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Vehicles will soon start rolling off ships at the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County.

Sparrows Point Terminal, the Hanover-based firm that owns the site of the former steel mill, has changed its name to Tradepoint Atlantic, a move the company hopes will enhance its global appeal but that evokes feelings of loss.

The developers of the old steel mill at Sparrows Point have rebranded their project as "Tradepoint Atlantic" in hopes of appealing to international companies.

The new owners of the shuttered Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County said Thursday that potential tenants are "banging down our door" for the opportunity to move to the site.

Timothy R. Wright, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. supervisor and World War II veteran, died Oct. 5 at his Lochearn home of undetermined causes. He was 96.

Baby screech owls found in the wild are taken to Phoenix Wildlife Center for care and eventual release.

Russell R. Jones, former general manager of Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point plant, died Wednesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care of heart failure. He was 90.

William A. Fogle Jr., who had been Mayor William Donald Schaefer's executive assistant and all-purpose trouble shooter and later was secretary of the Maryland Department of Licensing and Regulation, died Wednesday at his Glen Rock, Pa., farm of complications of a stroke. He was 79.

With this week's announcement of a new, locally backed ownership group for Sparrows Point — Sparrows Point Terminal LLC — I believe we finally have within our grasp a real opportunity for job redevelopment

State and federal environmental officials have reached cleanup agreements with the owners of the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County.

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Helena E. Wright, a retired city elementary school teacher who was an active member of Heritage United Church of Christ, died Aug. 18 at her Lochearn home of complications from heart disease. She was 93.

County Executive Kevin Kamenetz has appointed a task force to try and create a profitable future for the land that once held a thriving steel mill.

Fans make pilgrimages to this Stewart's franchise on Pulaski Highway, the truck-battered stretch of U.S. 40 in eastern Baltimore County, to recall the food experiences of their youth.

James J. Connolly, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. manager, died July 4 of liver cancer at his Towson home. He was 85.

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Helen Delich Bentley sets the record straight on Sparrows Point jobs.

The owner of the Sparrows Point steel mill could be selling a "significant percentage" of its stake in the property to local buyers, raising hopes for its eventual redevelopment.

Peter Allen Denzer, founder of Peter's Inn in Fells Point and avid motorcycle enthusiast, died June 30

John W. Trageser Jr., a retired mechanical engineer who headed a contracting firm, died of cancer Sunday at his Lutherville home. He was 88.

Dundalk redevelopment hinges on the creation of well-paying jobs more than anything else

In a new marketing campaign, the Dundalk Renaissance Corp. touts the community's 43 miles of waterfront, its history and its proximity to city attractions: It's a 10-minute drive to the Canton Crossing retail development, 15 to Camden Yards.

The roofs in the new development in Southeast Baltimore aren't all finished, and city officials aren't quite sure what to call it, but they turned out in force on Wednesday to celebrate the first apartments completed on land that once held the sprawling O'Donnell Heights public housing complex.

Baltimore County officials on Wednesday released three 911 calls from the building collapse at the demolition site at the former steel mill at Sparrows Point this week.

Nine workers were hospitalized Monday after the roof gave way on a building at the former steel mill in Sparrows Point, disrupting work on the lengthy dismantling of the Baltimore County industrial complex.

Ray W. Kauffman, who owned and operated E.J. Codd machine shop in Southeast Baltimore, died of sarcoma complications April 28 at Gilchrist Hospice Center in Towson. The lifelong Roland Park resident was 88.

E. Brent Snodgrass, Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s former regional director of public and political affairs who later established a public relations firm in Florida, died April 1 of complications from dementia at his Tampa home. He was 85.

From the Boston Cannons to Baltimore Lutheran, John Tucker's lacrosse coaching career currently spans an extreme gamut from the men's professional Major League Lacrosse to the girls Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland C Conference.

Street resident Bruce Kabernagel lives on an unpaved county road that he said is literally falling apart and is an unlikely candidate for being paved over any time soon, but considering the historical value of his neighborhood, he wouldn't live anywhere else.

William Kenneth "Mac" McCardell, a retired United States Fidelity and Guaranty insurance executive and World War II veteran, died of congestive heart failure March 31 at the Stella Maris Rehabilitation Center. The Mays Chapel resident was 92.

Workers at Sparrows Point imploded one of the buildings at the closed steel plant Friday, causing a loud boom that was heard in nearby Dundalk, Baltimore County Police said.

John H. Tierney, former head of the Travelers Insurance Co.'s Baltimore engineering department and a World War II veteran, died Feb. 24 of complications from a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 90.

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Afaa Michael Weaver, a Baltimore native who once worked at Bethlehem Steel and Proctor & Gamble, has won one the country's most poetry prizes.

State environmental regulators say they are drafting a settlement with the owners of the Sparrows Point peninsula and a contractor after finding multiple alleged violations at the former steelmaking site.

Dr. Thomas R. Foster Jr., a retired Baltimore City public schools deputy superintendent who co-authored math textbooks, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Sunday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Parkville resident was 82.

Building on the Dream Act approved by voters in 2012, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Anthony G. Brown proposed Thursday that Maryland provide low-interest college loans to the children of immigrants who are in the country illegally.

Gubernatorial candidate Douglas Gansler unveiled his jobs plan Thursday with a focus on bringing back manufacturing jobs, establishing a portal were academics and business workers can exchange ideas and offering incentives for small business owners to create jobs.

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