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AAA forecasts 4 percent increase in Marylanders traveling for Thanksgiving

Balto. Co. water main break affects about 120 homes

A 12-inch water main break Thursday morning in eastern Baltimore County affected about 120 homes and caused traffic detours at the...

Estimates panel to get bridge-replacement contracts today

The Dixon administration is expected to bring two contracts before the Board of Estimates today cementing its two-year-old accord with CSX...

 

AAA predicts rise in Thanksgiving travel

AAA is forecasting a 1.4 percent increase in Thanksgiving travel over last year's recession-battered holiday, pointing to what appears to be...

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In mating season, how to avoid a date with a deer

This is a very good time of year to become obsessive about deer.

Third mixed-use project sought along MARC line

A developer is planning Howard County's third urban-style mixed-use development along the MARC rail commuter line near Elkridge, a site long expected to be used for a Coca-Cola bottling plant.

Death of man who jumped onto I-95 ruled a suicide

A man who jumped from Md. Route 100 onto southbound Interstate-95 Sunday afternoon near the Howard and Anne Arundel counties line was killed when he landed on top of a multi-passenger vehicle, said state police at the Waterloo Barracks. The death has been ruled a suicide and the man's identity was...

Nissan is turning over a new zero-emission Leaf

On the vast expanse of asphalt outside Dodger Stadium, Nissan Motor Co.'s new electric car made its U.S. debut Friday, zipping quietly through a maze of orange cones on its way to what the Japanese automaker hopes will be the top of the clean transportation class.

Temple Hills man convicted in 2008 killing along I-95

A Harford County jury has found a 33-year-old Temple Hills man guilty of first-degree murder and five other counts in the killing last year of a Havre de Grace resident during an attempted robbery on Interstate 95. Demetrius D. Lovelace is to be sentenced Jan. 25, said Joseph I. Cassilly, the state'...

Laurel man, 54, killed in collision on Route 32

A 54-year-old Laurel man was killed Thursday morning when his automobile was struck on Route 32 in West Friendship by a sport utility vehicle that witnesses said crossed the double yellow line, Howard County police said. Gilbert Leon Trowbridge II of the 8600 block Norfolk Ave. was traveling north...

Driver of SUV injured in crash with Harford school bus in Balto. Co.

A school bus taking Harford County students to the Maryland School for the Blind in Parkville was struck by a sport utility vehicle Wednesday morning in northeastern Baltimore County, according to a spokeswoman for Harford public schools.

6-car crash on I-795 closes highway 2 hours

A northbound vehicle that crossed a grassy median and hit five southbound cars closed southbound Interstate 795 for two hours Tuesday, state police said. Police identified the driver of the northbound 1999 Lexus 300 as Antonio Martinez, 44, of Owings Mills. He was in good condition at Maryland Shock...

Less rest for road-weary

That old adage "No rest for the weary" could have been coined with Mark and Barbara Van Art in mind.

Study: Md. ranks 49th in spending to keep walkers, bicyclists safe

Maryland, with a pedestrian death rate that is significantly higher than the national average, ranks second from the bottom nationally in its spending of federal transportation funds on resources for walkers and bicyclists, according to a study released Monday.

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