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Venus Wiles would rather sleep, tucked away in a tent stuffed with blankets and all her worldly possessions on the side of the JFX with her boyfriend, Michael Spence, than stay the night in an emergency shelter. - As the clock ticked down Sunday, the morning clouds disappeared, as if they were in on the months-long planning that went into the destruction of Baltimore Gas & Electric's final natural gas holding silo.
- BGE implodes gas tank at Cold Spring Lane and JFX
- The 258-foot Melvale Gas Holder has stood above northern Baltimore for nearly eight decades. On Sunday morning, it should take only about seven seconds for the storage tank to be brought to the ground.
- An old BGE gas holder overlooking the Jones Falls Expressway and Cold Spring Lane is set to be imploded Sunday morning, officials say.
- Cars leaving Baltimore via the Jones Falls Expressway were experiencing significant delays early Monday morning as fire and police crews worked to clear a car fire.
- Two Baltimore police cruisers were involved in an accident Saturday afternoon on the southbound Jones Falls Expressway near Guilford Avenue, police say. No serious injuries were reported.
- Green Spring Station — a collection of boutiques, restaurants and offices near the northern end of the Jones Falls Expressway — commands some of the highest rent in Baltimore County. Visitors can shop for French linens at Paris-based Yves Delorme, try on mink at furrier Mano Swartz, and play squash at the Green Spring Racquet Club.
- Judge Howard Gary Bass, whose career as a Baltimore District Court judge spanned nearly three decades, died Tuesday afternoon at Good Samaritan Hospital after being stricken with a heart attack at his Homeland residence. He was 70.
- State police declare snow emergencies in Garrett and Allegany counties.
- Patrons and vendors bid one another sad farewells Sunday as the Baltimore Farmers' Market ended its 36th season.
- You won't find peaches and blueberries, but farmers will be loading up their stands with winter vegetables like beets, carrots, cauliflower and kohlrabi, all perfect for throwing into a winter soup.
- Baltimore transportation officials said Thursday they are investigating a second speed camera on Cold Spring Lane after more questions were raised about whether it has been issuing accurate tickets to motorists.
- Candidates for office and advocates for some of Maryland's hard-fought ballot questions hit the streets Sunday in a final bid to drum up votes in Tuesday's election.
- Rodney G. Stieff, former chairman of the board and CEO of Kirk-Stieff Co., which was the oldest silversmith firm in the country, died Tuesday of kidney cancer.
- Area transit systems resume service after storm interruption; no major delays reported transit systems
- BGE and Baltimore should think of a creative reuse for the Melvale Gas Holder.
- Implosion planned for early 2013; film commission alerted for possible movie plot tie-ins
- Why doesn't the city do a better job enforcing its own traffic laws?
- Traffic is likely to be impacted in Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties Friday afternoon by the funeral procession for Forrest "Dino" Taylor, a veteran Baltimore City police officer who died Aug. 29, according to Maryland State Police.
- An unidentified woman was attacked by a Rottweiler outside the farmers' market in Waverly Saturday after it broke the leash with which it was tied to a parking meter, witnesses said Sunday.
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- Traffic: Accident on I-695 inner loop near Falls Road
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- The Baltimore Farmers' Market and Bazaar opened a new welcome center Sunday that will allow customers to use food stamp benefits and debit card payments at the market, located under the Jones Falls Expressway.
- Many federal workers in Washington make their home in the Baltimore area. And get two of them together at a party and they immediately begin swapping commuting strategies.
- A man was killed Saturday morning after his car veered off northbound I-83 just north of Pimlico Road.
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- Whether from the store or direct from the farm, local ice creams are drawing consumers' favor
- A man was shot Thursday afternoon in North Baltimore as federal agents and Baltimore police arrested a group of men planning an armed robbery, officials said.
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- Emergency repair work on the Jones Fall Expressway is completed ahead of schedule and all lanes have reopened, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Saturday.
- Overnight closures of the Jones Falls Expressway at 29th Street will continue next week as crews begin replacing collapsed drainage pipes and repairing erosion that threatened to undermine the road.
- A city police officer was taken to Mercy Hospital after his police cruiser was rear-ended by another vehicle on the southbound Jones Falls Expressway near West 29th Street late Monday afternoon, according to a police spokesman.
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- Work and weekend events have shut down several city thoroughfares, officials said.
- Traffic: Accident on I-695 outer loop near Belair Road
- Basketball at the Bykota Senior Center is definitely old-school, including some players in their 80s
- Mount Vernon streets to be closed from 3 p.m. to midnight Thursday-Saturday to accommodate the 95
- JFX lanes to close overnight to gauge extent of damage
- JFX delays would not be so bad if people simply shared their ride
- Residents of Hampden would like the TV new choppers to stop waking them up at 6 a.m.
- Expressway construction will alter traffic for two months
- A Monday morning accident on the Jones Falls Expressway meant traffic was narrowed to a single lane in one section, worsening a commute city transportation officials had already warned would be difficult because of planned lane closures.
- Turn-by-turn directions for getting downtown during lane closures on the JFX.
