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An NFL competition committee proposal to ¿make it illegal for an offensive player with an eligible number to report as ineligible and line up outside the core of the formation¿ got the necessary 75 percent approval from team owners during the final day of the league meetings at the Arizona Biltmore resort.

Owings Mills resident Laura Smith-Velazquez is on a short list for Mars One's one-way trip to the red planet, but the mission faces many scientific and financial hurdles.

The only answer to 'deflategate' and other misadventures in pro football is to stop caring about NFL games quite so much

The Baltimore City Council is once again trying to ban most stores from giving plastic bags to customers — only a month after Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake shot down their last attempt at a ban.

The Ravens divisional round game against the Patriots has fans and the media in both locales buzzing, with anticipation to face a familiar foe taking hold in Baltimore while something resembling fear has swept New England.

Amid changing attitudes toward violence against women, Maryland can do more to help sex trafficking victims restart their lives

Baltimore hotels would be required to train their staff to recognize signs of forced prostitution under proposed legislation that also would prohibit rooms from being rented for less than half a day.

Adult recreation sports, lights coming to field near Canton arena

Any team interested in former Ravens running back Ray Rice will have to weigh the risk, and cost, of signing him.

We now have the potential to stop a new generation of smokers by regulating the use of vaping indoors, enforcing the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and mandating that they be placed behind the counter in retail establishments. It is time that Baltimore joins nearly 200 other cities and counties, as well as three states, that have enacted prohibitions against using e-cigarettes indoors.

A Columbia-based real estate firm is looking for the right tenant to kickstart development of its waterfront property in Canton, with plans for four glassy office buildings that could create a kind of Harbor farther East

Administration moves to take responsibility, but some question city¿s ability to do the job

The Harford County Sheriff's Office and Maryland State Police report:

Traffic camera giant Redflex has been lobbying the Rawlings-Blake administration and City Council to take over Baltimore's once-lucrative speed and red light camera network — stressing that it should not be judged by an unfolding scandal in Chicago in which a former top company official is charged with bribery.

Big Lots has revamped its food department, adding name brand products and expanding the international assortment, the retailer said.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake used her first veto since taking office in 2010 to strike down a bill passed by the City Council aimed at reducing or eliminating many of the so-called "minor privilege" fees the city charges.

Rich Thomas has run more than two dozen professional golf events over the past 14 years, but from its inception more than year ago the LPGA's International Crown at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills has felt different to its tournament director. "It's not even close," Thomas said.

Men enrolled in a program to learn how to detail cars dream of full-time employment, and an escape from city violence.

A renewed effort is underway in Baltimore to impose a fee on most plastic bags handed out in city stores, and supporters believe that charging a nickel for each sack, rather than a dime, will allow the measure to gain enough backing to become law.

Commercial real estate company Duke Realty is moving forward with plans for a second Amazon distribution center next to the major facility announced last fall.

A City Council committee considering new regulations for Baltimore's growing food truck industry plans to hold work sessions as members evaluate more than 50 proposed amendments.

A development group backed by Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank wants to build a 128-room hotel on the crumbling Recreation Pier in Fells Point.

It took the Baltimore Police crime lab well over a year to link a Southeast Baltimore man to a 2012 rape due to a backlog in DNA analysis. Before officers could arrest him, police say he attacked again.

Food truck operators packed into Baltimore City Council chambers on Tuesday to testify on an administration bill that would change the way food trucks operate in the city. The food-truck vendors told the committee they are concerned about new parking restrictions and other provisions in the bill, which would turn over turn over the supervision of food trucks to the city¿s department of general services.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell earned $44.2 million in compensation during a 12-month span that ended March 31, 2013, according to Sports Business Daily.

Men's Wearhouse launched a $1.6 billion hostile takeover bid for Jos. A. Bank Clothiers on Monday.

Allen E. Alban, former chief engineer of Kraft Foods who was known as the "Mayor of Stevenson," died Tuesday from complications of a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 100.

Free display features trains and scenes on two levels at Arbutus autobody shop

Two homes have been condemned in the 200 block of South Madeira St., an alley street of roughly century-old homes near Patterson Park. in Baltimore.

Rawlings-Blake learned a lesson with Patterson Park uproar

A series of public meetings for Baltimore residents to voice their concerns about preliminary city plans to add more parking and an access road to Patterson Park have been canceled, according to city officials.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has called for the formation of a working group of local residents and city officials to study the Patterson Park Master Plan and make recommendations on future improvements.

A day after hundreds of Baltimore residents voiced strong opposition to a preliminary plan to add more parking spaces and an access road to Patterson Park, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Tuesday that she was creating a "working group" to study the park's future.

Hundreds of Baltimore residents voiced strong opposition to a preliminary plan to add more parking spaces and an access road to Patterson Park during a community meeting there Monday night — at times shouting down city officials trying to explain it.

Best plan for Patterson Park is to leave its greenery intact

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Wednesday said Councilman James Kraft has unnecessarily riled up the community around Patterson Park over a preliminary proposal to build nearly 100 parking spaces in the park to accommodate a new senior center.

Baltimore-based Legg Mason is losing a CEO, but what's next?