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Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies are looking for two men in connection with an reported armed carjacking that occurred early Saturday morning in the vicinity of the MARC train station in Edgewood.

Trevor Simm and his staff spend their days hunting sometimes-elusive prey: tech workers — particularly with security clearances — who'd like to switch employers.

Baltimore County emergency responders were at the scene of a three-alarm fire in Dundalk on Friday evening

Neither U.S. activism in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and Iran, nor U.S. inaction in the case of Syria, has yet to bring the results hoped for by the Obama Administration. While U.S. policy in the Middle East has not yet broken down, except, perhaps in the case of Syria; the U.S. remains a long way from the breakthrough in the region that the Obama Administration had hoped for.

The Baltimore school board approved Tuesday a four-year contract for Gregory Thornton, the Milwaukee administrator introduced last month as the next superintendent of the school system.

The U.S. Department of Justice has identified and begun targeting a broad conspiracy to fix prices on automobile shipments out of Baltimore and other U.S. ports, with a Chilean company recently pleading guilty to violating federal antitrust laws in the scheme.

if the ratings are good and getting better, that's a positive development.

Piper Jaffray was the winning bidder in Harford County's $40 million bond sale Tuesday, offering a 3.0465 percent interest rate to beat out 11 other bidders.

As of 9:10 a.m., the Maryland Department of Transportation is reporting that an earlier reported accident at the inner loop of the beltway and I-795 has been cleared, and traffic cameras are showing smooth flow through the Liberty Road area toward the ramps.

Pnina Wilkins, an interior designer who was a past president of Hadassah, died Feb. 22 of heart failure at Seasons Hospice in Randallstown. She was 90.

Richard A. Hartman, former president and CEO of the Automobile Club of Maryland who fought at the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, died Feb. 28 of complications from cancer and renal failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 91.

Last spring, the Harford Tech girls lacrosse team had a good season, so good they ended up as the top team in the Susquehanna Division of the Harford and Cecil high school athletic league known as the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference.

Harford County government announced it has received top ratings from the nation's three major municipal bond rating agencies in advance of a $40 million bond sale scheduled for March 11.

The estimated costs for the Red and Purple transit lines in Baltimore and suburban Washington increased in recent years, an analysis released Wednesday by the Federal Transit Administration showed.

For the seventeenth year in a row, Howard County has earned a AAA bond rating from all of the "big three" ratings agencies.

First the port of Baltimore's ongoing labor dispute heated up with a strike, then it was "cooling off" under arbitration, and now it's just simmering with uncertainty — to the benefit of no one, port observers say.

Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp and Comptroller Peter Franchot warned senators Wednesday that Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposal to divert $100 million a year from the state pension fund to next year's budget threatens the long-term health of the retirement system.

You can't put the trees into the ground until the soil is workable, meaning it's dry enough so a clump crumbles in your hand when squeezed

A University of Maryland program that matches researchers with companies has awarded $4.1 million to 15 teams working to bring technology products to market

Harford County and its municipalities had either broken the bank or were close to breaking on their snow removal budgets even before a winter storm dumped 1 to 2 feet of snow around the county in mid-February.

The Abell Foundation has invested $25 million in Paice, a Baltimore firm that invented a way to improve the performance of combined gas/electric engines, and has spent years fighting automakers in court over the use of what its alleges is its technology.

It was a dead rat the detective found on his windshield of his Toyota Corolla on a fall morning, the corpse peeking out from under the windshield wiper — a sign, he thought, that his colleagues in the department saw him as a snitch.

Maryland speed camera programs came under scrutiny in Annapolis and Baltimore Tuesday, with the General Assembly considering reforms ranging from a ban of the so-called "bounty system" to levying heavy fines against operators that issue erroneous tickets. Meanwhile, a city councilman leading an investigation into a secret audit of Baltimore's speed camera system said the administration has agreed to turn over hundreds of pages of documents..

