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A new quarter depicting fireworks over Fort McHenry was officially launched during a ceremony Friday at the Baltimore landmark as part of the Defenders' Day celebrations. - Fort McHenry celebrates 199th anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore this weekend
- Tyler Muse made his debut on the Wilmington University cross-country team an auspicious one. The former Bel Air High School and HCC standout won the 12th Annual Wilmington Cross-Country Invitational Sep. 7, leading his new team to five-place sweep.
- A five-kilometer walk and run event organized by the Special Olympics of Maryland will close one of two northbound bores of the Fort McHenry Tunnel over the weekend, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.
- The Rev. Mark Stanley loves his work as rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church on North Charles Street, but during his first eight years on the job, he had a problem. The lighting in the historic building was so poor, the color of the walls and ceiling so drab that he could barely make out his congregants from the pulpit.
- Saturday morning (Sept. 7) rise and shine to the Havre de Grace Farmer's Market, 450 Pennington Avenue. Booths set up 9 a.m. to noon.
- With earlier roadway incidents cleared, the state Department of Transportation reported at 9 a.m. on Tuesday that traffic moved without unscheduled road closures.
- A disabled vehicle in Baltimore City on Interstate 95 South at the Fort McHenry Tunnel has blocked one of four tunnel lanes at 9:09 a.m. on Wednesday, according to the state Department of Transportation.
- J. Scott Fuqua draws on his childhood struggles for his acclaimed children's books
- Maryland Historical Society invited public to come in and help sew reproduction of Star Spangled Banner
- According to the Maryland Department of Transportation, there was a disabled vehicle on northbound I-95 prior to the Fort McHenry Tunnel that had one tunnel lane blocked..
- For a variety of reasons, Port Deposit in its bicentennial year may not be much bigger than it was when it started, but it seems to have taken root on the banks of the Susquehanna firmly enough that it will be around, in some form, for the foreseeable future.
- The Old Joppa Road overpass over Interstate 95 suffered minor damage early Tuesday morning after a dump truck traveling north on I-95 crashed into it, forcing Harford County officials to close the overpass for about 10 hours.
- A two-vehicle collision on Interstate 95 North in Baltimore County at the Baltimore Beltway has closed one of two northbound shoulders at 8:26 a.m. on Monday, according to the state Department of Transportation.
- Emergency roadwork on MD 45 South at Beaver Run Lane in Baltimore County has closed one of two southbound traffic lanes and the southbound shoulder at 7:01 a.m., according to the state Department of Transportation.
- One year after Violet Ripken was kidnapped at gunpoint from her Harford County home and driven around the Baltimore region for nearly 24 hours before being returned unharmed, police in her hometown of Aberdeen are still searching for the man responsible.
- The state Department of Transportation reported that an incident in Anne Arundel County on US 50 East at the Oceanic Drive exit has closed one of three eastbound lanes at 8:46 a.m. on Tuesday.
- A coastal flood advisory is in effect through 10 a.m. Tuesday in Baltimore, with a "tidal anomaly" and high winds expected to bring high-tide waters about a foot above their normal level along some shore lines, according to the National Weather Service.
- A disabled vehicle on the inner loop of Interstate 695 in Baltimore County at Reisterstown Road closed one of two inner loop right off-ramp lanes at 8:56 a.m., according to the state Department of Transportation.
- Even though a state project to add express toll lanes to I-95 in Harford County, and possibly build a new park-and-ride lot near the highway interchange with Route 152 (Mountain Road) in the Joppa area, is years away, state transportation officials are continuing their quest for environmental permits.
- Mary Theresa Nipwoda, a lab technician at Aberdeen Proving Ground, did what she could to prepare for the 20-percent pay cut she knew was coming this week.
- David E. Traub, who photographed Baltimore for nearly six decades for the postcard and tourist souvenir business he founded, died of cancer complications Monday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Slade Avenue resident was 91.
- Two businesses in Bel Air recently teamed up to get a special edition Old Glory flying again.
- You might not have heard of Intelect Corp., but you can hear your radio in Baltimore's Harbor and McHenry tunnels thanks to the company's engineering. Intelect CEO Rohit H. Patel chats about his company's growth.
- Data complied by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, found a 43 percent jump in violent incidents against Park Police in 2012. The 100 recorded cases were the most since the advocacy group began tracking such data in 1995.
- Confederate Gen. Lewis Addison Armistead, who was mortally wounded during Pickett's ill-fated charge at Gettysburg, sleeps away the ages in a quiet Baltimore cemetery. And how he came to spend eternity here is somewhat of a mystery.
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- Gov. Martin O'Malley's double-whammy of toll and tax increases will hit Maryland motorists hard.
- Come Monday, driving around Maryland will cost more – both at the gas pump and the toll plaza.
- Maryland drivers are getting ready to head to the emergency room for a transfusion, as Governor O'Malley is sucking their life's blood out of them, or should I say the few dollars they have left in their wallets.
- Thursday morning's commute was virtually event free as the state Department of Transportation reported only one incident that blocked traffic lanes from 7 a.m. to 9:12 a.m.
- Nearly 800,000 Marylanders are expected to travel for the July 4th holiday weekend, about a 1 percent drop from last year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
- An accident involving two tractor trailers and a car that shut down all lanes on Interstate 95 South near Arbutus for four hours on Thursday morning is gradually being cleared, as one of four southbound lanes and one of two southbound shoulders have opened, according to the state Department of Transportation.
- A single-vehicle accident on I-83 South at Ruxton Road in Baltimore County has the right shoulder blocked state highway officials reported around 9:15 a.m.
- Barbara "Babs" Piper, a former Johns Hopkins Medical School administrative assistant, died of complications of acute bipolar disorder Wednesday at her Rodgers Forge home. She was 63.
- As Marylanders prepared for summer vacations, the National Park Service has announced that it no longer needs to furlough U.S. Park Police.
- Readers should be criticizing Congress for enacting the sequester, not Fort McHenry officials for cutting hours.
- Witnesses watched a waterspout zip across the Baltimore harbor Monday, tossing pieces of a warehouse roof into the air, as storms bringing heavy downpours and flooding moved through the region. At least one other tornado was reported in the area.
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- Route 108 in Howard County prior to Snowden River Parkway remained shut down in both directions at 9:10 a.m., on Thursday because of a gas line incident that occurred more than an hour earlier, according to the local fire and rescue officials and the state Department of Transportation.
- Ft. McHenry should leave its grounds open during daylight hours and close the visitors center to deal with budget cuts.
- Opponent's failure to gather enough signatures to bring Maryland's death penalty repeal and gun control legislation to voter referendum next year reveals where voters actually stand on both matters
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- Sequestration should not mean a 25 percent reduction in Fort McHenry's summer hours
- The second day of the week's heat wave reached the low 90s with poor air quality, and conditions are expected to continue through the weekend.
- Two dozen marchers gathered at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore on Sunday to pay tribute to African-American soldiers.
