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City parking tickets are an unfair burden that keeps burdening

For the fourth straight year, Americans will wake up on New Year's Day to record high gas prices — but don't take that as an indicator of how the new year will play out at the pump.

Leadership, more than any other factor, shapes how federal employees view their workplaces, says Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service.

This holiday season, Santa Claus Anonymous mailed roughly 15,000 gift certificates to families in Baltimore and nearby counties for parents to use to buy presents for their children. The charity is in its 79th year.

The average rush-hour commuter will pay about $3.50 in daily round-trip tolls to use the new express lanes being built along Interstate 95 north of Baltimore, according to a rate structure approved by the Maryland Transportation Authority's board on Thursday.

Crews are fighting a three-alarm fire in an apartment complex in Northwest Baltimore Thursday morning.

Not only should the proposed incinerator in Curtis Bay not be built so close to Benjamin Franklin High School, it should not be built at all. Calling it a trash-burning "power plant" doesn't make it safe or change the fact that it incinerates dangerous industrial waste.

From now until New Year's Day, nearly 2 million Marylanders are expected to hit the road, catch flights and settle into train cars en route to holiday destinations, about the same number as made trips last year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic. But who is traveling and where they are headed is changing, officials say, along with America's evolving demographics.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake pledged Wednesday to move forward with a new but smaller speed camera system despite the spate of problems that plagued Baltimore's last two speed camera vendors. She spoke after officials voted to terminate the most recent contract for running the city's system, once the largest in North America.

Several dozen residents of Clarksville's River Hill community showed up for the first two days of hearings in a case involving zoning variances for the River Hill Garden Center on Route 108.

Baltimore plans to pay its speed camera vendor $600,000 to end a troubled relationship that has left the city's once lucrative automated enforcement program offline since April and some members of the City Council questioning whether it's time to pull the plug altogether.

Northrop Grumman Corp. has signed on as a sponsor of DreamIt Health Baltimore, a business accelerator already backed by Johns Hopkins University and BioHealth Innovation Inc.

The Baltimore Sun's girls soccer All-Metro first-team selections

Harford police blotter

A global law firm with origins in Baltimore was one of five Maryland-based business to make HRC's list of top workplaces for LGBT equality

Laurel is gearing up for what could be some wintry weather after the National Weather Service issued a winter weather watch for the area beginning early Sunday morning and continuing through Monday morning.

Annual holiday celebration highlights King's enduring appeal

The nuclear accord reached in Geneva last month has sparked a robust debate in the U.S. and around the world. Was the agreement a major achievement in preventing Tehran from obtaining the nuclear bomb, or does it leave the regime's nuclear apparatus intact? Well, if you ask the ayatollahs, the world has at last recognized their "right" to enrich uranium.

The success of Maryland's bars, liquor stores and restaurants today results from lessons learned years ago when this nation banned alcohol, drove it underground and released a torrent of unintended consequences.

There are several serious and potentially dangerous parts of what CA and the new Inner Arbor [IA] corporation plan to do in Symphony Woods. One is that they jettisoned the already approved plans for Symphony Woods Park in favor of a much more costly and building-heavy development plan.

John Raymond Sterner died after setting himself on fire at an Ocean City church; the pastor died of smoke inhalation

Anne Arundel County police detectives are investigating a Black Friday fight at an Annapolis lingerie store that was captured on a video that was posted online.

If you traveled for Thanksgiving, you'll likely pay more for gas getting home than you did getting away.

The recent publication of Elmer J. Hall's "A Mill on the Point: One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Steelmaking at Sparrows Point, Maryland," marks the last of a quartet of books chronicling the industrial and social history of eastern Baltimore County's once heavy industrial peninsula.

As much as 5 million gallons of untreated sewage spilled into Bush Creek in the Abingdon area after a major sewage main broke late last week, according to Harford County public works officials.

While the number of Marylanders traveling for Thanksgiving this year is expected to be slightly lower this year compared to last year, there will still be hundreds of thousands of people on the roads, rails and in the air.

About twenty people were displaced after a fire badly damaged an apartment building in Ellicott City in the early hours of Monday morning, Howard County fire officials said.

Forecasters are keeping an eye on storms in several regions of the U.S. that could dump cold rain or even some snow in the Baltimore-Washington area in the days just before Thanksgiving, potentially complicating plans during the busiest travel time of the year.

For the first time since the economy tanked and the country went into a recession in 2008, fewer Marylanders are expected to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday than did the previous year.

Fewer Americans are expected to travel long distances for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday than last year, despite the lowest gas prices in years, AAA predicted Wednesday.

Students from across the 12 high schools in the Howard County Public School System take part in career academies at the Howard County Applications and Research Laboratory, which has come a long way from its days as a vo-tech center.

Dundalk should rally against plan to develop North Point Government Center

Carroll County received positive credit ratings, including one upgrade, from bond rating agencies after the county's annual bond review in New York. Carroll received a AAA rating, the highest possible, from both Fitch Services and Standard and Poor's Rating Service. The county received a Aa1 rating from Moody's Investor Services.

State and county police are positive about the new cell phone law's first month of implementation

Proposed 101 York project is exactly what downtown Towson needs. Building a new mixed-use centerpiece on an under-utilized parcel with street level retail and hundreds of new housing units can have a dramatic improvement in Towson's downtown core.

Harford County Public Schools parents can view and comment on the school system's calendar for the 2014-2015 school year, a calendar that comes with eight days built in as makeup days for inclement weather.

Five hundred fifty runners and walkers broke records in attendance and in funds raised at the Fifth Annual Heather L. Hurd 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun Walk on Nov. 9 at Harford Community College.

Average gas prices in Maryland and across the country fell to their lowest level in two years Friday, and are expected to continue dropping through the end of the year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.

Exelon officials plan to build two additional natural gas-fired power generating units on utility-owned land off Chelsea Road in Perryman.

Aberdeen's city council introduced its version of the bill that would create a joint SWAT team with police in Bel Air and Havre de Grace.

More than a quarter of drivers reported "being so tired they had a difficult time keeping their eyes open" while recently behind the wheel, despite most considering the practice "somewhat or completely unacceptable," according to a new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

Improperly displayed parking permit shouldn't be a $52 offense

St. John Properties, Inc. has selected Charm City Concierge to support the approximately 45 companies situated within The Government and Technology Enterprise (The GATE) project, with a full complement of business and personal concierge services.

After a challenging morning — particularly on the south and west sides of the beltway — traffic appears to be clearing out as of 9 a.m. around Baltimore. Maryland Department of Transportation cameras show that things are moving, though slowly in some areas.

A man was fatally shot steps away from railroad tracks in an industrial area of Harmans on Thursday night, Anne Arundel County police said.

A longtime pizza shop in Delta was destroyed early Wednesday morning in a fire that also displaced ten residents, the local fire company reported.

A recap of the Oct. 27 episode of 'The Amazing Race," where it's time to find the doughnuts

Aiming to boost the fledgling market for plug-in vehicles, Maryland and seven other states pledged Thursday to use their governments' tax and spending powers to get 3.3 million "zero-emission" cars, trucks and vans on the road in the next dozen years.