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The Severstal steel plant at Sparrows Point has been cited for multiple air pollution violations over the past year, and an investigation is under way of a furnace fire Sept.

MARION STATION-- Ronald Andrew Mesaris lost his keys while hunting in the woods in Somerset County so he went back in to look for them even though it was dark.

Law enforcement alone cannot halt the growing number of metal thefts, but Baltimore County officials hope crime-fighting legislation might limit the profit in stolen copper, aluminum and other metals.

It features a young African-American woman sitting at a telephone switchboard busily routing incoming and outgoing phone calls through a plug board.

Paul P. Blitz, a decorated World War II veteran who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, died from complications of pneumonia Oct.

He didn't, until prodded later, volunteer information about being a Marine , or about his wife , or about his son , or about policing the streets he grew up on, or even about his dedication to the Boy Scouts.

A A A James Kolodziejski, the man behind the smoke machines and tombstones, recently spent two weeks in the hospital and said setting up the annual display would be a oepretty much physically impossible for me to do this year.a A A This month would have been the 20th anniversary of the Haunted Graveyard, but Kolodziejski said the scary celebration ...

A A A The Baltimore County CouncilA voted unanimouslyA forA the purchase, agreeing with the union on a 10-year lease.

Fairfax police say a man who reported being stabbed during a robbery at a mall cut himself.

Baltimore County will buy industrial land in Sparrows Point from the state at a bargain price and lease the property to a local union for a training school.

AES and Mid-Atlantic Express are seeking to place a reportedly $400 million liquefied natural gas facility on Sparrows Point in conjunction with an 88-mile pipeline to Eagle, Pa.

The union that represents 2,500 employees at the Sparrows Point steel mill received a draft proposal from the plant's Russian owners last month detailing a restructuring that could affect as many as 580 jobs, or nearly a third of the workforce, according to the union president.

Crews were on the scene of an incident at the L Furnace at Bethlehem Steel Boulevard and Wharf Road on Tuesday afternoon, according to a press release from the Baltimore County Fire Department.

No injuries were reported Tuesday afternoon when debris and flames erupted from a furnace smokestack at Severstal Corp., setting fire to small structures and grass plots and littering parking lots with burning material.

Crews are on the scene of an incident at the L Furnace located atA Bethlehem Steel Boulevard and Wharf Road.

Sep. 22, 2009, 7:34 p.m. There was one big winner in Saturday night's Multi-Match drawing from the Maryland Lottery, ending the months-long jackpot-roll that grew to a record-breaking $4.8 million top prize.

The largest Multi-Match jackpot in the game's history has been claimed. Two Dundalk co-workers visited Maryland Lottery headquarters Monday to claim their $4.8 million prize.

The winning ticket to the largest Maryland Multi-Match lottery drawing, purchased on Friday, has yet to be claimed, lottery officials said.

Inclement weather on Saturday of last year's festival shrunk the three-day event down to two days.