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The Lantern Queen Riverboat, a traveling fixture on the Upper Chesapeake Bay and lower Susquehanna River since 1996, had made its last trip.

The Constellation, a mainstay in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, will undergo $750,000 in repairs to fix rotting in its hull.

The U.S. Coast Guard's shipyard in Curtis Bay has nailed down some new work in the next five years, signing a memorandum of understanding to provide ship maintenance for the Atlantic fleet of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

About 100 gallons of diesel fuel spilled from a rooftop generator at Bond Street Wharf into the Fells Point harbor Sunday, Maryland environmental officials said.

An uptick in black admissions among the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's Class of 2018 is certainly promising, but the academy has made progress in the past and then failed to sustain its diversity gains.

The Cecil County Fair wrapped up after nine days of fun with only minimal weather disruptions last week

The Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW Post 8185 served dinner to a group of veterans from Perry Point VA on July 13 at the post home. Ladies Auxiliary President Kathy Heaton and her kitchen crew of Stephanie Gibson, Anne Gibson, Steven Farley, Shirley Eller and Brenda Alexander served up barbecue chicken and fixings while Shirley Mackey led the large group in line dancing

The U.S. Coast Guard is looking to identify a Southern Maryland caller officials said made nearly more than a dozen false distress calls in recent weeks.

The rest of the week is expected to offer a respite after several days of oppressive humidity and severe thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service.

Three people have died in Maryland waters in as many days, and a U.S. Coast Guard search is underway for another who went missing Monday

Emergency personnel will converge on Inner Harbor waters near Canton on Wednesday as part of a staged water taxi disaster, an event geared toward assessing rescue capabilities and practicing response techniques.

A series of severe storms blew through the Baltimore region Monday evening, bringing heavy rain, lightning and strong winds that factored into at least one death, officials say.

When Samuel L. Morison of Crofton this week with stealing documents from the United States Navy's archive in Washington, it was a rare event for the archive.

Rescue effort fails to save ocean swimmer caught in rip current.

As the nation enjoys a boom in crude oil production and grapples with the heightened risks and logistical constraints of moving ever-increasing volumes of the volatile commodity through its cities and towns, two companies in Baltimore appear to be carving out a new local foothold for the industry.

The first large, prefrabricated section of a new traffic tunnel planned in Virginia began floating down the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore on Tuesday.

An 18-year-old from Montgomery County was hospitalized after getting caught in a rip tide while swimming in Ocean City on Monday, authorities said.

Four people were rescued when their boat overheated, caught fire and began to sink on the Patapsco River Sunday morning.

Byron G. "Geoff" Tosi Jr., who was the semi-retired president and CEO of Albre Marble Restoration Specialist Inc., died Friday of complications from emphysema at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 70.

Amtrak and commuter rail service across the Susquehanna River was back to normal Thursday morning, hours after a tugboat crashed into the bridge between Harford and Cecil counties, causing delays to trains while inspectors checked the span and deemed it safe.

A tug boat struck the Susquehanna River Bridge Wednesday night, delaying trains from crossing between Cecil and Harford counties

Harford County held a veterans' muster in Bel Air Saturday, an event designed to get Harford and Cecil county veterans connected with the appropriate services, as well as to honor veterans of the Vietnam War era and women who served during the World War II, Korean War and Vietnam eras.

Harford County Commission on Veterans' Affairs is hosting Veterans' Muster from 9 a.m. to noon May 17 at the William N. McFaul Activities Center at 525 W. MacPhail Road in Bel Air.

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The U.S. Coast Guard will be enforcing a security perimeter around a waterfront Cambridge hotel this week to protect a gathering of House Democrats.

Loyola Blakefield coach Keith Schertle is hesitant to name the best senior on his team.

Carnival Cruise Lines announced on Thursday that it will be returning its Pride cruise liner to the port of Baltimore in March, after new technologies helped it meet federal environmental regulations that threatened to drive up costs.

As a second blast of cold to hit the region this month lingers, ice is collecting on local bays, rivers and canals as it hasn't since perhaps the 1990s, crimping seafood harvests, jacking up energy bills for marinas and prompting warnings for daredevils in ice skates.

The U.S. Coast Guard will be enforcing a 500-yard perimeter around a waterfront hotel in Cambridge this week to protect an event for House Republicans.

The mass of some of the coldest air to descend on the United States in two decades brought wind chills to as cold as 15 degrees below zero in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, shattering at least one record with more cold lasting into Wednesday.

A flatbed truck pulled away from the port of Baltimore last week carrying uranium once packed into nuclear warheads aimed at the United States.

Layering on another environmental impact statement to the Cove Point LNG export proposal — potentially adding significant delays and expense so soon after another impact statement has been completed — is like asking a driver to begin with a learner's permit every time the license is renewed.

Baltimore Beltway near Route 295 in Anne Arundel County has reopened after a four-vehicle collision had closed the roadway, according to the state Department of Transportation.

With the clearing of a single-vehicle crash with injury on US 50 West in Parole, state and local transportation departments reported no unscheduled road closures at 8:42 a.m. on Wednesday.

After a challenging morning — particularly on the south and west sides of the beltway — traffic appears to be clearing out as of 9 a.m. around Baltimore. Maryland Department of Transportation cameras show that things are moving, though slowly in some areas.

The Boy Scouts of Troop 007 left no stones unturned during the summer of 2013. This local troop meets for regular meetings on Monday evenings at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Glenwood.

Maryland prisoners are training service dogs for veterans, in a program that has transformed hardened criminals into empathetic souls with soft hearts.

The port of Baltimore's public marine terminals have earned a positive security assessment from the U.S. Coast Guard for the sixth year in a row, the Maryland Port Administration announced Thursday.

In White Marsh, a two-vehicle collision on I-95 South prior to the MD 43 (White Marsh) exit has kept the southbound right shoulder closed for an hour after the incident occurred at 8:07 a.m., according to the state Department of Transportation.

The Baltimore City Department of Public Works said on Thursday morning that traffic along Pratt Street is still hampered by a Wednesday water main break at Market Place.

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In Baltimore County, all but one travel lane and both shoulders are closed on US 40 West at MD 43 due to police activity at 8 a.m. on Friday, according to state and local officials.

The state Department of Transportation on Wednesday said that traffic on the northbound Baltimore Washington Parkway in Anne Arundel County has been reopened at 8:12 a.m. as officials work to clear portions of the roadway that according to the U.S. Park Police had been completely shutdown due to an early morning accident resulting in a pedestrian fatality.

A three-vehicle collision in Baltimore City on Interstate 95 South at the Baltimore Washington Parkway exit has closed three of four southbound traffic lanes and both southbound shoulders at 8:45 a.m. on Wednesday, according to the state Department of Transportation.