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Here's everything you need to know before some of the best metal, punk, industrial and goth acts from Baltimore, Maryland and beyond take over Frederick for the weekend.

Synagro Technologies, a Baltimore-based waste management company, faces grass roots opposition to its application to spread industrial waste as fertilizer over farms in seven Virginia counties. As a result of the backlash, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has delayed signing off on Synagro's plans.

Growing your own herbs and veggies can add health and variety to your cooking, but make sure your soil is free of contaminants.

Environmental regulators said Thursday they have given the final go-ahead for construction of the Harbor Point project, allowing the developer to begin driving pilings next week for a new Exelon Corp. office tower at the former factory site laced with toxic chemicals.

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The family that owns the Black Olive restaurant and runs the Inn at The Black Olive is monitoring the air outside the hotel — across the street from the planned Harbor Point development — as a check on the official monitoring happening on site.

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Throughout the Baltimore area, the record-breaking cold has caused water pipes to freeze and burst, unleashing rivers of water that panicked homeowners rush to stop. Plumbers say they've never been busier

The New England Patriots will be shorthanded at left offensive tackle and wide receiver Sunday against the Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium.

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.

Harbor Point will be built safely without further studies

Light rail expansion could pose a greater health hazard than Harbor Point development

Additional studies of the Harbor Point area in Baltimore are needed to reduce what can best be defined as an unacceptable level of uncertainty about the safety of a proposed development project there.

The developer planning to build a new waterfront headquarters for Exelon Corp. on the site of a former chromium processing plant assured Fells Point area residents Thursday night the Harbor Point project could be built safely without releasing the highly contaminated soil and ground water entombed beneath the site.

A public meeting tonight (Thursday) will give Baltimore residents a chance to ask questions about environmental safeguards for developing Harbor Point, a former factory site in Fells Point where toxic chromium remains entombed underground.

Plans for redeveloping a former chromium factory site in Fells Point hit a new snag Friday, as federal and state regulators called for changes in the Harbor Point developer's plans for protecting the public from toxic contaminants in the ground during construction of an office building there for Exelon Corp.

A public meeting on environmental safeguards for redeveloping a Fells Point former factory site has been reset for Nov. 14, Baltimore City Council member James B. Kraft announced.

Turner Station residents threatened by chromium pollution

Even as some Fells Point residents worry that building over toxic soil at Harbor Point could endanger their health, records show elevated levels of cancer-causing chromium in groundwater just beyond the site targeted for an upscale development.

The developer planning to build an office tower at Harbor Point agreed Wednesday night to hold another public meeting on the controversial project after Fells Point residents who showed up for an open house there demanded a more formal discussion of the safety of developing the former chemical plant site.

For some residents near Sparrows Point, there's an upside to the closure of the steel mill: No more steelmaking byproduct — kish — raining down on their properties. But a year after the shutdown, some still worry about the possibility of long-term effects.

The owners of a Reisterstown store have been given probation after allegedly purchasing stolen jewelry taken in a rash of burglaries in Baltimore and Carroll counties last year.

Scientists have found abnormalities in yellow perch in three Maryland rivers that are either heavily suburbanized or rapidly developing, which they say helps explain why the distinctive black-striped fish are not thriving in those Chesapeake Bay tributaries.

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Baltimore County police say precious-metal dealers' transaction records enable them to track stolen property as it starts its way through an elaborate black market. But incomplete paperwork, or, the lack of paperwork is not uncommon among gold buyers who might be enticed to overlook procedures because payoffs can be big.

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There's hardly a square inch of the 1,900-acre Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area that Johnny Johnsson hasn't walked, mapped or studied.

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Port, Honeywell launch $27 million effort to contain toxic chrome waste under Dundalk Marine Terminal

The Sparrows Point steel mill was auctioned off Tuesday, but no one — not the company, not its attorneys, not the union — would say who bought it.

The auction for RG Steel's Sparrows Point steel mill, expected Tuesday, will be delayed by a week.

Judith S. Campbell, a former licensed commodities broker, died Monday of multiple sclerosis at her Parkton home. She was 61.

Baltimore County police targeting metals theft, create task force

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Alabama to become new corporate home for Wise Metals when it leaves Baltimore by the end of the year