Arundel Digest

Women fight off home invader

Hillsmere - Two sisters, ages 80 and 89, fought off a home invader who broke into their Hillsmere house, county police said.

The women told police that at about 3:25 a.m. today, they were sitting at their dining room table in the 200 block of Cedar Lane.

Then they heard a loud bang.

The sound, they said, was a man in a hooded sweatshirt kicking in their door.

He entered their home, demanded money and rummaged through their purses.

As he searched for valuables, one woman grabbed a reaching stick and beat him on the head with it, police said.

That startled the...