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WV Urban Development is forced out by land owner Bruce Mortimer as developer of 25th Street Station mixed-use project at 25th and Howard streets in Remington. Seawall Development looks likely to be taking over.

WV Urban Development is forced out by land owner Bruce Mortimer as developer of 25th Street Station mixed-use project at 25th and Howard streets in Remington. Seawall Development looks likely to be taking over.

After an unusually cold and snowy winter, many Marylanders are expected to take advantage of the sun forecast for this holiday weekend by getting out of town.

In reconstructing the events that led to a fatal crash on Anne Arundel County's Route 3 last spring, investigators obtained key evidence from a source most people probably don't know even exists: an air bag control module.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for Howard County and the surrounding region Friday as heavy rainfall soaks the area.

Two Bel Air men have been charged with theft for allegedly stealing rims, tires, a tool chest and other automotive supplies from a Fallston car dealership, Maryland State Police said Thursday.

"The Studebaker automobile offered by the Times as first prize in the big subscription contest which closed at eight o'clock last Saturday night was won by H.E. Phelps, of Glenelg.

Seeing benefits of two tags in 1946

In Harford County Saturday, you could spend your day hunting Easter eggs, flying kites buying the first locally grown produce of the spring or, if your interests lean toward custom, super stock and classic vehicles, you could visit the third annual Romancing the Chrome show in Jarrettsville.

The port of Baltimore handled more cargo containers, automobiles and wood pulp in 2013 than ever before, a record-setting performance despite ongoing labor unrest on its public docks.

GM sat by for the loss of 13 lives over a $2 part?

The Maryland General Assembly approved legislation Thursday that will provide new protections for motorists from erroneous tickets and other speed camera abuses, sending the bill to the governor for his expected signature.

After a driver from Green's Garage stopped on the shoulder of Interstate 795 in Reisterstown in January to help a motorist, she ended up needing a tow truck herself.

Gas prices in Maryland reached a six-month high of $3.54 per gallon on Friday, a price last seen at local pumps in September, according to AAA.

Action at rink leads to arrest of 21 demonstrators in Catonsville

Police said at approximately 3:36 p.m., officers responded to the 6900 block of Annapolis Rock Road in Damascus for the report of a personal injury collision. Police said the preliminary investigation revealed a 2005 Mercedes-Benz ML500 (SUV) was traveling east bound on Annapolis Rock Road when it made a right turn into a private driveway. Police said as the SUV was making the turn into the driveway, a 2007 Honda 1000RR motorcycle, traveling east bound on Annapolis Rock Road, collided into the back of the Mercedes.

The Baltimore school board approved Tuesday a four-year contract for Gregory Thornton, the Milwaukee administrator introduced last month as the next superintendent of the school system.

The U.S. Department of Justice has identified and begun targeting a broad conspiracy to fix prices on automobile shipments out of Baltimore and other U.S. ports, with a Chilean company recently pleading guilty to violating federal antitrust laws in the scheme.

if the ratings are good and getting better, that's a positive development.

Piper Jaffray was the winning bidder in Harford County's $40 million bond sale Tuesday, offering a 3.0465 percent interest rate to beat out 11 other bidders.

Pnina Wilkins, an interior designer who was a past president of Hadassah, died Feb. 22 of heart failure at Seasons Hospice in Randallstown. She was 90.

Richard A. Hartman, former president and CEO of the Automobile Club of Maryland who fought at the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, died Feb. 28 of complications from cancer and renal failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 91.

Last spring, the Harford Tech girls lacrosse team had a good season, so good they ended up as the top team in the Susquehanna Division of the Harford and Cecil high school athletic league known as the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference.

Harford County government announced it has received top ratings from the nation's three major municipal bond rating agencies in advance of a $40 million bond sale scheduled for March 11.

For the seventeenth year in a row, Howard County has earned a AAA bond rating from all of the "big three" ratings agencies.

