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How much should the county government charge for use of its property by outsiders became a sub-theme at the most recent Harford County Board of Estimates meeting.

Teen killed was just blocks from the Baltimore Ravens parade route on Tuesday

As the Baltimore Ravens get ready to take on the 49ers in New Orleans, back home officials are getting ready to deal with what they hope will be an joyful but not too rowdy night of drinking and — hopefully — celebration

With the Big Game just around the corner, residents planning to watch the Super Bowl from a bar in Harford County might consider getting there early.

Steve O'Donnell, president of the Elkridge steel distributor Steven F. O'Donnell Inc., purchased the beloved Irish staple for $430,000.

According to Baltimore County Police crash statistics and residents who have long lived along the 5400, 5500 and 5600 blocks of the road — which juts north from Leakin Park and the city line toward Woodlawn — the residential stretch just past Kernan Hospital is treated by many motorists as a dangerous two-lane raceway. And residents are up in arms about it.

Joseph B. Kelly, the dean of Maryland turf writers and nationally known thoroughbred historian, died Monday of cancer.

Towson melee riles McDonoughs

Incident in Towson not nearly as troubling as what Inner Harbor confronts

The unruly, violent crowds that descended on Towson and downtown Baltimore this year — fueled by Twitter and Facebook — can also provide real-time information police trained to search social media sites.

Critics are too harsh in calling Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake callous for trumpeting the city's efforts to keep the Inner Harbor safe this summer.

While the folks wearing green shirts were looking for items as part of a scavenger hunt, they were helping in a small way to find effective treatments for melanoma.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Maryland students suffered brain injuries this year playing sports.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake touted Tuesday a summer of safe high-profile events in the downtown area – part of a strategy, aides said, to refute those who have characterized the Inner Harbor as unsafe.

Joseph Patrick Byrne, founder and proprietor of J. Patrick's, a Locust Point tavern known for its Irish music and fare, died Saturday of cancer at Harbor Hospital. He was 81.

St. Patrick's Day attackers plead guilty in videotaped beating

Dozens of Independence Day parades were held Wednesday in Maryland, from do-it-yourself affairs consisting of three kids on bikes and a little red wagon to larger events popular enough to cause traffic jams.

The Rev. Gerald "Gerry" Vincent Lardner, a Sulpician priest who taught preaching and later served as a missionary in Africa, died of cancer June 18 at Mercy Medical Center. He was 70 and lived in North Baltimore.

A dramatic air show by the Blue Angels marked the crescendo of festivities for the Star-Spangled Sailabration from Fort McHenry to Fells Point on Saturday.

The extra police officers sent to the Inner Harbor and downtown to combat unruly youths and crime this past weekend recorded 40 arrests, including more than 10 for drug possession, and two handguns.

Baltimore police are investigating two more attacks that occurred downtown, the latest Thursday morning in which a 51-year-old federal worker was assaulted by a group of youths.

Fight crime in downtown Baltimore by helping all city neighborhoods

The ongoing debate over youth crime in downtown Baltimore has sparked a war of words over race — overshadowing a debate over the police response to disturbances and objections from city politicians who say the issue is vastly overblown.

The delegate from the city's northern suburbs is sounding off again about Baltimore crime, calling for the mayor to resign unless she convenes a "solutions summit" and demanding a "citywide curfew" be put in place.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake tours the downtown area Friday night after reports of a St. Patrick's Day disturbance is scaring some people away. She announces summer police deployment plan.

Crime in downtown Baltimore is rampant and under-reported

Man, 19, beaten by two groups of students downtown

Baltimore must guard against a repeat of St. Patrick's Day flash mob

Where others might view the unruly mob behavior on St. Patrick's Day at the Inner Harbor as criminal, Pat McDonough sees "black youths"

Violent mayhem at the Inner Harbor on St. Patrick's Day is unacceptable

Initial reports of St. Patrick's Day melee at Baltimore's Inner Harbor lacked transparency

Baltimore officials downplayed the significance of a mass altercation at the Inner Harbor.

There is a disconnect sometimes between what police see as normal and routine and what others view as scary.

Police, city officials and business leaders react to the violence on St. Patrick's Day, which they call an isolated incident that gives people the wrong perception that crime is out of control. Meanwhile, some residents feel city tried to cover up how bad it really was.

Sunday's story on violence at St. Patrick's Day attracted many reactions. Most people writing me emails and in comments at the bottom story said the city had become scary. It's further proof of the uphill battle the city has trying to show improving crime numbers.

Reporters staffing the newsroom on Saturday, March 17, had some inkling that a large crowd had converged on downtown. But initial calls to police downplayed the events, noting large crowds but not too many problems.

Police dispatch tapes describe teens fighting all over downtown Baltimore and the Inner Harbor, with far more mayhem than originally described by authorities.

More than half of the 24 charges filed against four people accused in the brutal St. Patrick's Day attack of a tourist in Baltimore, which was videotaped and widely viewed online, have been dropped.

Baltimore breaking news: Wednesday lunchtime lowdown

Police dispatch recordings highlighted the violence as hundreds of youths from Baltimore's east and west sides converged on downtown on St. Patrick's Day

Generous helpings of fresh mint and lime make Little Havana's Mojito the best in Baltimore

Baltimore police just announced the arrest of the fourth and final suspect charged in the videotaped beating and stripping of a tourist that was videotaped and watched across the country on the Internet.

The head of the Fells Prospect Community Association, Victor Corbin, wrote me to add his voice to a chorus of complaints about St. Patrick's Day celebrations. As we've reported, police wrongly allowed people to drink in O'Donnell Square in Canton, creating a mess akin to the Preakness infield.