Top Headlines From Dec. 7 to Dec. 12

It's been an exciting and condensed week for Owings Mills Patch, which with its launch Tuesday.

Unlike the peaceful but momentary lull they speak of after a site goes live, we woke up Wednesday to that targeted a Catonsville Armed Forces Career Center. Patch editors around the region launched into investigation mode, providing coverage on of the undercover FBI investigation. Those and an analysis of the character of Antonio Martinez, or Muhammad Hussain, 21, revealed that he and shocked former colleagues when they learned the plot stemmed f to jihad.

It also of the Catonsville Nine, a group led by a priest that set fire to documents in a Catonsville Selective Services office in 1968. Catonsville editor Penny Riordan provided a neatly written after some of the dust settled. Martinez is scheduled for a detention hearing at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Towson.

Alas, the Owings Mills Patch launch brought its share of stories. We posted and debuted about Franklin High's championship run to the state 3A football championships, which ended with a loss to the Wilde Lake Wildecats 21-14 at M&T Bank Stadium. In other sports news, in boy's basketball and wrestling head coach Guy Pritzker will continue in his 28th year with the program.

During Chanukah, the yearlong restoration of a 300-year-old Torah, and the Chabad of Owings Mills hosted   We also brought readers in both Owings Mills and Reisterstown an on Timber Grove Road due to the construction of the Cherry Hill Road bridge. And we debuted , which will deliver a recipe, photos and a candid retelling of a Louisiana native's attempts at cooking Cajun dishes for the first time.

In county news, Baltimore County executive Kevin Kamenetz and others were Monday. Insider politics from county reporter Bryan Sears that despite Kamenetz's request, Chairman Tom Minkin refuses to resign from the county's Board of Liquor License Commissioners.

And to kick off this weekend, Owings Mills was treated to . Despite reports, warmer temperatures and sunshine the next day out to the Owings Mills Volunteer Fire Company for its annual Christmas tree sale. in a three-part series on Liberty Reservoir told of the city under the water. I topped it off with a, with 13 ways you can use the Owings Mills Patch website to unify your community online.

Until next week, keep up with the site's highlights by watching what I post on Twitter at @OwingsPatch or Facebook, at facebook.com/OwingsMillsPatch.