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It doesn't really come as much of a shock that a small amount of radioactive material turned up in a salvage yard on Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Steven Coale, 34, of North East, received a sentence of three years of supervised probation

School system leaders should begin looking at this situation as an opportunity, rather than a curiosity.

The Army will hold a public information meeting in Edgewood next week to go over its findings in connection with a former salvage site on Aberdeen Proving Ground where a small amount of radioactive material was found beginning in 2009.

The two young children injured in an Aberdeen apartment fire last week have been released from the hospital, the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said Wednesday. The condition of their mother, who was also injured in the fire, was not available on Wednesday.

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A mother and her two young children were seriously injured in an apartment fire in Aberdeen Thursday morning, the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said.

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More than 100 police, fire, first responders, military and civilian personnel participated in a one-day Homeland Security exercise on Feb. 4 at Battelle in Aberdeen

Three recent fires in Joppa, Aberdeen and Bel Air caused more than $45,000 in damages but did not injure anyone, the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said Monday morning.

Harford County officials are preparing to sell $116.9 in bonds on Feb. 19.

The Army is planning to move an over-the-horizon radar system, more than 100 soldiers and a pair of giant, blimp-like aerostats that fly as high as two miles up, to Aberdeen Proving Ground in the fall, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger said Thursday.

The following is the complete text of Harford County Executive David Craig's 2013 State of the County Address delivered at the Harford County Council legislative session on Tuesday, Feb. 5:

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The Army identified the diver who died while working at Aberdeen Proving Ground's "super pond" Wednesday as George H. Lazzaro Jr. from Nottingham in Baltimore County.

The Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground experienced a wastewater treatment plant sewage overflow Thursday, caused by extreme rainfall totaling two inches in 24-hours, the Army said Friday.

Firefighters responded to a fire at an Aberdeen home early Sunday morning.

Professional engineer Thomas M. Wirth has been promoted to vice president of Geo-Technology Associates Inc., a mid-Atlantic geotechnical engineering and environmental consulting firm.

Local efforts to help government contractors navigate the complex world of federal procurement are looking particularly relevant these days with big budget cuts looming.

George H. Lazzaro Jr., an engineering technician in the Firepower Directorate of the Aberdeen Test Center, died while completing routine maintenance at the Underwater Test Facility, a spokeswoman said Friday.

Aberdeen Proving Ground officials are continuing to investigate the death of a person whose body was recovered from an large ordnance testing pond at the Harford County military installation.

How often do we pass one of our Aberdeen public buildings with dates or messages stamped upon their exteriors? Do you wonder how, or why, they are part of the structure

Harford County is bracing for more cold weather this week, as well as the possibility of getting several inches of the white stuff tonight and Friday.

A Joppatowne home was extensively damaged by a fire Wednesday afternoon that investigators believe started in a boat parked next to the dwelling.

For Maryland schools to deserve their No. 1 ranking, they need to improve STEM instruction.

The diversity of the military and of Harford County at large is a sign of how far the country has come since Martin Luther King Jr., made his "I have a dream" speech in 1963, Aberdeen Proving Ground's new commanding general said Thursday.

Aberdeen will soon be just the second jurisdiction on the East Coast to install special pipe-bursting equipment to line its sanitary sewers, Public Works Director Matt Lapinsky said Monday.

Paul Wilson Ramey, a member of the Army Corps of Engineers who was a founder of AIDS Action Baltimore, died of cancer Dec. 29. He was 55 and lived in Hampden.

During an almost eight-week period from early September into early November, nobody died because of an accident on a Harford County highway.

The latest tactic to prevent Harford County government from building and operating a trash transfer station on Route 7 in Joppa, on the property that was once home to a miniature golf operation, is to persuade the county executive and his administration to not include the site in a forthcoming update of the county's solid waste management plan.

Occupants of an Edgewood townhouse escaped without injury Tuesday morning after a fire broke out in the kitchen, according to one of the responding fire companies.

The first big snowfall of 1988 hit Harford County 25 years ago this week, when 6 to 9 inches fell over the area, forcing schools, state offices, businesses and Aberdeen Proving Ground to close

The parishioners at St. George's Spesutia Church weren't celebrating Christmas on Sunday morning, the Rev. Bill Smith told them amid poinsettias and holiday decorations, but rather the Incarnation.

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Aberdeen Proving Ground has a lot more money to spend on contracts than it once did. But not as much as it had in the very recent past. Such is the push-pull effect of gains from the national military base realignment minus tighter federal budgets and less wartime spending.

A fire caused by an unattended candle in a child's bedroom did extensive damage to an Aberdeen home late Saturday night, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office.

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A Cecil County man, James Young Starcher, was charged in connection with five bank robberies committed in the previous two months.

Harford County was getting ready to ring in the new year 25 years ago, when local party stores were packed with customers looking for party supplies to help usher in 1988 in just a few hours

The issue of declining enrollment and increasing cost is one the school system and those who control its funding need to take much more seriously than they have been in recent years.

Harford County firefighters responded to a house on fire in Abingdon Saturday evening that caused about $85,000 in damage to the dwelling and its contents, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office.

The Empty Stocking fund is just $5,000 short of its fund-raising goal of $80,000 this year

Forest Hill volunteer brings Christmas lights to veteran's home

The U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, plans to conduct several large detonations beginning on or about Monday, Dec. 17, and ending on or about Friday, Dec. 21.

A Havre de Grace man, who pleaded guilty to stealing tons of aluminum from Aberdeen Proving Ground when he was employed at the installation, was sentenced to a year of home detention by a federal judge Wednesday.

Concerns about cutbacks in defense spending notwithstanding, there are plenty of business opportunities on the horizon connected to activities at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Last week, more than 1,100 business and economic development representatives from across the country attended the proving ground's first installation-wide Advanced Planning Briefing for Industry, where APG commands presented more than 180 potential contracts worth an estimated $19.5 billion over the next five years.

An alternative suggestion to the proposed waste transfer station for the former Plecker property on Route 7 was presented to the Joppa/Joppatowne Community Council at its monthly meeting last week. Jared Noe, owner of production company Noe Way Out Studios in Baltimore, wants to build an indoor sports arena on the property the Harford County government acquired last year for a future waste transfer station that the community opposes.