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Redesigned for 2015, this second-generation Genesis looks, feels and drives like a luxury car should: distinctive, roomy, comfortable, quiet, powerful and loaded with safety and infotainment features. Yet it¿s priced thousands less than similarly equipped competitors.

Schools reopen this week but danger looms if motorists continue to illegally pass stopped buses

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.

DETROIT (AP) ¿ General Motors extended its record-breaking string of safety problems, announcing Friday three more recalls, including a large one involving its top-selling vehicle.

Michael Pecht feels like Sherlock Holmes sometimes, and not just because he plays violin on the side. He runs a 120-person engineering team at the University of Maryland where he and others get to figure out why something is going wrong — from windshield wipers to highly technical parts.

The only way to stop lawbreaking at General Motors or any other big corporation is to prosecute the people who break the law.

Elect legislators willing to mandate life-saving ignition interlock for all convicted of drunk driving in Maryland and save countless lives

Maryland needs a nonprofit to devote itself to saving young people from fatal car crashes

Efforts to raise Maryland's speed limit to 70 mph ignore the brutal reality of accident deaths

The Harford County Sheriff's is increasing its efforts to prevent people from leaving their cars running, unattended and unlocked in an effort to prevent vehicle and related thefts.

Keeping up with baby-product recalls

The Harford County Sheriff's Office arrested four people for drinking and driving, or for having drugs, during a recent sobriety checkpoint at Route 152 near Stockton Road overnight between Saturday and Sunday.

Federal agents intercepted

Elaine Ortiz had long entertained the idea of learning to ride a motorcycle, but the 5 feet tall, the Columbia resident sits on the back of her boyfriend's Ducati 900 and discovers she comes up a bit short.

The Harford County Traffic Task Force was formed approximately two years ago and is comprised of officers from each agency within the county- the Harford County Sheriff's Office, Maryland State Police Bel Air Barrack, Maryland State Police JFK Barrack, Aberdeen PD, Bel Air PD, and Havre de Grace PD

AAA Mid-Atlantic today released a list of safety tips to help parents and care givers remember to never leave a child unattended in a car. Their advice comes on the heels of the heartbreaking death on Friday of a 16-month-old Baltimore County girl.

Starting around this time of year, dozens of children across the country die after being forgotten sweltering inside of cars each summer. A group of Johns Hopkins University students may have found a way to ensure parents remember even a silently sleeping baby.

One of every five trucks pulled over in Baltimore by State Police inspectors on the first day of a multi-day sweep this week was taken out of service for safety defects.

Harford County law enforcement officials reported a pretty quiet St. Patrick's Day weekend for 2013, although a few arrests were made around the county.

Four and a half years after a crash on I-270 in Gaithersburg, the family that lost a child could change Maryland law to allow victims of drunk-driving crashes and their families to sue bars and restaurants if their drunk-driving patrons cause deaths and injuries.

William Charles Brubaker, a retired aeronautical engineer who was a founding trombone player in the Baltimore Colts Marching Band, died at Sinai Hospital Feb. 12 of complications of injuries he suffered near his Lutherville home. Family members said he had been struck by a vehicle while walking last year. He was 91.

The hundreds of speeding tickets issued by speed cameras suggest local school systems have failed to properly monitor school bus drivers

A raft of new state laws take effect Monday. Children under 8-years-old will be required to sit in a booster seat or child seat until they reach a certain height, and morticians will have to follow stricter rules under legislation enacted by the General Assembly earlier this year.

State troopers on Friday will begin a new enforcement campaign targeting truckers and other commercial vehicle drivers who illegally park along Interstate 83 in Baltimore County, according to the Maryland State Police.

Pediatrician warns of dangers and what can happen to kids

Approving a Walmart Super Center at Route 924 and Plumtree Road would be an example of the poorest planning imaginable.

State Police and other Maryland law enforcement agencies conducted a truck safety dragnet, pulling hundreds of tractor-trailers off the Capital Beltway for inspection in a parking lot at FedEx Field.

AAA, MVA and Yellow Cab offering free taxis this weekend.

February saw spike in fatalities

A motorcycle rights group came to Annapolis to call on the General Assembly to pass a bill that would require Maryland tire dealers to inform consumers of research showing that tires deteriorate with age and that a federal agency recommends that they be replaced after six years even if the tread depth is adequate.

The Baltimore Sun recently spoke with Steve DiBiagio, PHH's senior vice president of strategic alliances, about distracted driving and the company's new technology.

Super Bowl party-goers should drink responsibly — and arrange for someone else to drive

Release of drunk driver over allegation of police quotas was a mistake

A Howard County judge's decision to throw out drunken-driving charges and rule that they were tied to illegal citation quotas may have ramifications beyond Thursday's case.

Speed cameras may be hated by some but they've made Maryland's highway construction zones safer

The losses of Sept. 11 are dwarfed by the number of Americans who have died in highway crashes yet U.S. continues to invest heavily in foreign oil

South Laurel: Open Arms Child Development Center welcomes new director and assistant director

AAA Mid-Atlantic says Congress should resist lobbying efforts, protect state's drivers and roads by saying no to huge new vehicles