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The story collection "Singapore Noir," explores a nation misunderstood by the West - Despite a slight decline in overall traffic at BWI Airport in 2013, international passengers increased by nearly 20 percent for the second straight year, airport officials said Monday.
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- Hundreds gathered at Ruck Towson Funeral Home to celebrate the life of Orioles great Paul Blair, a smiling, always-chatting Gold Glove center fielder who helped lead Baltimore to four World Series and two world championships.
- The tail end of a winter storm brought some sprinkles of sleet and snow to Maryland on Wednesday on top of heavy rains, but few travel disruptions were reported outside of New England despite concerns of chaotic pre-Thanksgiving transportation.
- Temperatures were forecast to rise into the mid-40s by Wednesday morning in the Baltimore area as rain continues, but gusty winds and possible snowflakes could still blow in by the afternoon to again slow those traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday.
- Icy and snowy conditions could bookend a storm that is otherwise expected to dump heavy rains on busy pre-Thanksgiving travel days Tuesday and Wednesday in Maryland and many parts of the eastern United States.
- The 'Baggage Claim' writer-director started writing as a student at Morgan, enjoys showing the city in a positive light.
- If Congress doesn't pass a bill to keep the federal helium reserve in operation, research labs, MRI machines and semiconductor manufacturing will shut down
- More Maryland residents are planning holiday trips than last year, and most are traveling by automobile despite local gas prices that are the highest they have ever been at this time of year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
- This week, we say farewell to the curious passport-stealing cab drivers of Russia. Time to go to someplace with a red, white, and blue flag. No, the other place
- Saturday starts quietly as Maryland transportation officials brace for Sunday's post-Thanksgiving traffic crush
- A AAA Mid-Atlantic survey to be released Friday indicates that most Maryland residents with travel plans — 91 percent — will be going by car. About 883,000 travelers — or roughly one in six residents — are going somewhere for the holiday, according to the survey.
- BWI Marshall Airport begins new security screening, prepares to reopen its longest runway as holiday season approaches
- Thanksgiving airfare bargain hunters will have to begin looking especially early this year.
- For 72 hours only, Southwest Airlines is offering a fall fare sale with one-way nonstop flights starting at $49.
- 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.
- Orioles: Centerfielder enjoys off-season trips to resort that offers sun and fun
- For second year in a row, BWI sets passenger record in 2011.
- The end of the war in Iraq had sent thousands of military service members home just in time for the holidays. Many pass through Baltimore Washington International Airport, before returning to families and, often, babies born while they were away.
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- A Marine and his fiance will spend the holidays in Miami thanks to a generous Maryland couple.
- State approves a $100 million renovation of BWI Airport.
- Rec sports for Howard County
- A Columbia startup is using a helicopter to hover over traffic and events in the Baltimore-Washington area with messages scrolling across a huge digital billboard.
- Elaine Harmon, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, spent time with students at Folly Quarter Middle School and their families sharing her World War II experiences.
- A woman gave birth to a baby boy at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Sunday afternoon, shortly after stepping off an incoming flight.
- Travelers were moving briskly through check-in and security lines at BWI on the afternoon before Thanksgiving, though airport officials expect to serve twice as many as an average Wednesday.
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- BWI plans a $100 million expansion that will transform central section of the airport.
- A philanthropist and jokester, fullback Leach almost never puts himself first. First-year Raven faces his former team Sunday
- Airfares can fluctuate even within the span of a few hours, but the direction of holiday travel prices is one way: up.
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