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George W. McManus Jr. plans to leave an $8.5 million bequest to benefit the schools he attended as well as other charities.

The tree removal to expand the Catonsville Y and build a new Brightview senior living facility has residents angry

New garage built for Assistance Center of Towson Churches a Builders Squad, Blessing of the Animals takes place at Church of the Immaculate Conception, fifth-graders from Halstead Academy and Pleasant Plains Elementary begin mentorships with Randallstown High students, Calvert Hall College High School starts Cyber Security Club

One of the things I have a hard time squaring about my hard earned tax dollars is the plan to build a new Youth's Benefit Elementary School on the same site as the existing school.

Mark P. Becker, Bert J. Hash Jr., Robert "Bobby" Parker and Clark Turner have been announced as the Class of 2013 of the Havre de Grace High School Hall of Fame.

City support for the Harbor Point mega-development is all but assured, but the degree to which it will ultimately benefit Baltimore residents remains to be seen.

Engineering researchers at the Johns Hopkins University plan to stir an earthquake this month, a temblor as powerful as the 1994 Northridge quake in Southern California — one of the most costly in U.S. history.

Increased interest in urban living and a tight supply have made Baltimore's rental market extremely competitive in recent years.

The small plane that crashed into a Maryland City mobile home park on Thursday morning lost power shortly after takeoff, investigators said Friday.

The O'Malley administration is launching a three-year, $125 million construction project that will set the table for more international flights from BWI Marshall Airport.

Six people, including two infants, were displaced after a firefighters from Howard, Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties extinguished a fire in their mobile home located in Beechcrest Mobile Home Estates.

Optimism abounds for Caves Valley Partners' plan to build Towson Row, a one million square foot mixed-use community off York Road near Towsontown Boulevard. There's demand for new construction and the walkable experience that the project aims to create, real estate experts say.

A mobile home fire in North Laurel displaced six people Friday afternoon

A prime lot near Lake Kittamaqundi in Columbia that has sat vacant for years is likely to become a construction site in next few months, the land's owner said Monday.

Eugenia "Jean" Bosley, a homemaker who was honored as a "shining star" for 35 years of child care in her church's Sunday morning nursery, died of multiple organ failure Monday at her Ruxton home. She was 93.

A dilemma arose on Nov. 29, 2012, at a local trailer park off of Route 1. A meeting was held to alert the residents of Beechcrest Mobile Home Park that Howard County Housing, in association with the Volunteers of America organization, was claiming their land in order to build a homelessness, substance abuse, and unemployment recovery center. They were given until Nov. 19 of the next year to pack up and get out so that the county could begin construction of the multi-million dollar project.

A $2 million construction project by the Maryland State Highway Administration in partnership with Carroll County is expected to improve safety at the intersection of Stone Road and Maryland 97 north of Westminster.

Student distribution at Harford County Public Schools is destined to stay the same for the foreseeable future, as school enrollment numbers remain as predicted.

Walter E. Woodford Jr., a state highway engineer and executive who supervised road construction from Ocean City to Garrett County and headed building of the second span of the Bay Bridge in 1973, died of congestive heart failure May 22 at the Hospice Center in Centreville. He was 88 and had lived in Timonium and Centreville.

Baltimore County should put the needs of residents for open space ahead of the desire of developers for profits.

As people already living in the area lift their voices to complain about the coming traffic problems, government officials would do well to take their concerns to heart and begin working now to deal wit the inevitable jams.

J. Joseph Clarke sees the stars finally aligning for One Light Street, a 22-story residential development he hopes to build on a surface parking lot at the corner of Light and East Redwood streets, where the Southern Hotel used to stand, and three vacant buildings fronting East Baltimore Street.

A bill set to be introduced to the Baltimore County Council next month will mandate bicycle parking for most new developments in downtown Towson, Councilman David Marks said Tuesday.

Howard County government announced plans last week to build 30 efficiency apartments and a day center for the homeless on eight acres purchased for $3.25 million near the intersection of Route 1 and Route 32.

Howard County government officials announced plans last week to build 30 efficiency apartments and a day center for the homeless near the intersection of Route 1 and Route 32, effectively ruling out the Beechcrest Mobile Home Park in North Laurel as a site for a homeless shelter.

On May 1, member's of the hospital family and its extended greater Laurel family gathered to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the hospital, which opened on the same date in 1978.

Latest deal calls for $27M in on-call consulting services for public works department

James F. "Frank" Welch, the retired president and owner of an Anne Arundel County home building firm, died Friday from a heart failure at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 87.

The 21-year-old Laurel man convicted in a stabbing death was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday in Howard County Circuit Court, according to State's Attorney spokesman Wayne Kirwan.

M. Faysal Thameen, a retired structural engineer who headed the city's role in the 1980s construction of the Fort McHenry Tunnel, died of cancer April 9 at his home in Millbury, Mass. The former Parkville resident was 75.

While there are plenty of variables in calculating construction costs, there are plenty of people who are well versed in those variables working for our government and quasi-government entities and their estimates are worth taking seriously both by the general public and by those bidding on the work.

Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to put up $300,000 in taxpayer's money to save Towson University's baseball team came under fire Wednesday by some legislators and key Maryland fiscal policymakers for being unprecedented, unfair to other college sports programs and inappropriate.

A large fire tore through the Charles County fairgrounds on Tuesday afternoon, killing two dogs and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal.

State troopers shot a revolver-wielding man twice in the torso on Thursday night after a bizarre standoff in a mobile home park in Allegany County that began when the man opened fire on members of his own family, Maryland State Police said Friday.

Howard County's homeless population has hovered around 200 people since 2010 and the 2013 Point-In-Time survey counted 203 homeless county residents Jan. 23.

Howard County's homeless population has hovered around 200 people since 2010 and the 2013 Point-In-Time survey counted 203 homeless county residents Jan. 23.

While homes continue to be built around Harford County, the local market has a long way to go before it gets to the heights its sustained before the nationwide housing market crash which began in 2007.

Ernest T. Davis, a retired construction project manager and World War II B-24 pilot, died Feb. 13 from heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 92.

Haron Dahan, a successful self-made home builder whose philanthropic interests included educational institutions both in Baltimore and Israel, died Monday from heart failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 87.

An article in the March 11, 1938 edition of The Catonsville Herald and Baltimore Countian reported on the possible end of the battle between two fire companies for control.

Gov. Martin O'Malley and the Democratic leaders of the General Assembly are proposing to raise taxes on gasoline by $2 billion over five years to finance highways, transit and other transportation projects.

St. John Properties Inc. said it has completed construction on 6190 Guardian Gateway, a new three-story, 75,000 square foot office building located within the boundary of Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Clearing of the grounds of the former sheriff's residence, opposite the courthouse, began in Bel Air to make way for construction of the new county office building. A contract was awarded and construction was to start immediately.

The Anne Arundel County Council passed a measure to restrict development in environmentally critical areas, then heard a debate on a proposed fee to fund better stormwater-management practices.

Enrollment in Harford County Public Schools is more than 350 students fewer than last year, based on numbers released by the school system.

Howard County is considering other locations than North Laurel's Beechcrest Mobile Home Park to build an apartment complex for the chronically homeless, county spokesman Mark Miller confirmed this week.