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- Vehicles will soon start rolling off ships at the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County.
- Baltimore-based book bank is collecting textbooks for children in Ebola-stricken country.
- On Sept. 30, each of the Maryland Food Bank's three facilities, representatives from the Maryland State Police and the Maryland Department of Transportation joined food bank executives in welcoming a donation of 33,405 pounds of donated food.
- Industry growth and a tide of employee retirements in Baltimore's transportation sector will create or leave open thousands of jobs by 2020, but local job seekers aren't prepared to fill them, according to a study released Monday by the Opportunity Collaborative.
- A Japanese company will pay a nearly $70 million fine after agreeing to plead guilty to fixing prices and rigging bids for shipping services at the Port of Baltimore, the Justice Department said Friday.
- "K" Line and others conspired ¿to suppress and eliminate competition by allocating customers and routes, rigging bids, and fixing prices for international ocean shipping services for roll-on, roll-off cargo, such as cars and trucks, to and from the United States and elsewhere¿ between 1997 and 2012.
- A panel of transportation gurus who gathered in downtown Baltimore on Thursday all agreed the federal transportation system is broken, but not on how to fix it.
- State and federal environmental officials have reached cleanup agreements with the owners of the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County.
- None of the business leaders, politicians or the economic analysts quoted by The Sun mention the health costs of locating a new industrial CSX facility near a residential neighborhood. No one put a price tag on the proposed increase in air pollution, its health effects and the resulting loss in productivity.
- Liberians and Marylanders are vitally connected, and like many Americans, we in Maryland have watched and listened to the graphic daily news stories chronicling Ebola's escalating devastation in Liberia and other West African nations.
- County Executive Kevin Kamenetz has appointed a task force to try and create a profitable future for the land that once held a thriving steel mill.
- Baltimore County police have charged a 32-year-old man with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his pregnant girlfriend in June.
- Other East Coast ports must be cheering Md.'s failure on an intermodal cargo facility.
- State officials looking to tap anticipated growth in the East Coast shipping industry are back at the drawing board after abandoning a freight rail project that has been central to their strategy for half a decade.
- The decision not to move ahead with a planned CSX intermodal rail facility in Southwest Baltimore is a major blow to city's port
- State officials have pulled more than $30 million in designated funding from a proposed rail cargo transfer facility in an economically depressed corner of West Baltimore, after local residents put up more of a fight than was expected.
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- Immigrants from Kythera, Skyros and other parts of Greece came to Carroll County
- Longshoremen who went on strike last year at the port of Baltimore have claimed they are not liable for related losses sustained by their employers in part because a coastwide labor contract banning such strikes does not apply to them.
- A caterpillar species never before seen in the Baltimore area and considered a potential threat to local agriculture production was intercepted at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said Friday.
- Customs agents seized more than $25,000 from a Nigerian man who arrived at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport from London on Wednesday after he failed to disclose the cash.
- A Jessup-based third party logistics company plans to move to a bigger facility near the Port of Baltimore this fall, brokers for the deal said Tuesday.
- Public and private leaders of the Jordanian city of Aqaba visited Baltimore on Wednesday to learn about creating a tourist destination from an industrial port.
- Voters trickled out of Hillcrest Elementary School, one of 18 polling places for the District 44B race for state delegate, on Tuesday evening to cast their ballots for the primary election before polls closed at 8 p.m.
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- Larry Hogan isn't pledging to turn deep blue Maryland red if he's elected governor. He doesn't even hold out a lot of hope for purple. He just thinks that if he can win the Republican primary, he can beat the Democratic nominee and fundamentally change the way the state does business.