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Fires that took the life of an 11-year-old boy on Millers Island and heavily damaged a large industrial building in Woodlawn this month were both ruled accidental, Baltimore County fire investigators said ...

A recent audit shows some Baltimore County employees used government-issued credit cards for small personal purchases.

A veteran Baltimore County career firefighter from the Texas fire station suffered serious injuries Monday evening in a fire at the McCormick spice mill in Hunt Valley.

A 2-month-old boy injured in a crash on Interstate 83 in Baltimore County has died at Sinai Hospital, according to Maryland State Police, the second person to die in the crash that shut down the northbound ...

A drunken driver was freed from prison Monday at the unusual request of the father of the woman he killed - ' an appeal the inmate's attorney said shows the "human capacity for forgiveness." Cecil County father ...

Baltimore County Police said Monday they have arrested a man in connection with a 1980 rape case.

A Monkton family is free to build the area's first backyard windmill, Baltimore County 's zoning commissioner has ruled in a precedent-setting opinion he said he hopes will "forge new ground" in alternative, ...

Baltimore County police have arrested a man in connection with a July 5 rape which happened in Reisterstown.Dante Ramsey has been charged with first-degree rape and a first-degree sex offense.The victim, an ...

The motorist who fatally struck a Towson University freshman in a hit-and-run while driving drunk in Towson in October pleaded guilty today to manslaughter and was sentenced to 18 months in the Baltimore County Detention Center.

Matthew David Miller, 26, of Loch Raven Heights, pleaded guilty in Baltimore County Circuit Court to one count of manslaughter by vehicle in the death of Kevin M. Ryan, 18, of Columbia, who was hit while walking on Hillen Road.

Prosecutor Allan Webster said that Miller was driving drunk along Hillen Road near Goucher Boulevard on Oct. 12 when his car jumped the curb and struck Ryan. The victim was thrown into Goucher Boulevard, where he was then struck by another vehicle, whose driver remained at the scene, Webster said.

Baltimore County fire officials say two teens were treated for minor injuries after a fire damaged a rowhouse in Gwynn Oak.

Baltimore County Police have arrested a female Bloods gang member who allegedly shot an 18-year-old woman in the head at a park near Towson.

A young woman fights for her life Wednesday night after she's shot in a Baltimore County park and somehow walks a mile to get help.

A Capitol Heights-based scrap metal processor has purchased a Baltimore County scrapyard and is pushing to build an export terminal in Curtis Bay to meet a surge in demand from the global steel industry. Joseph Smith & Sons Inc. began operations this week at the former Recovermat Mid-Atlantic LLC demolition waste facility in Halethorpe, retaining its 20 workers. Smith Vice President Bob Bonnes said the company is converting the facility into a shredding plant for autos and steel scrap. Smith's larger project is to open the Curtis Bay export terminal by mid-2009. It would become the first terminal in years to ship scrap iron and steel from the port of Baltimore. 'Our major interest in this property is obviously to get our scrap metal loaded and out of this country,' said Bonnes, who brought an international focus when he joined Smith in February 2007. 'It gives us access to the world, not just the U.S.' Rapid development in China and India has resulted in an increase in the price of the recycled metals used to make steel. Scrap from the West Coast and Australia feeds the Asian industry, and the East Coast is responding to growing demand from Mediterranean markets. Turkey, an export market targeted by Smith, is the world's biggest buyer of scrap for its production of steel for the Middle East, Bonnes said. Smith envisions local steel mills, such as the one in Sparrows Point and others in Pennsylvania and Delaware, buying shredded scrap directly from its new Halethorpe processor. The 27-acre Curtis Bay terminal, at the end of Asiatic Avenue just east of the CSX coal and ore piers, could also serve local steelmakers and process shipments of salt, bulk liquid and other commodities, Bonnes said. Smith operates a small scrap export site in Wilmington, Del., but the Prince George's County company focuses on the domestic market. To build the Baltimore terminal, Smith and joint-venture partner Port Contractors Inc. of Wilmington need final approval and permits from the city, the Army Corps of Engineers and the MarylandDepartment of the Environment. 'We are developing it looking to minimize the amount of dredging to limit the impact on the bay and the costs,' Bonnes said. 'We have a clean bill of health to go forward.' The site, formerly the Amoco Baltimore Asphalt Terminal, has been subject to environmental audits and cleanup efforts through the MDE.

Baltimore County Police are investigating a shooting that occurred just after 5am Tuesday in Robert E. Lee Park along Falls Road and Lake Avenue near the Baltimore City/Baltimore County line.

Howard County is up for grabs in this year's gubernatorial election, a Sun poll shows, and the results locally could be crucial statewide.

'We know we fought the JV team' in 2002, when then-Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend carried her party's banner, said state Republican Party Chairman John Kane.

This year, he said, Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, the expected Democratic candidate for governor, will 'run harder and stronger. Howard is a major battleground for us.'

Both parties have state staffers working in Howard, and both plan to turn out as many voters as possible.

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The Maryland Attorney General says a Randallstown couple has been sentenced to two years in prison for committing Medicaid fraud.

Police in Baltimore County are investigating a bizarre accident. The driver of an SUV plowed into the home of an elderly couple Wednesday.

Baltimore County Police are asking for the public's help in locating the driver who struck three teenage girls and then fled the scene.

The Towson teen accused of beating his mother to death with a baseball bat waived his right to a speedy trial at his first appearance in Baltimore County court Wednesday.