Anne Arundel County and Howard County home sales

Powhatan Beach Rd., 660-Jayson R. Barth to Tony Jun Huang, $261,000. Sagamore Ct., 2800-Richard L. and Teresa M. Helmick to Ryan and Amanda Doggett, $307,500. Shore Rd. W., 7727-Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to John Skarbek, $215,000.

Virginia National Guard soldiers return early from Iraq

... 825 soldiers, the largest unit of Virginia Army National Guard troops since WWII. It was specialist Matthew Curtis