Ringworm, Butt Grabber, Mall Shootings: Top Columbia Patch Stories

As the new year approaches, let’s review the past 12 months on Columbia Patch:

• Witnesses Describe Gunshots, Chaos in Columbia Mall Shooting
• Serial Groper Admits to Grabbing Woman’s Butt at Columbia Target
• Ringworm Outbreak Closes Howard County Animal Shelter
• Inside Scoop on Whole Foods in Columbia
• Columbia Mall Zumiez Employee: ‘She Was One of the Nicest People I’ve Ever Met’
• Petit Louis Columbia Announces February Opening
• Two People Transported, Three Cats Rescued in Columbia Apartment Fire
• Howard County Executive Announces New Police Chief
• Athleta Opens at Mall in Columbia
• Columbia Man, 22, and Three Others Charged in Laurel Homicide
• Zumiez at The Mall in Columbia Reopening This Spring
• Cash for Cell Phone Kiosk to Be Removed from Mall in Columbia
• ‘I Pray ... That People Don’t Get Scared to Go Out in Public’: Citizens Unite at Columbia Mall
• Police: Fatal Columbia Gateway Crash May Have Involved Medical Emergency
• Columbia Man Charged in Sexual Assault of 86-Year-Old

What do you think will be stories to watch in Columbia in 2015? Tell us in the comments!

Photos, clockwise from top left: Petit Louis opened in February. Zumiez covered its facade while under renovations following triple fatal shooting incident in January. Whole Foods opened in August. Citizens united in prayer at Mall in Columbia in February.