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Friday is expected to be drizzly and foggy in the morning before becoming mostly cloudy for the remainder of the day.

This year's Memorial Day ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens will be the first since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the start of the long wars in Afghanistan in Iraq, in which there is no new Marylander killed overseas to add to the rolls.

Alan Walden, the former WBAL radio anchor, has been emceeing the Memorial Day event at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens for 25 years and is a huge supporter of the military. He lives in Cross Keys.

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.

Flag maker Mary Pickersgill's household included a slave and a 13-year-old African-American indentured servant

A highlight of the exhibit, which explores Americans' relationship with the flag, is a mural created by the artist Sheila Pree Bright of 15 portraits of Baltimoreans posing with Old Glory

Two people were injured in a motor vehicle crash on southbound I-95 past exit 74.

The Baltimore Visitor Center on Tuesday launched "The Baltimore Experience" video, a 10-minute interactive production using projection mapping technology to give visitors a multi-dimensional view of the city.

Baltimore's railroad legacy has ebbed over time as Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was subsumed and its successor CSX Transportation moved south. Residents and local officials say the city's prominence in the railroad industry crumbled alongside the aging tunnels, overpasses and tracks that convey trains through city neighborhoods every day.

What a weekend in Havre de Grace!

The Women's 5K by the Bay retained an international theme for its eighth annual running in Havre de Grace Sunday.

Thousands of people will flock to Havre de Grace this weekend for one of the biggest events of the year.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Tuesday at Fort McHenry the schedule of events for Star-Spangled Summer, the sprawling, noisy, multimillion-dollar celebration the city will host through September to commemorate the 200th birthday of the National Anthem.

The fish kill affecting Baltimore Harbor and the Patapsco River appears to be over, according to a spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment. But state biologists are still unclear why an estimated 7,000 fish turned belly up so early in the year.

"The face of lower Ellicott City is in for a change; a change that will hopefully bring tourists into our historical town and will usher in a new burst of economic potential.

To combat pollution plaguing the marsh habitat, about 250 volunteers picked up trash, dredged debris, planted trees and tended the wetland's gardens Saturday as part of a cleanup event hosted by the aquarium and the National Parks Conservation Association.

Archaeologists have uncovered a wall of that structure as they embark on a dig for more understanding of what happened when thousands of militiamen camped along the hills of southeast Baltimore during the War of 1812.

This schedule will be in effect Friday, April 18

A collision with injury on Interstate 70 East in Ellicott City at U.S. 40 has closed both eastbound right off-ramp lanes at 8:47 a.m. on Wednesday, according to the state Department of Transportation.

By implementing a program that will sweep more than 76,000 additional miles of city streets without adding to the annual street-sweeping budget, Mayor Rawlings-Blake has shown a refreshing propensity for innovation that should be applauded and encouraged. Moving your car twice a month so that your street can be swept is a minor inconvenience. As people who live or work in Baltimore, we should all be asking ourselves what more can we do to help clean up our city.

A fledgling nonprofit wants to transform the old Peale Museum into a hub celebrating Baltimore history and architecture with exhibits, a cafe, a lecture hall and office space.

All lanes have been reopened on Interstate 95 South in Baltimore City with the clearing of a two-vehicle collision with injury at Caton Avenue on Friday morning that shut down all but the southbound left shoulder for more than two hours, state transportation officials said.

Baltimore's celebration of the "Star-Spangled Banner" bicentennial will be broadcast live on PBS Sept. 13.

Archaeologists this week have been probing Patterson Park with radar and other technology for signs the a War of 1812 Battle of Baltimore in preparation for digs in April and May.

Pride of Baltimore II brings replica of the Star Spangled Banner flag to Annapolis

The Pride of Baltimore II and a replica of the flag that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner" will be the focus of Maryland Day celebrations in Baltimore and Annapolis on March 25, according to the Maryland Historical Society.

A major construction project on Interstate 95, set to begin Sunday, will impact traffic in Baltimore for the next two years — shifting and narrowing lanes and forcing ramp closures and detours.

Anne Arundel County Police on Friday morning reported a fatal pedestrian crash in Glen Burnie on MD 2 at Marley Station Road.

Almost 7 million people visited national parks in Maryland in 2012, generating some $217.2 million in spending and 2,770 jobs, according to the National Park Service.

All northbound traffic lanes and the northbound left shoulder on Interstate 95 in Baltimore City have been closed at the Dundalk Avenue exit due to a single vehicle crash at 11:16 a.m., according to the state Department of Transportation.

New artistic director Arian Khaefi programs music reflecting city's history, diversity

A single-vehicle crash on MD 175 in Fort Meade at MD 32 (Savage Road) has closed the southbound right traffic lane and southbound shoulder at 8:56 a.m. on Thursday, according to the state Department of Transportation.

KeyCam, one of two sites unveiled Tuesday, offers views of Fort McHenry from where Francis Scott Key would have been standing

A three-vehicle collision in Annapolis on Interstate 97 South at U.S. 50 has closed both southbound shoulders at 8:44 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the state Department of Transportation.

With the clearing of an accident with injury in Parkville on the inner loop of Interstate 695 at Harford Road, state and local transportation departments reported no unscheduled road closures at 9:05 a.m. on Tuesday.

A disabled vehicle in Baltimore City on Interstate 95 South at the Keith Avenue exit has closed the southbound right lane at 8:56 a.m. on Monday, according to the state Department of Transportation.