First the port of Baltimore's ongoing labor dispute heated up with a strike, then it was "cooling off" under arbitration, and now it's just simmering with uncertainty — to the benefit of no one, port observers say.

Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp and Comptroller Peter Franchot warned senators Wednesday that Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposal to divert $100 million a year from the state pension fund to next year's budget threatens the long-term health of the retirement system.

The Abell Foundation has invested $25 million in Paice, a Baltimore firm that invented a way to improve the performance of combined gas/electric engines, and has spent years fighting automakers in court over the use of what its alleges is its technology.

It was a dead rat the detective found on his windshield of his Toyota Corolla on a fall morning, the corpse peeking out from under the windshield wiper — a sign, he thought, that his colleagues in the department saw him as a snitch.

Maryland speed camera programs came under scrutiny in Annapolis and Baltimore Tuesday, with the General Assembly considering reforms ranging from a ban of the so-called "bounty system" to levying heavy fines against operators that issue erroneous tickets. Meanwhile, a city councilman leading an investigation into a secret audit of Baltimore's speed camera system said the administration has agreed to turn over hundreds of pages of documents..

Franklin S. Dail Sr., a retired general Motors executive who enjoyed tennis and running, died Thursday of pneumonia at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 82.

Harford County officials plan to postpone by a month a planned sale of bonds to finance two key public safety-related projects and other capital improvements.

Accessible vehicles, not concept cars, dominate

As many refineries slow production of gasoline in February as they conduct seasonal maintenance, gas prices are likely to rise in Maryland and across the country, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.

Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to divert pension savings to the general fund is unfair to workers and potentially harmful to Md.'s fiscal health.

More people called AAA Mid-Atlantic for emergency roadside assistance in January than in any previous month on record, the organization said Monday.

Legislative reforms are desperately needed to address issues with Maryland's speed camera programs in school zones, particularly in Baltimore city, where the problems have been so pervasive and so well-documented that the system has been suspended since April.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake offered a new reason Wednesday for why her administration never acted on the results of an audit that found a high error rate in tickets from Baltimore's speed camera system: The national engineering firm the city paid to do it was "not sufficiently qualified" to do a thorough report.

Children in 2014 have an array of sophisticated electronic toys and games at their disposal, but on Saturday, the attention of two groups of boys and girls was captured by simple wooden cars, which they made, racing on a short track.

A developer wants to buy city-owned property near the Fairfield Marine Terminal to turn it into more parking for the port of Baltimore's thriving automobile industry.

Driver advocacy group AAA Mid-Atlantic and some lawmakers urged local governments to conduct audits of their speed camera programs Thursday after learning that a secret audit last year of Baltimore's program documented far higher error rates than previously disclosed.

Despite assurances from labor and management officials at the port of Baltimore that their ongoing contract dispute will not result in a strike or lockout, business at the city's public terminals is slowing.

Despite assurances from labor and management officials at the port of Baltimore that their ongoing contract dispute will not result in a strike or lockout, business at the city's public terminals is slowing.

Members of a local longshoremen union "resoundingly rejected" what has been described as a "best and final" contract offer from employers at the port of Baltimore on Monday night, according to the union president.

Members of a local longshoremen union that went on strike in October, crippling the port of Baltimore for days, will meet Monday to discuss a new contract offer from the port's employers.

City parking tickets are an unfair burden that keeps burdening

For the fourth straight year, Americans will wake up on New Year's Day to record high gas prices — but don't take that as an indicator of how the new year will play out at the pump.

From now until New Year's Day, nearly 2 million Marylanders are expected to hit the road, catch flights and settle into train cars en route to holiday destinations, about the same number as made trips last year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic. But who is traveling and where they are headed is changing, officials say, along with America's evolving demographics.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake pledged Wednesday to move forward with a new but smaller speed camera system despite the spate of problems that plagued Baltimore's last two speed camera vendors. She spoke after officials voted to terminate the most recent contract for running the city's system, once the largest in North America.