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The nation's leading travel organization Friday urged the Obama administration to block the sale of E15, a new ethanol-laced gasoline, that could damage as many as 228 million vehicles that are not designed to run on it. After years of controversy, the Environmental Protection Agency in June approved the sale of E15, a blend that contains up to 15 percent corn-based ethanol, for cars made after 2001. But AAA said its survey shows that 95 percent of consumers were unaware of E15 and the potential that it could damage engines and void warranties.

The NFL should be ashamed of itself for suspending Ravens safety Ed Reed for a game because of his hit on Pittsburgh receiver Emmanuel Sanders in the third quarter of Sunday night's game. It's one thing to fine a guy several thousand dollars, but another when you start taking away game checks. That's when you start messing with his livelihood and his family. The NFL has crossed the line. I could see if Reed was another James Harrison, the Steelers' outside linebacker who intentionally tries to hurt players.

Two men accused of nearly beheading three children in a horrific attack in Northwest Baltimore over eight years ago have rejected a plea deal from prosecutors, a defense attorney for one of them said. Brian Murphy, who is representing Adan Canela, 25, said his client and co-defendant Policarpio Espinoza Perez, 30, turned down a deal at a court hearing Thursday. Had they accepted, Canela and Perez would have received life sentences with all but 40 years suspended, Murphy said. "The state made it pretty clear: Take it today or it's withdrawn," Murphy said.

Colleges UMBC men win on PKs, 4-2; UNC next The UMBC men's soccer team advanced to the second round of the NCAA College Cup as the Retrievers played Old Dominion to a 0-0 double-overtime draw Thursday night in Norfolk, Va., but advanced, 4-2, in penalty kicks. Retrievers junior goalkeeper Phil Saunders (Perry Hall) played the starring role for the second consecutive game, stopping a pair of penalty kicks, and recorded his fourth straight shutout. UMBC (11-4-6) advances to the second round for the second time in three years and will play defending national champion North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., at 5 p.m. Sunday.

The video shows a bus driver fighting a girl - and this time it was shot in Baltimore. A Baltimore bus driver has been suspended by the Maryland Transit Administration pending a police investigation into an altercation between her and a young female student on the No. 40 bus line about 2 p.m. Monday, according to a MTA spokesman. A video of the fight was posted on YouTube and the website worldstarhiphop.com and later reported by TMZ, and had already been viewed thousands of times as of Tuesday night.

A 39-year-old Baltimore police officer has been suspended amid allegations of sexual misconduct, the city's police commissioner announced Monday.  The officer was identified as Northwestern District patrol officer Elliott Simon, and Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts called the complaint "very serious" and said it has prompted a criminal and internal investigation.  Batts said the officer is alleged to have been on-duty and that the complaint...

A Baltimore City police officer has been suspended after officials were notified by the FBI that he is under investigation, a police spokesman confirmed. The notification came from the same public corruption squad that developed the case against the officers in last year's towing kickback scandal that ensnared more than 30 officers, though there is no indication that the case are related.The officers were suspended or charged after it was discovered they were encouraging motorists to use a select group of towing companies after an investigation began in 2011.

Nearly two years after a towing kickback scandal rocked the Baltimore Police Department, 14 officers who were not criminally charged remain suspended with pay and unavailable to perform police functions, officials said. Police say they must wait for final word from prosecutors on whether the officers will face criminal charges before the agency can determine whether to punish them or clear them of wrongdoing. But the case is emblematic of a slow-moving disciplinary system that robs resources from a department that has the second-highest staffing per capita in the nation.

After pleading guilty to a charge of reckless driving Friday afternoon in Prince George's County District Court, Maryland forward James Padgett will not be suspended by coach Mark Turgeon, an athletic department spokesman said. Turgeon was not available to comment. Padgett was arrested in College Park in June and charged with driving while impaired, but that was dropped amid "a number of issues", according to Padgett's attorney David Putzi. Among them was the amount of mouth alcohol in Padgett's system as a result of the player's acid reflux condition.

Anne Arundel County police have taken the badge of a former district commander who is now a target in the state prosecutor's investigation, Chief Larry W. Tolliver said Thursday. Capt. Eric Hodge received a "target letter" this week from the same prosecutors who are pursuing the criminal misconduct case against County Executive John R. Leopold. Tolliver confirmed the letter and said he suspended Hodge's police powers that day after meeting with State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt and promising the department's cooperation.