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- A segregated West Baltimore school where the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall received his early education is set to receive a $6 million makeover, turning it into a legal resource center and museum space.
- After flyovers kicked off the Arbutus Fourth of July Parade for seven consecutive years, the 2012 Independence Day celebration went without because the Maryland Air National Guard was deployed in Afghanistan.
- Emergency response teams and hazardous materials crews responded to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Thursday afternoon after a flight attendant on an inbound Southwest Airlines flight fell ill, airport officials said.
- Penn State report faults Paterno in Sandusky scandal, Columbia teen dies in crash, and Green Party convention begins in Baltimore.
- High temperatures and intense heat caused the pavement of four eastbound lanes of Route 50 in Prince George's County to buckle on Sunday afternoon, forcing the State Highway Administration to close the lanes to traffic. The SHA will begin repairs and look for any structural damage starting Sunday night.
- A Baltimore County man is the 12th victim of a storm and heat wave in Maryland, and 20,000 power outages remain.
- Temperatures reached 103 degrees at BWI Marshall Airport and 106 degrees in downtown Baltimore on Friday as a heat wave intensified over much of the eastern U.S.
- Two weeks before a Morgan State University student was arrested in the killing of a housemate, campus police received a report that he had a machete.
- Nine tornadoes tore through Maryland on Friday. Six counties saw twisters during Friday's storm.
- The Bay Bridge is the largest potential bottleneck for the Memorial Day weekend, with more than 1.8 million motorists expected to swarm Maryland toll facilities from Friday to Monday as part of the unofficial start of summer.
- Controversy over Doug O'Neill 'milkshaking' allegations raises requests for a central governing body for horse racing.
- WASHINGTON — Local homeland security officials in Baltimore and across the country are fighting a proposal to change how $2 billion in federal emergency management money is distributed — a change they say would jeopardize regional efforts to respond to terrorist attacks, major storms and other disasters.
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- Turn-by-turn directions for getting downtown during lane closures on the JFX.
- TRIP, a national transportation research group, ranks Maryland's 40 most-needed transportation projects
- Janet Siddiqui, Ann De Lacy, Ellen Giles, Jackie Scott, David Gertler progress to General Election; last spot between Patricia Gordon and Bob Ballinger too close to call.
- As gas prices soar, Baltimore residents need to ask why we don't have a better public transportation system.
- BWI will be one of the first airports to get new jets from Southwest.
- Profiles of 14 candidates for Howard County Board of Education
- Butler, DeLacy, Gertler, Giles, Kornreich, Scott endorsed for Howard County Board of Education
- A cool front prevented Baltimore from nearing a March heat record, as expected, but temperatures remain 20 degrees warmer than normal.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley's gas tax plan may be unpopular but the outlook for Maryland commuters is far worse if lawmakers fail to support it
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- Members of the Arch Social Club, at North and Pennsylvania avenues, are about to have a party.
- .38-caliber gun found while woman was traveling through airport security, police say
- Llewellyn Washington Woolford Sr., a retired Social Security Administration attorney who was a past Howard County Human Relations Commission chairman, died of stroke complications Feb. 22 at his Columbia home. He was 81.
- Images of nearly 5,000 Baltimoreans are the life's work of a photographer who documented racial segregation of the era and early protests, and captured candid moments of now-anonymous brides, classmates, football players and black residents.
- When the country's largest African American museum opens on the National Mall in Washington, D. C., people and places from Maryland will get a healthy share of the limelight.
- As County Executive Ken Ulman spends more time making connections in other parts of the state, other gubernatorial hopefuls will be looking to make some connections of their own — here in Howard County.
- The Baltimore chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded a century ago today, three years after the organization was founded in New York City.
- John B. "Jack" Owens, who had been a principal in Owens Yacht Co., the legendary Annapolis boat builder, and later started a family-owned real estate firm, died Saturday of heart failure at his Naples, Fla., home. He was 96.
- Traffic: Accident on I-95 northbound near Caton Avenue
- A small Gulfstream private jet overshot a runway Monday night at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport, causing no injuries to the two people aboard and no commercial delays.
- The three teens who died in a fiery head-on collision on U.S. 50 early Saturday were all recent graduates of two Anne Arundel high schools returning from a birthday party.
- More details on Camden Yards improvements, statues
- The unidentified substance found Wednesday on a Baltimore-bound Southwest flight was determined to be not a threat, a spokeswoman for the airline said.
- Shirley Luby, only the second woman to be commander at Laurel American Legion Laurel Post 60, reaches out to the community with expanded programs and new ideas
- BWI plans a $100 million expansion that will transform central section of the airport.
- The Baltimore man who traveled to Libya in February, at the start of a political uprising there, returns to Baltimore
- Jaime Arbona, former customs agent for the ports of entry to Baltimore, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Oct. 20 at his Cedarcroft home. He was 88.
- Leadership U is a part of Columbia-based Leadership Howard County, a nonprofit organization that helps Howard citizens improve their community through development of leadership skills and outreach programs.
- Air Force jets intercept and escort plane back to Baltimore
- Thurgood Marshall represents an Arbutus man who brought suit against Baltimore County to allow his daughter to attend Catonsville High School
- Baltimore should celebrate and promote its unique cultural place among African-Americans