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• Opinion

Building 'green' still makes sense for Md.

The value of constructing energy efficient, low-polluting buildings outweighs their cost.

• Opinion

Marsden: Misguided Russian sanctions will harm Western economies

Someone needs to explain why the Washington establishment wants to upchuck all over America's best interests with the Russia sanctions legislation.

• Business

Little known Cockeysville plant produces powerful batteries for satellites, military and race cars

While many Americans may not be concerned with how their DirecTV or XM satellite radio makes it to their home or car, this is the daily burden of engineers and technicians at Saft, a company in Cockeysville that develops some of the nation's most high-tech batteries for use in communications satellites, weather balloons, rocket ships, military Humvees and tanks and even Formula One race cars

By Meredith Cohn

Jun 15, 2017

• Laurel Leader

Laurel flight attendant adds a down-home style to the skies

When she's winging it, Beverly Bleything finds herself in the limelight. The South Laurel resident, a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines, is a magnet for commentary from curious passengers whose safety, first and foremost, she is there to emphasize and re-emphasize.

• Opinion

The increasing irrelevance of corporate nationality [Commentary]

The U.S. should create incentives for any company -- American or not -- to do what we'd like it to do here

• Opinion

The increasing irrelevance of corporate nationality [Commentary]

• Opinion

The GOP is divided over 'Ex-Im' [Commentary]

• Baltimore City Paper

WaPo reports on America's Craziest Drone Accidents

• Baltimore City Paper

Fly in a B-17? Why Not?

• Phoenix (music group)

Maryland company helping in search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Two weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished, as the search zone narrowed to the western Indian Ocean, the U.S. Navy turned to a contractor in Prince George's County — one of few organizations in the world capable of assisting.

• Educators

Incentives paying off for students in AP program in Harford

• Opinion

Movie, TV business decamping from Hollywood

The film and television industry is abandoning California for states and countries that offer better incentives

• Baltimore County

North Pole fantasy flight lifts spirits of ill and disabled children [Column]

Fantasy Flight at Dulles held each December by United Airlines across the country to which Children's Hospice International invites sick and disabled children

• Air Transportation Disasters

Families return to Maryland to remember Pan Am Flight 214

Pan Am Flight 214 exploded over Elkton 50 years ago Sunday, and was Maryland's largest loss-of-life disaster in history.

• Harford

Charm City Concierge to support tenants within The Gate at APG

St. John Properties, Inc. has selected Charm City Concierge to support the approximately 45 companies situated within The Government and Technology Enterprise (The GATE) project, with a full complement of business and personal concierge services.

• Jobs and Workplace

Baltimore-based flight attendant leading Southwest contract negotiations

Audrey Stone, 36, doesn't hesitate when asked how long current contract negotiations will last between Southwest Airlines and the flight attendants union she leads. "As long as it takes," she says on a recent morning in a small cafe in Baltimore — a city she has called home since 2004.

• Air Transportation Disasters

Recalling hard landing at BWI in 2009

In its forced retirement, the Boeing DC-10 sits just off a main runway at BWI Marshall Airport, a grim reminder of the slim margin between a successful landing and a tragic one.

• BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport

Recalling hard landing at BWI in 2009

• Health

Obama delays health care law provision for businesses

The Obama administration plans to postpone a key requirement of the president's health law, delaying until 2015 penalties on large employers that don't offer health coverage.

• Travel

Southwest, BWI aim for international flights

With the unveiling this week of blueprints for a $156 million international terminal at Houston's Hobby International Airport, Southwest signaled its commitment to go beyond its domestic low-cost image and get into the global game. Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, the third-busiest for Southwest and top performer on the East Coast, is ready to be part of that commitment.

• Military Equipment

F-35's manufacturers put civilians in 'cockpit'

Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin and its partners bring an F-35 "cockpit demonstrator" to the Baltimore area to show elected officials and the media what the fighter jet can do — a counter to years of stories and Congressional hearings about delays, technical problems and massive cost overruns.

• Politics and Government

Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings

Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about steep impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result.

• Baltimore City Paper

Following the path of drones from Obama's hit list to Johns Hopkins University

• Entertainment

All of Howard County is a stage in new theater season

If you're not quite ready to head indoors for the fall, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has just the show for you. Think of it as a way to partake of an early offering in the new theater season in Howard County while watching that show under the stars.

