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- All lanes have been reopened on MD 27 in Westminster on Wednesday morning with the clearing of a two-vehicle collision at Stone Chapel Road, according to the state Department of Transportation.
- Maryland's unemployment rate shot up in July when employers cut 9,000 jobs — one of the largest losses in the country, the federal government said Monday.
- A vigil is held for Rajinder Kumar, the 49-year-old gas station clerk who was shot and killed while working at an Exxon in Hanover on Aug. 7. The case remains unsolved.
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- Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, who was shot to death last week as he visited Afghanistan's national military academy in Kabul, was laid to rest Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery.
- The Anne Arundel County school system is anticipating more than 8,000 county residents to attend back-to-school events that offer resources and information for the upcoming school year.
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- Visitors, employees and neighbors of BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport now have a new option for enjoying the 12.5-mile trail that loops around the airport's Anne Arundel County property.
- Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene had served more than three decades in uniform without a combat tour when he got the assignment last year: He was wanted in Kabul to help train the Afghan National Security Forces.
- While potential cuts of up to nearly 4,300 military and civilian jobs at Aberdeen Proving Ground are far from a done deal, Harford County leaders stressed the need Monday evening for local residents to get an early start on letting the Army know about the impact any such cuts will have on the region's largest employer and on their community.
- About a dozen school children at the Willows Apartments in Glen Burnie queued curbside as the Anne Arundel County school bus pulled up.
- The General Services Administration released a long anticipated list of sites on Tuesday it said could accommodate the FBI's requirements for a new home to replace the 39-year-old J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington. Two of the properties are in Maryland — one in Greenbelt, the other in Landover — and a third is in Springfield, Va.
- Inside Aberdeen Proving Ground, an estimated 21,000 people report to work on any given day, conducting research in massive new federal buildings. But outside the base, gleaming new offices completed in anticipation of economic spillover stand empty, a reminder of growth that has remained tightly contained.
- Maryland's largest and most lucrative casino threw an Independence Day party this month for one of its biggest neighbors: Fort Meade, the massive Army base just five miles down the road.
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- A 32-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after he hit a National Security Agency police officer with his SUV while evading a traffic stop on Route 32 at Fort Meade, Maryland State Police said.
- A decade ago, planners predicted that Laurel would see a surge in its population as civilian and enlisted military personnel, mainly from Virginia, were relocated to Fort Meade under the Base Realignment and Closure Act, or BRAC.
- The Goddard Space Flight Center, which builds spacecraft, instruments and technology to study the Earth, sun, solar system and universe, is working to prepare future aerospace engineers and scientists, said Dean Kern, the institution's deputy director for education.
- The Baltimore area has an outsized share of job openings in fields that make heavy use of science, technology, engineering or math skills, occupations that pay more and are harder for employers to fill, according to a new analysis.
- The primary election results are in, and – despite an unusually numerous field of new, untested candidates – didn't yield many election-night surprises or upsets.
- Members of Cadette Girl Scout Troop 4503, seventh graders from Folly Quarter Middle School, have spent the last two years working on their Silver Journey and their Silver Project of Helping the Military, and have finally earned their Silver Award.
- State is investing wisely in innovation, research and entrepreneurship for the 21
- The last time the military consolidated, Maryland's installations grew. But base realignment and closure usually goes the other way — and the Army is calling for another round. Officials in Maryland aren't waiting to see what happens. They're already preparing.
- The Army is planning to launch a pair of blimps over Maryland this fall to watch the Eastern Seaboard for incoming cruise missiles. It's what else they might be able to see from up there that worries privacy advocates.
- Maryland's unemployment rate ticked upward as employers shed 1,300 jobs in May, the U.S. Department of Labor estimated Friday.
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- The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, which supplies water to Prince George's and Montgomery counties, is under fire from many in Laurel for opening all seven floodgates of the T. Howard Duckett Dam April 30 following days of heavy rain.
- In a nasty Republican primary, veteran Del. Steve Schuh has the edge over incumbent Laura Neuman because of his vision for Anne Arundel's future.
- While most of Howard's state legislative races this primary season are packed with candidates vying for a chance to head to Annapolis, the county's council races have been relatively uneventful, with one notable exception.
- Five of the seven seats on the Anne Arundel County Council have contested primaries this year.
- Latest report shows state's lackluster GDP is not the fault of high taxes or regulations but reduced federal government spending
- The Goldstar Group, a Bethesda-based private investment firm, today purchased the 300-unit Shelter Cove Apartments in Odenton for approximately $43 million.
- With veterans health care services in the forefront of the news, I am reminded of my recent sighting of an unusually decorated car driving in front of me on Route 32 as I approached Route 198, near Fort Meade. The car had lettering all over it, posters and American flags flying. I got close enough to read at least two of its messages: "I am driving to 49 U.S. states." and "Veteran Awareness Mission."
- Anne Arundel Community College student Ethan Dietrich plans to make his idea for a technology company a reality through his energy, adaptability and passion ¿ and a little help from mentors and investors at the TechStars Patriot Boot Camp at Goldman Sachs in New York.
- County and state officials on Monday broke ground on the first step of a $180 million mixed-use project that will bring housing, office and retail space to a plot of land next to the Savage MARC station in Howard County.
- Maryland developers are once again digging into plans to build near rail stations, a sign that the appetite for development projects focused on transit may be starting to return.
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- Few locally remember the Linthicum native who was the first ashore for the D-Day invasion
