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Recent 'dragnet' gives wrong impression of Maryland truckers' safety record

Ravens fan celebrate Super Bowl win during nuptials

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.

Gov. Martin O'Malley's bill has passed the General Assembly, but daunting regulatory, political and financial hurdles remain before a wind-driven power plant could be built in the water 10 miles from Ocean City.

Seven years after opening the South Locust Point cruise ship berth and terminal, Maryland port officials say it is at capacity. Without expansion, the record-breaking annual statistics will level off to a profitable plateau of about 100 cruises and 241,000 passengers a year.

Business, labor groups back gas tax increase

The union representing 14,500 East Coast and Gulf longshoremen and the representative of 43 port operators and shipping companies approved a six-year deal, a federal mediator announced Wednesday afternoon.

Three women known for strong will and public accomplishment received the Maryland Senate's First Citizen awards Wednesday, capping an annual tradition in the upper chamber.

Teamwork made the Port's success possible

Michael Kendrat, a Carroll County native and 26-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, has been named chief of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police.

The Port of Baltimore led the nation in vehicle and roll on/roll off traffic in 2012 and surpassed previous marks for general cargo handling, state officials said Wednesday.

It's something to think about when noticing that a flag flying over a county building appears to have too many stripes (15) and too few stars (15).

Baltimore County Police seized a number of products from more than dozen vendors Saturday at the Plaza Flea Market in Dundalk.

John R. Duffy, a retired Baltimore police officer and World War II Navy veteran who witnessed the Japanese surrender, died Wednesday from a heart attack at the Ivy Hall Nursing Home in Middle River. He was 87.

Dock workers and the management of 15 East Coast and Gulf ports reached a tentative agreement on a new master contract late Friday night, averting a threatened walkout on Wednesday.

Longshoremen and the management of East Coast and Gulf ports reached a tentative agreement on a new master contract late Friday night, averting a threatened walkout next week.

Cruise traffic at the port of Baltimore last year dipped slightly from 2011, snapping a four-year string of increases.

Busch names panel on Baltimore area revitalization

With a little more than two weeks to go before a contract extension between East Coast and Gulf dockworkers and port operators expires, the federal mediator said Thursday that progress is being made toward a long-term settlement.

After sediment threatened to squeeze the approach channel to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers and Port of Baltimore improvised a solution to unclog the passageway.

Former members of Congress from Maryland have found new ways to continue their service. Several of them now report a kind of relief at having left the endless fundraising, the unrelenting schedule and the partisan rancor behind

A weekend strike by dockworkers from Maine to Texas has been averted after union and management negotiators settled a major sticking point and agreed to extend the contract deadline for 30 days while they hammer out the rest of the six-year deal.

Retail giants, shipping companies and federal agencies are racing the clock to make plans as the possibility of an East Coast and Gulf dock strike this weekend appears to be more likely.

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.

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.

The planned demolition of the Sparrows Point mill means an end to steelmaking in eastern Baltimore County, but not necessarily the end of manufacturing and heavy industry there.

The owners of the Sparrows Point steel mill plan to raze the closed plant, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said Thursday, as political leaders from Towson to Washington mourned the loss of a landmark that once employed tens of thousands.

An out-of-state steelmaker has bought the most valuable piece of the Sparrows Point plant to use as spare parts, likely signaling the death knell for hopes that the steel mill would be purchased by an operator and reopened.

The Port of Baltimore has seen its 1 millionth passenger sail on a cruise ship.

Influential Democrat played key role in success of Baltimore's port

With the first three quarters of 2012 in the ledger, the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore appears poised to top several of last year's cargo records.

Five released on bail

The Baltimore Planning Department is beginning a series of public events Wednesday to introduce the public to the first comprehensive zoning legislation introduced in more than 40 years.

Former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell says U.S. must spend more on infrastructure or risk losing its economic edge

Theodore K. Sanderson Jr., a retired Maryland Port Administration operations specialist who was also an avid outdoorsman, died Oct. 24 from complications of Alzheimer's disease at his Bird River home. He was 77.

The sold-out cruise, called the "cruise to nowhere," hosted many residents from the areas along the eastern seaboard that were spared from the worst of the hurricane-turned-superstorm's wrath, many of whom said the convenience of hopping on Interstate 95 was a draw to the deal.

Despite the disruption of widespread shutdowns Monday and Tuesday, the Baltimore area missed the worst of Sandy's wallop. The overall economic impact should be modest as a result, economists say, even if for some businesses and residents it was anything but.

Transportation creeps back after Sandy slams area.

As much of the Baltimore region shut down Monday, some businesses made sure they could stay open — come hurricane and high water.

As the eye of Hurricane Sandy loomed over the waters some 500 miles southeast of Washington, and the monster storm churned toward the Mid-Atlantic coast at 15 miles per hour, Marylanders braced Sunday for the arrival of a weather system some forecasters were calling potentially the most damaging to hit the United States in 75 years.

Gov. Martin O'Malley has canceled Monday's early voting in Maryland due to Hurricane Sandy's expected arrival. Government offices and schools around the region also have announced that they plan to close Monday, and some flights out of BWI have been canceled.