• Obituaries

Margaret B. Tyler, customer service rep

Former Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customer service representative died Aug. 5 from complications of dementia at Cadia Rehabilitation in Millsboro, Del. She was 96.

• Military Equipment

Maryland sees a future in drones

Manufacturers such as AAI and Lockheed Martin, research at Johns Hopkins, the University of Maryland and other institutions, and testing and development at Aberdeen Proving Ground and Patuxent River have combined to make Maryland a center of the burgeoning drone industry.

• Highway and Road Transportation

Maryland braces for Memorial Day travelers

The Bay Bridge is the largest potential bottleneck for the Memorial Day weekend, with more than 1.8 million motorists expected to swarm Maryland toll facilities from Friday to Monday as part of the unofficial start of summer.

• Education

Havre de Grace, Aberdeen high schools get AP grant

Harford County Public Schools is "very pleased and very proud" that Aberdeen and Havre de Grace high schools are the first schools in the county to be involved in the National Math and Science Initiative's grant program for military families, school officials said Monday.

• Education

Aberdeen and Havre de Grace high schools to be part of AP grant initiative

Aberdeen and Havre de Grace high schools will receive a grant for advanced placement and training from NMSI, Boeing and the Department of Defense Education Activity

• Features

What's orange, wet and Duff Goldman's nemesis? Sunny-D

Baltimore's Ace of Cakes doesn't much care for a certain orange beverage

• Business

Southwest takes off with new jet

Southwest rolls out its new Boeing 737-800 series jet with fanfare at BWI.

• Maryland

Southwest to launch new, and improved, jets this month

BWI will be one of the first airports to get new jets from Southwest.

• Opinion

Obama has betrayed liberals

The president has let down progressives too many times and no longer deserves support

• House Building

Another building under way at APG office park

St. John Properties, Inc. has initiated construction on 6190 Guardian Gateway, a new three-story, 75,000 square foot Class "A" office building located within The Government and Technology Enterprise project, a 416-acre business community located inside Aberdeen Proving Ground.

• Business

St. John has started new building in APG office park

Baltimore developer St. John Properties Inc. has started the 10th building in an office park inside the grounds of Aberdeen Proving Ground to meet strong demand driven by federal base realignment.

• Latest

For second year in a row, BWI sets passenger record

For second year in a row, BWI sets passenger record in 2011.

• Obituaries

Lloyd Pearson, Sun photographer

Lloyd Pearson, a veteran Baltimore Sun photographer whose iconic image of Mayflower Moving Co. vans rolling the Baltimore Colts out of town in a midnight snowstorm earned him lasting fame, died New Year's Day from complications of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 90.

• Opinion

Big bomb is troubling addition to U.S. arsenal

Big bomb is troubling addition to U.S. arsenal

• Sports

Ravens will need poise in the noise at NFL's loudest stadium

• Business

BWI plans second direct connection to Europe

BWI will add a second connection to Europe next summer when Germany's Condor Airlines launches twice-a-week service to Frankfurt.

• Opinion

You want jobs? Here's a better plan

Instead of spending more tax dollars and increasing the federal deficit, the U.S. should take steps to actually fix the tax code and encourage private investment

• September 11 Attacks

Edgewood survivor of 9/11 attacks remembers the day 10 years later

Ten years ago Amy Andrews narrowly escaped the heart of the 9/11 attacks with her life, today…

• Travel

BWI to close two runways for maintenance this weekend

• Transportation Disasters and Accidents

One twin's escape from the Twin Towers

Chris Cordisco has never told his story from the morning of Sept. 11 before, but 10 years later, he is ready, he said.

• Baltimore City Paper

Bill Doyle believes that Saudi Arabia bankrolled the Sept. 11 attacks, and despite U.S. government opposition, he hopes to prove it

• Business

BRAC brings boost, but less than expected, for many in Harford

BRAC brings boost, but less than expected, for many

• Business

Tax-free shopping: Who benefits?

Tax free shopping is good for Maryland shoppers, but not for state revenue.

• Crime

Harford County Police Blotter

A list of people arrested by Harford County law enforcement over the past few days

• Business

Lost 'Fortune'

The announcement this week that Chicago-based Exelon Corp. has struck a deal to take over Constellation came as something of a psychic blow. If the $7.9 billion deal is approved, and the parent of local utility BGE is absorbed , then Baltimore will lose its sole remaining Fortune 500 headquarters.

• BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport

'Relatively minor' BWI disruptions as Southwest grounds planes