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Fire damaged a mobile home near Aberdeen Friday evening.

The Army would shrink to its lowest troop levels since just before World War II under a budget proposed Monday by the Obama administration that seeks to downsize the Pentagon in ways that could have a significant impact on service members and contractors in Maryland.

Nearly six weeks after an Edgewood woman was murdered at a motel room in Edgewood, police made another arrest

My girlfriend was in town last weekend, and as I usually do when she is visiting from North Carolina, I took her out to dinner.

Harford County received another dusting of an inch to inch and a half of new snow overnight and early Tuesday morning.

Mercedes C. Samborsky, an accomplished musician who changed careers later in life and became a lawyer whose specialty was family law, died Jan. 31 of heart failure at Franklin Square Medical Center. She was 84.

Aberdeen, after all, grew up around a train that served as the community's primary economic draw. There's no reason a more inviting and vibrant active train station couldn't evolve into a much more important part of the city's economy than it is today.

As a distant relative of Army Chaplain Rev. Clark V. Poling, Jamey Struve of Bel Air is well versed in the events of the early hours of Feb. 3, 1943, when her mother's cousin and three of his fellow chaplains on the U.S. troop transport Dorchester sacrificed their lives for those of their fellow troops as the ship sank after being torpedoed by a German submarine.

The father and mother are nicely dressed in the style of the early 1950s. They posed with their two children, a toddler and a little girl who looks to be about 6 years old, for a photographic portrait in their living room.

Years go by and changes are made in some old buildings that we thought we would never forget. But we do.

Aberdeen's long-dilapidated historic train station might finally be moving forward with a new foundation, the Historical Society of Harford County said.

Four military chaplains who sacrificed their lives to save fellow passengers on a sinking transport ship during World War II will be honored during a memorial service in Aberdeen Saturday.

A space heater and an electrical problem caused two fires that damaged homes in Aberdeen and Edgewood, the Office of the State Fire Marshal reported.

Looking through the newspaper files of 1953 at the Aberdeen Room Archives, we found an interesting article about "Night Gunners" around the Bush River area.

While a number of homes in its neighborhood have been demolished to make way for intersection improvements along Route 22, Aberdeen's No. 3 firehouse has been relatively unscathed.

Charles Franklin Deem Jr., a military hospital administrator and retired U.S. Air Force major, died of pancreatic cancer Jan. 3 at Gilchrist Hospice Center in Towson. The Dundalk resident was 65.

The value of Aberdeen Proving Ground's contracts slid 13 percent last year, though businesses with Maryland locations ended up with roughly as much as the year before.

A team of civilian specialists from Aberdeen Proving Ground is heading this week to the Mediterranean Sea for what officials and others say is a historic mission to destroy Syria's chemical warfare stockpile – and one that could serve as a model in the drive to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction.

Two of those DOTAs, one support staffer and one pilot, visited Harford County Thursday afternoon to speak to an audience of about 100 people gathered at the Richlin Ballroom in Edgewood

The National Math and Science Initiative presented Aberdeen High School Friday with the organization's School of the Year award for its students' outstanding gains on Advanced Placement test scores during the 2012-13 academic year.

The U.S. Navy has demoted the master diver of the Navy company that lost two men in a training dive last February in Aberdeen, according to The Virginian-Pilot.

Some weeks ago we had just such a question. Would we be interested in some very old contact lenses and glasses? We already have some old eye glasses, but no contact lenses. Of course we would

The Pentagon plans to launch a pair of helium-filled blimps over Aberdeen Proving Ground capable of detecting, tracking and targeting cruise missiles, rockets and aircraft 340 miles away.

Harford County's public works director was up before the Aberdeen city council Monday in his bid to get all three local governments to sign on for an in-depth study of the proposed countywide water and sewer authority.

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Although temperatures are slated to warm up for the weekend, the last bit of cold weather is continuing to play havoc with schedules and driving in Harford County.

The large, inflatable chicken that gives Joppa's Chicken on the Roof restaurant its name was found to have run afoul of county law, Harford County Councilman Dion Guthrie said Tuesday.

The polar vortex covering most of the nation is still over the Harford County area, and while the wind has died down, it's still cold outside, prompting a late arrival at schools Wednesday and a local power company to ask customers to conserve energy.

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A pipe at the Canal Creek Groundwater Treatment Plant at the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground burst early Monday morning because of cold temperatures, sending about 29,000 gallons of untreated groundwater into a nearby storm drain, APG officials reported Tuesday.

The the first snowstorm of 2014 dumped six to eight inches of the white stuff accross Harford County from Thursday afternoon into early Friday morning, forcing the closure of schools and government offices

An Edgewood business was heavily damaged by fire Sunday afternoon, the fourth fire reported in Harford County this weekend.

Harford firefighters were kept busy Saturday, battling three blazes in different parts of Harford County - Aberdeen, Joppa and Forest Hill.

Maj. Gen.-promotable Robert S. Ferrell, the former senior commander of Aberdeen Proving Ground, has accepted a promotion to the Pentagon after less than two years at the helm of the Harford County Army installation.

The year just ended brought a number of significant milestones, most of them good, to the area covered by The Record, including a couple of noteworthy sports accomplishments, completion of a major highway project, the end of a couple of eras in our history, the celebration of another and possibly the beginning of another of historical proportions.

Looking back at the month of August 2013 Year in Harford County.

Looking back at the month of May 2013 in Harford County

A look back at the month of February 2013 in Harford County.

Looking back at the month of October 2013 in Harford County.

Looking back at the month of November 2013 in Harford County.

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To understand how unevenly the recession and recovery rippled across Maryland, consider its economic extremes.

It was just before Christmas, back in 1889. All was in readiness for the trip down to Bush River Neck and Garretson's Methodist Chapel

Faith Billings broke into tears Tuesday evening as the former Aberdeen High School student described how dealing with bullying during her middle and high school years, plus what she described as an uncaring and hostile high school principal, forced her to drop out of high school and quit the sport she loved, softball.

George H. Lazzaro Jr. was diving at 127 feet to retrieve testing equipment in Aberdeen Proving Ground's Super Pond shortly after 1:30 p.m. last Jan. 30, when he told his dive mates via radio he was "losing air, losing air fast."

Neither snow, nor rain, nor scheduling dilemmas could keep the Candlelight Tour of Havre de Grace from putting on a festive show once again.

The U.S. Army has concluded that the death of a civilian diver at Aberdeen Proving Ground earlier this year was accidental, according to a report obtained by the Associated Press.