I don’t think anyone would argue that Explore Howard is the most widely read HoCo loco news media. That’s what makes their list of the top ten stories of 2010 all the more interesting. In this story by Charles Schelle in the Columbia Flier we get a glimpse of what HoCo locos have really been paying attention to.
Is it Columbia Town Center
Not in the top ten.
Is it anything about Liz Bobo?
Not in the top ten.
Okay then, how about the HoCo elections in general; surely this was big news in 2010?
Nope, not in the top ten either.
It turns out that true crime stories is what HoCo locos really like. Number one is the story of a mother-son murder suicide in Hickory Ridge. Number two was the story of the assault of a female jogger in Jessup.
At least seven out eight of the top time were related to crime in HoCo. A notable exception was number eight, the story of the passing of Ken Hovet, longtime HoCo teacher and coach.
The open question is whether the tenth most popular story actually qualifies as a crime story...yet
