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- A likely tornado tore through an campground at the southern tip of the Delmarva peninsula Thursday, killing up to three people and injuring as many as 20 as it overturned vehicles and downed trees, officials said.
- Instead of doing flips on a balance beam, she now uses her 5-foot-2 frame to squat 200 pounds.
- Kim Martini, head of business development, moved to Baltimore from Virginia in 2012, sent by the company to build relationships in what company officials saw as a relatively busier market.
- Revisionist history won't solve the problems of today
- Thomas Saunders of Renaissance Productions and Tours been leading groups on tours around Baltimore to sites that have significance in African-American history.
- The mother of a 3-year-old boy killed in a northeastern Pennsylvania helicopter crash last month filed the first lawsuit in the accident Friday, seeking unspecified damages from two aviation companies and the pilot's estate.
- Two men were killed and two others rescued when their 28-foot catamaran capsized off the coast of Ocean City on Monday morning, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.
- Authorities called off the search late Sunday for the pilot of a small plane that crashed and sank about a half-mile off the shore of Ocean City on Sunday afternoon.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley's bill has passed the General Assembly, but daunting regulatory, political and financial hurdles remain before a wind-driven power plant could be built in the water 10 miles from Ocean City.
- Eleven years ago, Navy Capt. Barbara "Bobbie" Scholley dived more than 230 feet into the ocean to help bring back the past: two sailors killed aboard their sunken Civil War battleship in 1862.
- Could Virginia move give O'Malley political cover?
- SKW Constructors plans to hire up to 100 people to construct concrete tubes and fans at the Sparrows Point Shipyard and Industrial park in Dundalk, according to Baltimore County economic development officials.
- Matt Bracken rounds up the latest Maryland Terps recruiting news.
- Federal mediators will try to restart stalled talks between dockworkers, employers to avoid first strike in 35 years.
- Federal mediators will try to restart stalled talks between dockworkers, employers to avoid first strike in 35 years.
- Lt. Christopher Aaron Petersen wed Megan Elise Lawn April 20, 2012 in Rose Valley, Pa.
- History Matters: Good fences made for good neighbors in 1912
- Civil War: Museum marks USS Monitor's 150th anniversary
- Military bomb disposal teams have detonated the vintage munitions. The Army Corps of Engineers is combing land records and military archives to determine how they got here. The Maryland Park Service has closed Newtowne Neck until further notice.
- Local governments have great leeway to decide on Chesapeake Bay pollution reduction strategies that are efficient and cost-effective.
- Landmark Harbor East Cinema sneak preview of PBS film on War of 1812 tailored to local audience
- Brian R. Murphy, a Social Security Administration senior technical adviser and Army veteran, died Friday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 59.
- Varsity Football Game of the Week: No. 1 Gilman vs. Oscar Smith (Va.) Greyhounds will be tested by one of the top teams in Virginia
- A program aimed at making the community's air healthier to breathe is encouraging short-haul truckers at the port of Baltimore to trade in their soot-belching clunkers for newer, cleaner vehicles.