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Baltimore plans to pay its speed camera vendor $600,000 to end a troubled relationship that has left the city's once lucrative automated enforcement program offline since April and some members of the City Council questioning whether it's time to pull the plug altogether. -
- If you traveled for Thanksgiving, you'll likely pay more for gas getting home than you did getting away.
- While the number of Marylanders traveling for Thanksgiving this year is expected to be slightly lower this year compared to last year, there will still be hundreds of thousands of people on the roads, rails and in the air.
- Forecasters are keeping an eye on storms in several regions of the U.S. that could dump cold rain or even some snow in the Baltimore-Washington area in the days just before Thanksgiving, potentially complicating plans during the busiest travel time of the year.
- For the first time since the economy tanked and the country went into a recession in 2008, fewer Marylanders are expected to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday than did the previous year.
- Fewer Americans are expected to travel long distances for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday than last year, despite the lowest gas prices in years, AAA predicted Wednesday.
- Students from across the 12 high schools in the Howard County Public School System take part in career academies at the Howard County Applications and Research Laboratory, which has come a long way from its days as a vo-tech center.
- Dundalk should rally against plan to develop North Point Government Center
- Carroll County received positive credit ratings, including one upgrade, from bond rating agencies after the county's annual bond review in New York. Carroll received a AAA rating, the highest possible, from both Fitch Services and Standard and Poor's Rating Service. The county received a Aa1 rating from Moody's Investor Services.
- State and county police are positive about the new cell phone law's first month of implementation
- Proposed 101 York project is exactly what downtown Towson needs. Building a new mixed-use centerpiece on an under-utilized parcel with street level retail and hundreds of new housing units can have a dramatic improvement in Towson's downtown core.
- Five hundred fifty runners and walkers broke records in attendance and in funds raised at the Fifth Annual Heather L. Hurd 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun Walk on Nov. 9 at Harford Community College.
- Average gas prices in Maryland and across the country fell to their lowest level in two years Friday, and are expected to continue dropping through the end of the year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
- More than a quarter of drivers reported "being so tired they had a difficult time keeping their eyes open" while recently behind the wheel, despite most considering the practice "somewhat or completely unacceptable," according to a new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
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- Aiming to boost the fledgling market for plug-in vehicles, Maryland and seven other states pledged Thursday to use their governments' tax and spending powers to get 3.3 million "zero-emission" cars, trucks and vans on the road in the next dozen years.
- Credits for impoverished areas, loans make up incentive package.
- Cargo operations resumed at the port of Baltimore on Friday amid negotiations between a local longshoremen's union — which began striking Wednesday — and port operators.
- You may have noticed the increase in deer activity on your property or near roads in the county. As white-tail deer mating season and colder months approach, officials from the Harford County Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said motorists should take precautions and be on the lookout for deer while driving.
- Several of the Orioles top prospects -- including Jonathan Schoop, Eduardo Rodriguez and Henry Urrutia -- will be playing this offseason in the Arizona Fall League, which begins play on Tuesday.
- A variety of factors have driven down gasoline prices across the state this week, from a stagnant demand to a stable international market — and now the federal shutdown could mean added relief at the pump.
- Olan R. Shively, a retired mechanical engineer who collected vintage Plymouth automobiles, died Thursday of liver cancer at Bonnie Blink, the Maryland Masonic Home in Hunt Valley. He was 88.
- The Orioles have lost four straight after winning four of five.
- A proposed pricing structure for electronic toll lanes set to open next year along Interstate 95 northeast of Baltimore was approved Thursday by the Maryland Transportation Authority Board.
- For the first time on Tuesday, the nation will log 1,000 days straight with an average cost of gasoline at or above $3 per gallon, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
- Baltimore transit gets a big boost with $1.5 billion for Red Line and millions more for rail projects that will help define the city's future
- Steps can be taken to lower car insurance costs for Baltimore drivers
- Joseph G. Finnerty Jr., a highly-regarded trial lawyer who had headed what is now DLA Piper's litigation department and later over saw expansion of the firm to Philadelphia and New York city, died Thursday of Alzheimer's disease at Copper Ridge assisted-living facility in Sykesville. He was 76.
- Needed repairs to aging bridge joints and damaged concrete barriers along large stretches of the Jones Falls Expressway in Baltimore will close a varying number of travel lanes for the next 10 months, city officials said Friday.
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- At Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Island prints and flowy fabrics will dominate many of New York's spring 2014 collections.
- A second fire at a Joppa automotive business in the two weeks has fire investigators asking for the public's help in identifying possible suspicious activities at the property prior to the fires.
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- In state with long history of racing, Grand Prix of Baltimore tries to gain foothold
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- Forecasts of sunny skies are combining with falling gas prices and an apparent "pent-up demand" for a getaway to put Maryland on a course for its busiest Labor Day weekend for travel since the end of the recession.
- An Annapolis High School assistant track and cross country coach was killed in Davidsonville on Wednesday afternoon when the bicycle she was riding made contact with a vehicle, according to Anne Arundel County Police on Thursday.
- 120 years after its invention, the diesel engine, with its increased fuel economy and lower maintenance costs, is coming into its own
- O'Malley has set Maryland on the right path with renewable portfolio standard
- Remington holds a picnic to stress the importance of recycling and hands out bins. The mayor will be there. This is for a story about the community's hot status with a wave of redevelopment planned.
- The port of Baltimore announced a new contract with Japanese automaker Mazda on Tuesday that it said will create 160 new jobs and support hundreds more starting in September.
- James R. "Rudy" Ray Sr., an automobile salesman extraordinaire who was a fixture at Park Circle Motor Co. for nearly two decades, died Tuesday from complications of diabetes at the Envoy Nursing Home in Pikesville. He was 79.
- Teenagers in Maryland and across the country are receiving driver's licenses in fewer numbers than in years past, according to a national study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
- Former motocross rider Justin Boster, a 23-year-old ARCA rookie raised in Baltimore County, is fourth in points heading into Sunday's race in Millville, New Jersey
- John Franzone Jr., founder of a Hunt Valley headquartered plastics manufacturing company who also was a flying and thoroughbred race horsing enthusiast, died Friday from heart failure at his Timonium home. He was 93.
