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BJ's to sell gas for $2.50 gallon to kick off summer

2013-05-22 03:47:00

Gas won’t get any cheaper than this. BJ's Wholesale Club will sell regular unleaded fuel for $2.50 a gallon starting at 6:30 a.m. Thursday at its White Marsh store gas station. �The discounter is tying the promotion to Memorial Day weekend,...

State workers ready to untangle Memorial Day traffic snarls

2013-05-20 21:01:00

On Memorial Day weekends, Kim Yates and Albert Kullman measure success by speed. Yates steers her bright yellow tow truck toward trouble, with the goal of getting disabled vehicles out of the roadway or back in business before traffic has time to clog....

Federal agency says lowering legal limit could cut DUI deaths

2013-05-14 17:09:43

Even moderate drinking before driving could become illegal if a federal safety panel's recommendation Tuesday is enacted eventually by the states. The National Transportation Safety Board recommended that states cut their thresholds for drunken driving...

City plans bike-sharing program

2013-05-08 08:02:09

More than 250 bicycles would be available for short-term rentals at 25 stations throughout Baltimore by this time next year under a bike-sharing program similar to those in Washington and London, city officials said. The city's financial oversight...

Orioles give up 4-run lead but come back to win in 10th against the Angels

2013-05-04 19:06:00

The four-run lead that Orioles right-hander Freddy Garcia took into the seventh inning against the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday seemed safe enough, especially given the relative ease in which Garcia had held the Angels hitless through the game's first...

State hopes to ease some Baltimore-area traffic jams

2013-05-04 06:32:00

In the stop-and-go world of Baltimore-area traffic, there's a lot more braking than commuters and transportation officials would like. Take Russell Allen, a Federal Hill resident who gets in his silver Ford Edge every weekday morning before 7:30 and...

If you go: What to see and do in Dallas

2013-05-01 17:30:00

Since Buck Showalter hasn't had much of an opportunity to explore Dallas, we thought we'd provide him with some the region's most interesting detours around town. Who knows? Maybe he'll surprise his wife with an outing! Getting there Dallas is 1,366...

Newly acquired catcher Chris Snyder joins Orioles in Seattle

2013-04-29 19:33:00

Catcher Chris Snyder, whom the Orioles acquired Sunday from the Los Angeles Angels in a deal for minor league right-hander Rob Delaney, was at Safeco Field on Monday, but he has not been activated. The Orioles wanted to give Snyder a day to get...

Jim Johnson walks in go-ahead run as Orioles' extra-inning win streak ends at 17

2013-04-24 14:58:00

When the topic of winning streaks arose before Wednesday afternoon’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Orioles manager Buck Showalter insisted that his players don’t pay much attention to them. “I don’t think they had a thing up...

Maryland's pothole detectives are good at finding faults

2013-04-23 15:58:00

Most weekday mornings, late spring through late summer, Terry Weller and George Foster climb into a bright yellow truck and fire up lasers, high-definition cameras and a bank of digital recorders before hitting the road. Weller and Foster are two of the...

City to void more than 6,000 camera tickets

2013-04-23 16:05:00

Baltimore City said Tuesday that it will throw out more than 6,000 speed and red-light camera tickets because its former contractor has stopped showing up in court to defend them — the latest sign of the dysfunction dogging Baltimore's speed...

City suspends speed camera tickets amid new mistakes

2013-04-17 07:28:00

Baltimore officials announced Tuesday that they have suspended the city's troubled speed camera program amid fresh reports of erroneous tickets, this time involving a new multimillion-dollar camera network. The Baltimore Sun found that a recently...

Gasoline prices remain high at a station near North Avenue in Chicago despite a statement by AAA that motorists nationwide are paying the lowest springtime gas prices in three years.

2013-04-30 00:00:00

Mid-Atlantic calls that the "doomsday scenario," or the Chicken Little, "the-sky-is-falling" mind-set. Although pump prices have already spiked over $4 in some U.S. retail markets, most American consumers will not pay nearly that much for gasoline this spring and summer.

2012-02-15 00:00:00

Crossing guard Judy Slaysman, center, watches as students who attend Rodgers Forge Elementary School cross Dumbarton road in front of the school. They are participating in the International Walk To School event this morning. Ms. Slaysman has been a crossing guard here for the past six years.

2011-10-05 00:00:00