintaining friendly contact with them.

01/03/2023

The former Laurel police chief charged with intentionally igniting a dozen retaliatory fires throughout central Maryland over a decade is slated to stand trial for the first time Wednesday.

Former Laurel police chief David Crawford, who is charged with intentionally igniting a dozen retaliatory fires throughout central Maryland over a decade, is slated to stand trial for the first time Wednesday in Howard County.

07/11/2022

The Maryland horse track owner has determined it must divest itself of not just Pimlico, as planned, but could sell Laurel Park to some type of state-run sports authority — rather than pay tens of millions of dollars in taxes on track improvements.

Supporters had hoped construction could begin next summer to revamp the historic Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. But the Maryland Stadium Authority says that timetable "is no longer realistic.”

01/11/2022

As Laurel's Larry W. Cook Jr. prepared his artwork for “A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration,” the new show at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the trauma inflicted on five generations of his male ancestors gradually came into focus.

With the work of a dozen artists, "A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration" at the Baltimore Museum of Art explores the exodus of some 6 million Black Americans who left the South to resettle in northern cities.

25/10/2022

A racetrack may seem an odd venue for a stage show like Simon and Garfunkel, but in 1983 Laurel Park drew fans from both Baltimore and Washington and held nearly four times the crowd that could fit into Merriweather Post Pavilion.

A racetrack may seem an odd venue for a stage show, but the site drew fans from both Baltimore and Washington and held nearly four times the crowd that could fit into Merriweather Post Pavilion.

28/09/2022

Anne Arundel County Police are investigating a suspicious death in Laurel after human remains were discovered in the back of a burned-out car.

Investigators discovered charred remains in the backseat of a burned-out car 100 yards off the road in the area of Brock Bridge Road and Tribeca Trail.

16/09/2022

Howard County police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run late Thursday night in Laurel.

09/09/2022

The two-week murder trial against a Laurel man accused of fatally stabbing 28-year-old Deontae Swingler at a birthday party in Severn last year ended Friday afternoon after jurors spent roughly an hour and a half deliberating several homicide counts.

09/09/2022

High concentrations of blue-green algae have been found in the T. Howard Duckett Reservoir, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission said Thursday.

08/09/2022

I-95 was partially closed for more than six hours on Wednesday after the crash in Laurel, according to state police.

I-95 was partially closed for more than six hours after the crash, according to state police.

31/08/2022

Cody Morris joined the Cleveland Guardians’ taxi squad on Wednesday and is set to be activated off the injured list Thursday when rosters expand. The 25-year-old Laurel native would be making his MLB debut.

31/08/2022

A Baltimore County jury convicted a Laurel man of first-degree murder Tuesday for the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Zeshaan Toppa in October 2020.

14/07/2022

Two Bowie residents and a Laurel man conspired with others to reap $1.6 million of unemployment insurance money during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

14/07/2022

A 64-year-old Laurel man pleaded guilty Tuesday to the 1982 murder of Laney Lee McGadney, whose death became a 40-year-old cold case before the introduction of DNA testing cracked the case.

07/07/2022

Juliette Whittaker, an 18-year-old Laurel resident who was recently named The Baltimore Sun’s high school girls Athlete of the Year a second straight time, becomes the first girl track and field performer from Maryland to win Gatorade’s national award.

28/06/2022

Leaving Mount de Sales as the area’s most prolific girl runner ever, Laurel native and Stanford commit Juliette Whittaker is only the sixth athlete to be a repeat winner of The Baltimore Sun high school Athlete of the Year in the awards’ 55 years.

Leaving Mount de Sales as the area’s most prolific girl runner ever, Stanford commit Juliette Whittaker is only the sixth athlete — boy or girl — to be a repeat winner of The Baltimore Sun high school Athlete of the Year in the awards’ 55 years.

26/06/2022

The United States has won all three world championships and will try to remain perfect with the help of four Maryland residents — including Jennifer Gray of Laurel.

The United States has won all three world championships and will try to remain perfect with the help of four Maryland residents.