manufacturing and engineering

Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers set to clash in Super Bowl

Baltimore Ravens conduct light workout at Mercedes-Benz Superdome

How often do we pass one of our Aberdeen public buildings with dates or messages stamped upon their exteriors? Do you wonder how, or why, they are part of the structure

Last week, with the exception of the body shop, Fred Frederick Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram's operations moved to a new 14,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility at 39 Washington Blvd. "There are cars in the old showroom, but the old building (at 43 Washington Blvd.) is shut down and everybody works here in the new building," owner Fred Frederick said. "After working here, they don't want to go back. They (the employees) are tickled to death with the whole atmosphere and they deserve it."

Baltimore City fire officials say no one was injured in a fire at a vacant house on West Franklin Street in the city late Saturday night.

The specter of federal budget reductions has meant hundreds of jobs lost at Northrop Grumman Corp. in Maryland, but as the defense contractor vies to build a key U.S. Navy radar system, that same cost-cutting pressure could boost the importance of Northrop's Baltimore-area operations, company leaders said.

A three-alarm fire gutted a three-story brick building of offices and apartments in Mount Vernon early Thursday morning, according to the Baltimore Fire Department.

In addition to the Ravens on the field for Super Bowl XLVII, Baltimore viewers are going to see some familiar faces on the NFL Network's coverage leading up to the game.

Flights and hotel rooms are booking up fast in New Orleans, as Baltimore Ravens fans scramble to join their team for Super Bowl XLVII in the Big Easy on Feb. 3.

A 57-year-old man suffred injuries in a Saturday morning fire in Severn, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.

Marble tables and designs for home

Despite a historical low in fire fatalities statewide, four Harford County residents died in fires this past year, up slightly from the two previous years.

The governor of Virginia has thrown a new wrinkle into a Maryland debate by calling for abolition of the commonwealth's gas tax and increasing the sales tax to pay for roads and transit – a move that would alter the competitive balance between the two states.

Gift to support construction of chapel on St. Charles College campus

J. Dennis Carper, a Baltimore County marina owner and yacht builder who was a decorated World War II veteran, died of stroke and dementia complications Dec. 25 at his Essex home. He was 91.

Although the program's suspension was announced in July, AAA Mid-Atlantic would like to remind Marylanders that the free Tipsy?Taxi! service will not run this New Year's Eve.

Baltimore City's speed camera "nightmare" has made AAA Mid-Atlantic's list of transportation lows from the past year, even as the driver advocacy group credited the State Highway Administration's separate speed camera program with improving safety in highway work zones.

Numerous sponsors for Santa House

A large roll-on, roll-off ship being unloaded at the Dundalk Marine Terminal in Baltimore shifted away from the berth where it was docked amid strong winds Wednesday night, snapped the lines tying it down and damaged a crane, according to Port of Baltimore officials.

The Baltimore VA said it is the first hospital to use 3-D mammograms, a technology it believes will better detect breast cancer

All in all, this Sunday will be a big day, but one that should be a good deal less frantic than the many leading up to it. This shouldn't make it seem anticlimactic, but rather peaceful, which is very much in keeping with the holiday's greater message.

Clogged highway on first day in end-of-year travel season

Port of Baltimore officials say they "are preparing for the worst," in the event of a dockworkers strike at one minute past midnight on Dec. 30.

At Wig Warehouse on East Monument Street, dozens of white Styrofoam heads stare from a top shelf in stark baldness, having lost their hair in the months since the street outside collapsed in a gaping sinkhole.

With a little more than a week to go before their contract expires, talks have broken down between the union representing nearly 15,000 East Coast and Gulf longshoremen and the group representing shippers and port operators.

More Maryland residents are planning holiday trips than last year, and most are traveling by automobile despite local gas prices that are the highest they have ever been at this time of year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.

Decorating doorways adds to holiday atmosphere

The Maryland State Police said Tuesday they are looking for a driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident on Interstate 97 in Anne Arundel County.

Ocean City businesses are ready to compete for tourists next summer, some of whom may have lost their normal beach vacation spots in Hurricane Sandy.

Jarnetta Kroh, a Greater Baltimore Medical Center philanthropist who assisted her husband in his import car servicing business, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder at her home in Laguna Hills, Calif. She was 81 and had lived in the Rockland section of Baltimore County for many years.

Aberdeen was hit by a rash of five robberies on Friday and Saturday, four of them armed, the city's police reported.

Computer science students at Hammond High School aren't just reading textbooks and taking notes these days, but are designing actual software, like interactive fossil fuel maps, for their fellow students to use in other classes.

Some Dundalk area residents are concerned about the Maryland Port Administration's designs on Sparrows Point, fearing the state's long-range plan to convert a corner of the old steel-making complex into a supercargo shipping terminal could literally dredge up the point's toxic legacy in the Patapsco River. An "emergency" community meeting has been called for Thursday, Dec. 6 in Edgemere.

State toll plaza numbers show slight decrease for Thanksgiving week travel.

A transcript of Buck Showalter's news conference Tuesday afternoon at the winter meetings in Nashville, Tenn.

Husband returns to Catonsville while wife remains in Frederick

A man was rescued this morning by firefighters at a dwelling in Dundalk, officials said.

Baltimore County has maintained its top bond ratings from the major rating agencies, county officials said Friday.

AAA wants sale of E15 blocked for now

The new Aberdeen Corporate Park promises 269,000 square feet of LEED-certified office space off of Route 22. But defense contractors have been slow to set up shop at this and many other office projects in and around Aberdeen.

As many as 43 apartments left without utilities.

Roland V. Danielson, a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. naval architect, died Nov. 17 from renal failure at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 92.

'Fiscal cliff' would be especially painful for state's defense-related businesses

Saturday starts quietly as Maryland transportation officials brace for Sunday's post-Thanksgiving traffic crush

Travelers gripe about having to remove shoes while going through airport security. But imagine being the Transportation Security Administration screener who has to deal with thousands of grumpy passengers daily or must rummage through strangers' dirty underwear to look for items that could blow up a plane.

The Southern Maryland native went from performing at Baltimore's annual salute to The King to playing Elvis on Broadway

On paper, the plan for a car maintenance shop and a few stores on Snowden River Parkway in Columbia hardly seems worth fighting about. The business people opposing it, however, see it as an illegal first step toward drastic changes for the worse along some major roads, and a potential threat to businesses in Columbia's nine village centers.