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By Luke Broadwater, The Baltimore Sun | April 12, 2013
Several crashes slowed the Baltimore area's morning commute Friday as motorists navigated heavy rain. A single-vehicle crash in Anne Arundel County closed the shoulder of the inner loop of Interstate 695 at Route 295 as of 7:20 a.m., according to the state Department of Transportation. Also, in Harford County, a two-vehicle collision closed the shoulder of southbound Interstate 95 near the exit for Route 152 as of 7:52 a.m., officials said. Luke.Broadwater@baltsun.com Twitter.com/lukebroadwater
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The Baltimore Sun | March 28, 2013
Accidents were bogging down the Thursday morning commute in the city and in Baltimore County, police said. In the city, northbound traffic on Martin Luther King Boulevard was being detoured onto West Fayette Street after an accident between Fayette and Saratoga streets, and police were calling the traffic impact "severe. " Drivers were also being asked to steer clear of North Charles Street near Chestnut Avenue in Baltimore County, where a pedestrian was reported struck by a car Thursday morning, police said.
NEWS
By Carrie Wells and Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun | March 24, 2013
Winter is not quite ready to leave Baltimore. Weather forecasters called for a wintry mix of rain and snow to start falling late Sunday and into Monday that was likely to complicate morning commutes. The forecast is for "a slushy inch" of accumulation at most in Baltimore on Monday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Kevin Witt. Parts of Carroll, Baltimore, Harford and Howard counties could see 1 to 3 inches. Much of the accumulation is expected to be on grassy areas.
NEWS
March 22, 2013
I smiled when I read Susan Reimer 's column about locking one's car doors to prevent thieves from stealing valuables from inside ("Hey Annapolis car owners: Lock it up!" March 7). It seemed so small-town 1950s America, so different from the reality of people who have to park their cars in Baltimore, where locking your car door is completely irrelevant. Here, thieves will smash your side windows and grab your personal items - even out of the glove box, where they know you've stashed your GPS - in less time than it takes to open an unlocked door.
NEWS
March 18, 2013
Having won approval in both chambers of Maryland's General Assembly, a landmark bill to abolish the state's death penalty awaits only Gov. Martin O'Malley's signature before becoming law. It is a tremendous political and moral victory for Mr. O'Malley, a long-time opponent of capital punishment who campaigned for a repeal during his first term only to come up short. That leaves only one major item of unfinished business on his agenda regarding the issue: Commuting the sentences of the five men currently on Maryland's death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
NEWS
By Joe Burris, The Baltimore Sun | March 14, 2013
Several incidents including two on the inner loop of Interstate 695, forced lane closures during Thursday morning's commute, according to the state Department of Transportation. A one-vehicle collision on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County at the Cove Road exit closed the inner loop right off-ramp and one of two inner loop shoulders at 8:23 a.m., DOT said. Also, all lanes of the inner loop of I-695 near Edmondson Avenue were closed at 7:35 a.m., after State Police said a pedestrian was found dead along the interstate.