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This month, Baltimore confirmed its desire to replace its waterfront volleyball courts with a park-topped parking lot. How many cities want to turn their highly-popular waterfront area into a parking lot, removing a key discriminator between themselves and other cities trying to recruit young professionals and spending $32 million to do it?

A disabled vehicle on Interstate 95 South in Baltimore City at the O'Donnell Street exit has closed the southbound right traffic lane and southbound right shoulder at 7:38 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Emergency roadwork on northbound Loch Raven Boulevard in Towson at Mussula Road has closed the northbound left traffic lane at 9:02 a.m. on Monday, according to the state Department of Transportation.

All northbound traffic on MD 7 in Joppatowne is closed at Joppa Farm Road due to emergency roadwork at 8:26 a.m. on Friday, according to the state Department of Transportation.

All eastbound lanes are closed on U.S. 40 in Marriottsville due to a two-vehicle collision on Marriottsville Road at 8:35 a.m. on Thursday, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Baltimore commuters take heart: Some of the frustration felt in recent weeks on major arteries to downtown will soon come to an end.

All westbound traffic has been shut down for two hours on MD 103 in Elkridge on Wednesday morning due to emergency roadwork at Magnolia Avenue, according to the state Department of Transportation.

A five-vehicle collision on the Baltimore Washington Parkway South in Hanover at Interstate 195 has closed the southbound left shoulder at 8:19 a.m., according to the state Department of Transportation.

All traffic is shut down on MD 178 in Crownsville due to a single-vehicle crash at Paul Birch Drive at 7:50 a.m. on Monday, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Attendance at Maryland's national parks, including at Baltimore's Ft. McHenry, dropped in 2013, thanks in part to a shutdown of the federal government that closed the parks, officials said.

A three-vehicle collision at Bore 1 of the southbound Fort McHenry Tunnel has closed the tunnel lane at 9:06 a.m. on Friday, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Emergency roadwork on MD 147 South in Parkville at Putty Hill Avenue has closed the southbound right traffic lane and southbound right exit at 8:48 a.m. on Thursday, according to the state Department of Transportation.

Heavy delays began stacking up on southbound Interstate 95 north of the Fort McHenry Tunnel on Wednesday afternoon after a tractor trailer overturned across the roadway, closing all lanes.

A two-vehicle collision on Interstate 95 South in Baltimore City at the Fort McHenry toll plaza has closed southbound toll lanes 18-19 for more than three hours after the state Department of Transportation first reported the incident at 5:18 a.m. on Wednesday.

Several toll lanes on southbound Interstate 95 prior to the Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore were closed Tuesday afternoon after a tractor trailer collided with a pick-up truck at one of the toll entrances.

A disabled vehicle on Interstate 795 North past the MD 940 (Owings Mills Boulevard) exit has closed the northbound left shoulder at 8:25 a.m. on Friday, according to the state Department of Transportation.

The 150th anniversary of Major Harry Gilmor's "Great Train Raid" of the Civil War will be remembered with a bus tour retracing his route from Towson to Aberdeen.

. Do you know the importance of Mary and Caroline Pickersgill? The fourth grade students at West Friendship Elementary do; they learned in a very hands-on manner this year.

The July 4 2014 Independence Day events in Bel Air offered fun, patriotic splendor, and educational interest to the entire region.

It's a big year at Fort McHenry, which will celebrate the bicentennial of the national anthem in September

Parades, fireworks other Independence Day events coming to Bel Air, Kingsville, Havre de Grace, Joppatowne

Groups and special events taking place at Howard County library branches

With Independence Day falling on a Friday this year, many Marylanders are gearing up to travel and take advantage of the entire weekend to celebrate, according to Christine Delise, public affairs specialist for AAA Mid-Atlantic.

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley was in New Hampshire on Friday to rub shoulders with influential Democrats in the early-voting state as he begins to test the waters for a presidential run in 2016.

Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville marks the 200th anniversary of the day the Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key.

Pickersgill Retirement Community is marking Flag Day, June 13 by flying more than 200 American flags and songs and readings by West Towson Elementary School students.

It's not too late to join in the celebration of "200 Star Spangled Years" in Bel Air, but time is growing short to submit an application to be part of the 2014 Bel Air Independence Day Parade.

Four traffic lanes will be split on I-95 near Caton Avenue.

Events scheduled throughout the summer to commemorate Maryland's pivotal role in the War of 1812

All northbound traffic is closed on Interstate 95 in Edgewood due to police activity past the MD 543 exit at 9:05 a.m. on Thursday, according to the state Department of Transportation.