Erika Brannock home from Boston [Video]

Harbor's water quality rated C-minus - with an asterisk

Despite a foul-smelling algae bloom and fish kill this time last year, Baltimore's ailing harbor actually earned a C-minus grade overall for water quality in 2012, according to the latest ecological report card issued by the

Rock Creek residents help grow oysters

As gulls and cormorants perched on the walls of Fort Carroll looked on, a crabbing boat stopped long enough to jettison 30 bushel baskets of very special oyster shells into the Patapsco River.

Don Backe Memorial CRAB Cup taking place this weekend in Annapolis

A two-day regatta for disabled sailors takes place this weekend in Annapolis. The Don Backe Memorial CRAB Cup, hosted by the Annapolis Yacht Club, honors the memory of the Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating's founder and former executive director.

For Joe Datsko, 92, cycling has helped him lead 'more active, longer life'

Joe Datsko was an admitted workaholic for the first 25 years of a 47-year career as a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Michigan. Datsko likes to say that until he was in his early 50s "most of my exercise was writing on a blackboard."

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Autobahn Indoor Speedway brings the roar of racing to Jessup

In a former warehouse nestled deep in a Howard County industrial park, people are getting in touch with their inner Danica Patrick.

Ailing Wiggins will not defend Tour de France title

PARIS, May 31 (Reuters) - Bradley Wiggins's Tour de France challenge ended before it even started on Friday when the defending champion was ruled out of Team Sky's selection for next month's race because of injury and illness.

Anne Arundel students build a better, or at least less problematic, crab trap

For years, environmentalists and watermen have been searching for a way to deal with the Chesapeake Bay's "ghost pots" — derelict crab traps that are too deep to retrieve and too problematic to co-exist with marine life. Though the traps have been abandoned, they continue to ensnare and kill...

Boston Marathon victims' mom will run in Columbia fundraiser

Carol Downing will run in her first race since the Boston Marathon when a bomb blast injured her daughters Erika Brannock and Nicole Gross on Sunday, June 2, in the Howard County Striders 4.09 run in Columbia.

The Baltimore Bike Party is taking over the streets in style

On a recent Friday evening, a carnival on wheels took to the streets of Baltimore. Women decked out in chandelier earrings juggled floor-length or knee-high dresses on bicycles. Men wearing bow ties and blazers peddled mountain bikes, while one young man sported a powder-blue tuxedo and loose...

Kid triathlons becoming more popular

When 11-year-old Benjamin Lausch competes in triathlons, his eye is on beating a boy from Pennsylvania named Daniel.