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Shuttle buses will replace light rail trains at five stations north of Timonium from May 5 to about June 30 as workers upgrade crossings in Hunt Valley. Riders who use the Warren Road, Gilroy Road, McCormick Road, Pepper Road and Hunt Valley stations should either board buses or bypass the closures and park at the 850-car space Timonium Road station, the Maryland Transit Administration said Thursday. Crews will replace worn track and shore up rail foundations — the first major work on the section since it opened in 1997.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Visitors to the National Mall and to Arlington National Cemetery will have new transportation options in time for the National Cherry Blossom Festival. A new shuttle and tour service begins operating Monday at Arlington cemetery, the park service said. The new shuttle, which covers just the cemetery, costs $8.75 per person. For the National Mall, a new express bus service will begin operating March 12. It will run in a loop from Union Station to the World War II Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington cemetery, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and the Smithsonian Metro station.

Whether the Baltimore Grand Prix will ever prove itself a "game-changer" for the city, as Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake predicted, may be debatable, but there is one investment of recent years that may actually live up to that title. Instead of drawing visitors to Baltimore for one weekend out of the year, it's doing so year-round and boosting downtown businesses (and job opportunities) in the process. It's the Charm City Circulator, the free downtown shuttle bus service that this week launched its third route, a green line running between Downtown, Fells Point and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

If it's true that what goes around comes around, Crystal Jenkins Jones says she now knows that better than most. Last year, she says, her cousin was one of two people who shot and killed a 72-year-old security guard picking up Chinese food at a carryout on Greenmount Avenue. And on Monday night, Jones' 52-year-old husband, Freddie, was slain in a robbery at the same place. "The death last year happened from a family member of mine," Jones, 43, said Wednesday, standing in a nearby parking lot. "It'll come back to you if somebody takes a life from someone, and it just so happened a life was taken from me. " Baltimore homicide detectives canvassed the Better Waverly, Harwood and Abell neighborhoods of North Baltimore on Wednesday morning in hopes of drumming up tips in the killing of Freddie Jones Jr., an Army veteran and shuttle-bus driver at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

As of 9:30 a.m. Thursday, traffic was slow on northbound I-97 prior to Route 100, due to an accident. Accidents were slowing traffic on southbound I-95 at the Fort McHenry Tunnel, Admiral Cochrane Drive at Harry S. Truman Parkway in Anne Arundel County, and the southbound Jones Falls Expressway at Guilford Avenue in Baltimore City. The Maryland Transit Administration says that, due to track repairs, shuttle bus service has been established from the Hunt Valley station to the Gilroy station of the light rail.

As of 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, traffic was slow on eastbound Eastern Avenue past the Baltimore Beltway, due to an accident. Accidents were slowing traffic on the inner loop of the Baltimore Beltway at Providence Road, Belair Road at Henry Avenue in Baltimore County, Southwestern Boulevard and Wilkens Avenue in Baltimore City, 21st Street at Greenmount Avenue in Baltimore City, Loch Raven Boulevard and 33rd Street in Baltimore City, Belair Road and...

In an age of austerity, can the United States still afford, in "Star Trek's" memorable phrase, "to boldly go where no man has gone before"? The answer: maybe. The space shuttle program - that long-running, always slightly disappointing successor to the thrilling Apollo moon missions - is no more. The Obama administration has made it plain that the future of human spaceflight, at least in the near term, will consist of federal partnerships with private enterprise. Entrepreneurs (that is, those whose bottom line is not to advance scientific discovery but to make a buck)

I have four ideas for how to control the out of control crowd tubing on the Gunpowder River ("Taming the river," Aug 3). I certainly agree that it has been a very enjoyable activity. It used to be a way to teach the young to respect and enjoy nature. It is, for sure, not a place for anyone who does not respect nature. One: At least limit the shuttle companies to one. Two: Prohibit anyone from taking coolers on the river or in the tubes. Three: Prohibit possession or drinking of alcoholic beverages on the river.

The scheduled touchdown of the space shuttle Atlantis Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida marks the end of a 30-year era in the U.S. manned spaceflight program. The space shuttle Columbia first flew in 1981, and since then the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has completed 135 missions aboard the delta-winged space planes, which have carried into orbit everything from classified military satellites to the Hubble Space Telescope and components for the International Space Station.