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- The principal of Frederick Douglass High School pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing nearly $2 million from the federal government while overseeing a day care in Georgia for needy children.
- Chip Sheehan, a retired Secret Service driving instructor, is now the President of StreetSmarts, a local driver's education program based in Howard County.
- Jonathan Slade and his wife, Novia Campbell, are no strangers to road trips.
- Baltimore officials are set to approve spending nearly $30 million to replace 338 aging vehicles, including providing the city's Fire Department with its first new fire trucks in four years.
- Harford county arrest and incident reports
- A man nearly drove his car off the end of the runway in the Forest Hill Industrial Park early Wednesday evening.
- Traffic, environmental degradation, property damage, diminished home values were among the litany of issues raised by about 40 people who attended a community input meeting on a proposal to build up to 46 townhouses on a narrow property off Red Pump Road north of Bel Air.
- The Rawlings-Blake administration is proposing new regulations for the city's rapidly growing food truck industry — setting up zones for the mobile chefs to sell their designer grilled-cheese sandwiches, spicy tacos and decadent cup cakes. But the city's proposal was in flux Monday night. A city official said the administration might amend the plan to allow trucks to operate outside the zones as well.
- Gladiators get 22 points from Dom Napolitano and 20 from Nick Oates en route to 70-50 victory over Wilde Lake in opening-round playoff game.
- The Bel Air Board of Commissioners voted on Tuesday night to move forward with the second phase of establishing a regional water authority in Harford County.
- Food truck operators packed into Baltimore City Council chambers on Tuesday to testify on an administration bill that would change the way food trucks operate in the city. The food-truck vendors told the committee they are concerned about new parking restrictions and other provisions in the bill, which would turn over turn over the supervision of food trucks to the city¿s department of general services.
- Police: Woman's boyfriend hits her estranged husband's brother with baseball bat, car during fight at child exchange Monday
- Institutions across Harford County are scheduled to be closed or open late Thursday, moves announced before the first flakes hit the area Wednesday night.
- The Maryland roster for the Big 33 Football Classic will be announced in early March, but the names of a few local players have already been released. McDonogh¿s Josh Woods, Meade¿s Jake Hawk, Fallston¿s Alex Helm and Archbishop Spalding's Zach Abey will play in the all-star game, which pits Maryland's best high school football players against Pennsylvania's.
- Bel Air could be the third and final municipality in Harford County to sign on to the second phase of implementing a regional water and sewer authority, if the members of the Board of Town Commissioners approve a memorandum of understanding during their next meeting.
- A Naval Academy midshipman once accused of sexual assault – and now testifying as a witness in a classmate's criminal case – said Tuesday that the alleged victim wasn't too drunk to know what she was doing.
- A Naval Academy midshipman once accused of sexual assault – and now testifying as a witness in a classmate's criminal case – said Tuesday that the alleged victim wasn't too drunk to know what she was doing.
- Howard County Motorcycle Swap Meet held at the Howard County Fairgrounds Jan. 26.
- For Arbutus resident Arlene Castro, buying a used car from the Freedom Wheels lot was "an answer to a prayer." When Castro's 1999 Toyota was totaled in an accident, the settlement check from her insurance company wasn't enough to buy a comparable car.
- Children in 2014 have an array of sophisticated electronic toys and games at their disposal, but on Saturday, the attention of two groups of boys and girls was captured by simple wooden cars, which they made, racing on a short track.
- A developer wants to buy city-owned property near the Fairfield Marine Terminal to turn it into more parking for the port of Baltimore's thriving automobile industry.
- The woman who was riding in a vehicle with Tyrone West moments before he died in police custody said he fought with officers but continued to be hit after he gave up, according to a recording of her interview with police.
- Uber -- the company that allows users to hail a car via a smartphone app -- is drastically cutting prices in several markets including Baltimore.
- Maryland's two-tier license system a step too far for illegal immigrants
- Allowing undocumented immigrants to drive legally will make the roads safer for everyone
- For the second time in three days, Anne Arundel County police say a child was left unattended in a vehicle in the Hanover area.
- Maryland officials have decided to give 540 "concentrated animal feeding operations" (CAFOs) — industrial-style chicken farms mostly — a free ride, waiving more than $400,000 in legally mandated fees this year alone.
- My 4-year-old Lab loves to ride in the car, but barks almost nonstop. Eventually he falls asleep, but until then it's deafening and stressful. He doesn't do this any other time. How can we get him to stop?
- Winning Mega Millions tickets for Tuesday's $636 million jackpot were sold in California and Georgia.
- If there is no winner in Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing, the pot will stand at nearly $1 billion – head and shoulders above the existing U.S. record lottery jackpot of $656 million.
- Picking the right people to help with your wedding involves interviewing, negotiating and counseling.
- Laurel Shopping Center was a pioneer in local retail, and the men behind its development were visionaries who turned a then-radical idea into a successful enterprise that helped change the face of retail in the Baltimore/Washington area.
- Aiming to boost the fledgling market for plug-in vehicles, Maryland and seven other states pledged Thursday to use their governments' tax and spending powers to get 3.3 million "zero-emission" cars, trucks and vans on the road in the next dozen years.
- ESPN personality Scott Van Pelt was in College Park on Saturday for Maryland¿s 27-26 win over Virginia. He was happy with the result, of course. He was not happy with the small swath of students who saw it.
- A recap of week 2 of 'Top Chef," as the chefs cook for Habitat for Humanity
- New food truck kicked out of Halethorpe MARC station
- The Glenelg High School Robotics Club spent a day at the Baltimore Grand Prix showing off the robot the members built.
- If it were not for the plate in his body armor, Army Sgt. Joe Morrissey would never have been married, and his daughter would not be ready to enter the world in a matter of weeks.
- Commuters are forced to pay too much to cross Maryland's Susquehanna River
- An Edgewood man was ordered held without bond after he allegedly assaulted and attempted to rob a woman at a gas station last week, according to charging documents.
- Living Classrooms has become a nationwide model for helping at-risk kids and young adults turn their lives around
- A proposed pricing structure for electronic toll lanes set to open next year along Interstate 95 northeast of Baltimore was approved Thursday by the Maryland Transportation Authority Board.
- Simon Pagenaud gave notice Saturday when he posted the fastest practice lap for the Grand Prix of Baltimore¿s Izod IndyCar Series race a year after finishing third behind Ryan Hunter-Reay.