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- Although gas prices have increased over the past month, AAA-Mid Atlantic says it doesn't expect prices to affect Labor Day travel.
- A Columbia widow wanted to update her Oakland Mills home with better views of the outdoors and more natural light inside. And fresh colors. And new furniture. She made it her own.
- Vehicles will soon start rolling off ships at the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County.
- The Maryland Senate approved a bill Friday that would extend $37.5 million in tax credits to Northrop Grumman if the giant defense contractor maintains 10,000 jobs in the state.
- Northrop Grumman Corp would receive millions over the next five years in an incentive pushed by the Hogan administration, on top of $20 million lawmakers already intend to award the defense contractor for staying in Maryland.
- Gov. Larry Hogan is proposing $20 million in funding for defense and aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, designed to retain the company's newly created Mission Systems divisional headquarters in Linthicum and 10,000 jobs in Maryland.
- Two of Maryland's leading science and technology institutions are joining forces to invest $1.6 million in manpower and resources to enhance learning at a south Baltimore school.
- Across Maryland and much of the northeast on Wednesday, homeowners dialed their insurers about flooded basements, while vehicle owners rung their insurers and their mechanics about water finding its way into engines and interiors.
- Nestled between homes in historic Uniontown, a former rural community bank has sat vacant along Uniontown Road for more than 30 years.
- A Parkville man was convicted Monday of conspiring to ship industrial components to Iran in violation of the U.S. trade embargo on that country, the U.S. attorney's office announced.
- When David Craig leaves office later this year, after serving longer than anyone else as Harford County executive, most people presume his political career will pretty much come to close
- As today's computer-powered vehicles become increasingly connected to drivers and their lives and capable of transmitting data to the outside world, civil liberties organizations and driver advocacy groups have begun raising concerns with regulators, legislators and industry leaders.
- A two-alarm fire broke out in a vacant rowhome in West Baltimore early Friday morning, though no one was reported to be injured.
- The Harford County Sheriff's Office and Maryland State Police report
- The Harford County Sheriff's Office and Maryland State Police report
- The Baltimore Board of Estimates on Wednesday approved a nearly $12 million contract for construction and repair work to replace a block of East 26th Street that collapsed amid heavy rains in Charles Village in April.
- Catonsville residents can expect to see construction of a new senior living facility and a community center expansion on South Rolling Road by spring 2015.
- Clarksville resident Marissa Diehl is a rising senior at Glenelg Country School and definitely one of our "special" youngsters. Marissa Diehl opera
- Pennsylvania-based Rettew Motor Sports will present a Monster Truck Show at the 2014 Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair Saturday, July 26, at the Buck Miller Arena at the Carroll County Agriculture Center in Westminster, Md.
- Baltimore commuters take heart: Some of the frustration felt in recent weeks on major arteries to downtown will soon come to an end.
- Standard & Poor's raised Baltimore's bond rating to its highest level in years — a move that reflects growing confidence in the city's fiscal health and will lead to potentially millions of dollars in savings for the city's budget.
- Russia's proxy war in Ukraine has backfired with the downing of a Malaysian airliner by separatist rebels
- Rome wasn't built in a day, but it beats an I-83 overpass.
- Last seen in 2011, a skid steer loader rodeo will return to the 2014 Carroll County 4-H & FFA Fair, as a tribute to the memory of Bob Green, a long-time Finch Services employee and beloved person in the community, who hosted and organized the rodeo before its retirement.
- Driver advocacy organization AAA Mid-Atlantic, known for its roadside assistance and insurance and travel services, is heading headlong into a new market in Maryland: automotive repair and maintenance.
- With talks on Iran's nuclear program likely to be extended, it's crucial that Congress continue to give the administration room to negotiate and not scuttle the chance for a deal with tough talk and unrealistic demands.
- Northrop Grumman broke ground Monday on a 25,00-square-foot facility specializing in cargo bound for space, the latest expansion for Maryland's slowly growing space industry.
- With the Highway Trust Fund within weeks of bankruptcy, Congress looks to do no more than kick the transportation can down the road
- What are likely to be the final bond ratings of the Gov. Martin O'Malley's term offer a validation of his fiscal policies.
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- Maryland kept its coveted AAA bond rating this week, an accomplishment that allows it to continue borrowing cash more cheaply than most states. Gov. Martin O'Malley heralded the rating from New York bond agencies Tuesday as proof of his sound fiscal stewardship of Maryland.