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Baltimore firefighters Monday were dispatched to the Port of Baltimore for a fire that sent thick black smoke billowing from the city’s cruise terminal.

Grandeur of the Seas delays return to Baltimore until Sunday to avoid Tropical Storm Florence.

A Maryland State Police helicopter air-lifted a passenger having a critical medical emergency from a cruise ship in the Chesapeake Bay Thursday night, authorities said.

A Royal Caribbean Cruises ship that departed from Baltimore on a nine-night trip earlier this year has had 46 reported cases of gastrointestinal illness on board, according to company spokesman Owen Torres.

Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday he had directed 100 Maryland National Guardsmen to head for the U.S. Virgin Islands to help with hurricane relief efforts.

The Hampstead Volunteer Fire Department extended an invitation to the community to participate in the fire company's parade to be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday,

The port of Baltimore set a new volume record for general cargo — 10.1 million tons — at its public terminals in 2016, a five percent increase from the previous year, officials announced Tuesday.

Katie Falter and Tony Peck met on Match.com while living in Hawaii. They were married at the Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore in November.

Joanne C. Verner, a retired banker who later worked for a grocery store and steamship company, died July 6 from multiple myeloma at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 81.

North Carroll Senior Center offers Michigan and southern Caribbean trips

Royal Caribbean International cruises will sail year-round out of the Port of Baltimore through June 2020, according to a new contract announced by the Maryland Port Administration Thursday.

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Royal Caribbean's cruise to Labadee in Haiti has not only developed the area but a generated jobs for many and even boosted the economy. Furthermore, the work ethic, discipline and understanding of American culture these local employees have acquired are invaluable and may be of use in furthering U.S.-Haiti relations as well as the future development of the country.

Elvis is coming to the Lineboro fire company, and he'll be joined by the Maryland Entertainment Hall of Fame band, Rich and the Roadrunners.

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The Maryland State Police says one of their helicopter crews has airlifted a cruise ship passenger from a ship in the Chesapeake Bay to a Maryland hospital.

The Royal Caribbean cruise liner Grandeur of the Seas returned to Baltimore a day early on Monday after more than 200 passengers and crew members became sick.

The Coast Guard transported a 58-year-old woman off a cruise ship on the Potomac River Friday after she was injured in a fall.

Passengers on the Grandeur of the Seas left Baltimore for the Bahamas after ship was scrubbed after second wave of stomach illnesses

For the second time in two weeks, a Baltimore-based cruise ship is dealing with an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.

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The return of Carnival Pride to Baltimore offers a valuable lesson in economic growth and environmental protection

Cruise lines operating out of the port of Baltimore have not been affected by the longshoremen strike that has shuttered operations at the port's public marine terminals, according to port and cruise line officials.

It's hard to believe its September, summer is gone and the kids are back to school and some off to college.

Federal regulators have reached a tentative deal with Carnival Corp. on a plan to reduce air pollution from nearly a third of its cruise ships, but the accord comes too late to reverse at least a temporary loss of lucrative cruise business for Baltimore.

A Coast Guard admiral told a Senate panel holding a hearing on cruise ship oversight that while the investigation continues into the May fire aboard Baltimore-based Grandeur of the Seas, inspectors have ordered safety improvements for "immediate action."

The Port of Baltimore's cruise business was made whole Friday morning, when Grandeur of the Seas began loading passengers for its first ocean voyage since a fire put the vessel in dry dock more than six weeks ago.

Carnival Cruise Line's departure from Baltimore in 2014 need not put an end to local cruise ship business

Still smarting from news that half of Baltimore's lucrative cruise business is headed south next year, the state's ports chief said Friday that officials already are working on replacing the Carnival Pride.

Baltimore appears destined to lose lucrative cruise business next year, as Florida-based Carnival Cruise Lines announced Thursday that it plans to move its 2,124-passenger ship, the Pride, to Tampa, Fla., in November 2014.

Is there a double stand for pollution caused by cruise ships?

Gov. Martin O'Malley has interceded with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of Carnival Cruise Lines after the company threatened to pull its business from Baltimore over a pending air-quality regulation that would require large, ocean-going ships to burn cleaner fuel.

A passenger from the Royal Caribbean ship that caught on fire says a difficult situation was handled with grace.

They left Baltimore on Friday by cruise ship and came back Tuesday by charter jet. The passengers from the Grandeur of the Seas arrived safely and with sea stories to last a lifetime.

Passengers are being flown home and the crew is safe after a fire broke out Monday morning on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship that sailed from Baltimore on Friday.