Hunt Valley

Your headline the morning after the second presidential debate was a nice try, but it was our president, not Mitt Romney, who lied during the debate ("Obama takes an aggressive stand: President accuses Romney of saying things that are 'not true,'" Oct. 17). President Obama claimed to have called the attack on Libya an act of terror the day after he learned about it. Really? Then why was Susan Rice all over the airwaves claiming it was a spontaneous demonstration sparked by a YouTube video?

A team of runners and walkers from Transformations Fitness for Women studios will participate in Sunday's Komen Maryland Race for the Cure, but their team will be much smaller than previous years. The fitness studio with three Baltimore area locations signed up 342 people to its team in 2011 and raised nearly $24,000. So far this year, 280 people have signed up, and they've raised about $16,000. Shelley Sharkey, who owns Transformations' Catonsville location, said the teams lost some runners this year because of a decision by the national Komen organization to stop funding social-services organization Planned Parenthood.

This week was pretty busy in the land of Baltimore technology. Here are some of the cool things that happened. * Baltimore Tweet maps : Dave Troy, 410 Labs cofounder , and Chris Whong, head of Charm City Networks , collaborated online to develop a map of Baltimore-based tweets . You can explore this map's geo-located tweets from Baltimore people, collected on Aug. 27. Chris even overlayed vacant housing on the map, so you can see...

As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, traffic was slow on I-695 outer loop near Route 295, due to an accident. Accidents were slowing traffic at Cold Spring Lane and York Road in Baltimore City, Route 222 and Route 275 in Port Deposit, Roxbury Mill Road at Route 97 in Howard County, Brass Mill Road at Compass Point Road in Belcamp and Hawkins Point Road and Chemical Road in Baltimore County. Traffic was slow on I-895 near the Steel Bridge, due to construction activity. The Maryland Transit Administration is advising light rail system patrons that shuttle bus service is in place from North Avenue to Hunt Valley, due to storm-related damage along that portion of the line and repair work underway.

Back in May, one of the biggest video game companies in Maryland -- Big Huge Games of Timonium -- imploded, as its parent company in Rhode Island, 38 Studios, collapsed from a lack of money. Somewhere around 90-100 or so were laid off abruptly at Big Huge's office, which helped design the "Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning" video game, which was released earlier this year. Big Huge was part of former baseball start Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, which left a trail of mess since its collaps and bankruptcy in Rhode Island . But there's a silver lining.

Gaming is hot right now — even in the lab-coat world of science education. The MdBio Foundation, a private charitable organization for promoting science learning and workforce development, is building an online video game for high school students. They plan to build a half-dozen games that can reach millions of students across the state and the country. The group sees science-based video games as a way to help improve education in the STEM fields, or science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. saw its second-quarter income jump 61 percent and raised its quarterly dividend as political advertising far exceeded company expectations, the Hunt Valley broadcaster said Wednesday. The company earned $30.1 million, or 37 cents per share, in the three months that ended June 30, up from $18.6 million, or 23 cents per share, in the same period the year before. The company's stock jumped 13 percent Wednesday, rising $1.31 a share to $11.51 each in Nasdaq trading.

Bank of America warned state regulators Friday that it expects to lay off 55 employees in Baltimore County. The company said the cuts at its McCormick Road location in Hunt Valley, where employees process customer transactions, would run from Nov. 30 through Jan. 31. Workers could be eligible for severance pay and assistance finding a new job, the bank said. "We continually evaluate our operations and look for ways to better deliver for our customer/clients," Nicole Nastacie, a Bank of America spokeswoman, said by email.