Franklin S. Dail Sr., a retired general Motors executive who enjoyed tennis and running, died Thursday of pneumonia at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 82.

Harford County officials plan to postpone by a month a planned sale of bonds to finance two key public safety-related projects and other capital improvements.

Accessible vehicles, not concept cars, dominate

As many refineries slow production of gasoline in February as they conduct seasonal maintenance, gas prices are likely to rise in Maryland and across the country, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.

Keystone XL is one more hole in a sinking ship

Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to divert pension savings to the general fund is unfair to workers and potentially harmful to Md.'s fiscal health.

More people called AAA Mid-Atlantic for emergency roadside assistance in January than in any previous month on record, the organization said Monday.

In a quest to create the world's fastest suit for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, two iconic Maryland companies, Under Armour and Lockheed Martin, created a unique collaboration to fashion the most aerodynamic suit possible, using computer modeling based on filming the athletes and hundreds of hours of wind tunnel testing.

The return of Carnival Pride to Baltimore offers a valuable lesson in economic growth and environmental protection

Computerized storm simulations are not new, but this work in the era of climate change aims to take things further with contributions from experts in a wider range of fields.

Legislative reforms are desperately needed to address issues with Maryland's speed camera programs in school zones, particularly in Baltimore city, where the problems have been so pervasive and so well-documented that the system has been suspended since April.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake offered a new reason Wednesday for why her administration never acted on the results of an audit that found a high error rate in tickets from Baltimore's speed camera system: The national engineering firm the city paid to do it was "not sufficiently qualified" to do a thorough report.

Children in 2014 have an array of sophisticated electronic toys and games at their disposal, but on Saturday, the attention of two groups of boys and girls was captured by simple wooden cars, which they made, racing on a short track.

The way Dominion sees it, exporting liquefied natural gas from its southern Maryland complex that now imports the fuel wouldn't be that big of a shift. But the project at Cove Point strikes opponents as a sea change. Now those fighting the proposal on environmental grounds are joining forces with some Calvert County residents worried about hazards from LNG, which in rare occasions has caused deadly fires or explosions.

A developer wants to buy city-owned property near the Fairfield Marine Terminal to turn it into more parking for the port of Baltimore's thriving automobile industry.

Driver advocacy group AAA Mid-Atlantic and some lawmakers urged local governments to conduct audits of their speed camera programs Thursday after learning that a secret audit last year of Baltimore's program documented far higher error rates than previously disclosed.

An armed robbery that took place Jan. 13 at Havre de Grace's Best Budget Inn was reported nearly a week later, city police said.

Discord has erupted within the longshoremen's union at the heart of the port of Baltimore's raging labor dispute, with some members calling for an end to the union's standoff with port employers and others promising to carry on the fight.

Despite assurances from labor and management officials at the port of Baltimore that their ongoing contract dispute will not result in a strike or lockout, business at the city's public terminals is slowing.

Despite assurances from labor and management officials at the port of Baltimore that their ongoing contract dispute will not result in a strike or lockout, business at the city's public terminals is slowing.

John P. O'Brien, a manufacturing supervisor who was also a charter boat captain, died Sunday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at his Severna Park home. He was 56.

Members of a local longshoremen union "resoundingly rejected" what has been described as a "best and final" contract offer from employers at the port of Baltimore on Monday night, according to the union president.

Transgender students at the University of Maryland, College Park seeking to undergo sex change surgery could have the cost covered in their health insurance plan next year, joining a recent wave of colleges and employers nationwide offering the benefit.

Bishop Lee Robinson, the city's first African-American police commissioner who began his 50-year career in law enforcement with the Baltimore Park Police, died Monday of dementia at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 86 and lived in Homeland.

Members of a local longshoremen union that went on strike in October, crippling the port of Baltimore for days, will meet Monday to discuss a new contract offer from the port's employers.

Harford firefighters were kept busy Saturday, battling three blazes in different parts of Harford County - Aberdeen, Joppa and Forest Hill.