Man gets 50 years in killing of woman, unborn child

A 33-year-old man received a 50-year sentence in Baltimore County Circuit Court on Friday for the murder of his girlfriend and their unborn child in Rosedale last year. Kenneth Walter Worrell pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Summer Smith and the child. Smith, 33, was nine months pregnant when she was killed in June 2014. Smith had been stabbed and cut 121 times when her mother found her dead at the foot of the basement stairs of their home on Travis Court in Rosedale, according to prosecutors. Police found a bank receipt in Worrell’s car from the day of the killings that contained Smith’s blood, prosecutors said. Judge Justin King handed down concurrent life sentences for each murder, suspending all but 50 years, according to the Baltimore County state’s attorney’s office.

New president at Harford Community College

The Harford Community College board of trustees has announced Dianna G. Phillips as the school’s new president. Phillips will take over leadership of the college beginning Aug. 1. She is replacing Dennis Golladay, who is retiring at the end of the school year. Phillips comes from the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, where she has worked since 2014. Phillips also held positions at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, N.J., and Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y.