New Bill Aims To Ban Cell Phone Use On The Road
Driving and talking on your cell phone could soon get you pulled over more often in Maryland. Weijia Jiang has more, on efforts to toughen up the laws.
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Driving and talking on your cell phone could soon get you pulled over more often in Maryland. Weijia Jiang has more, on efforts to toughen up the laws.
When you paint with fire, you don't sign your work with a pen or a brush. Hell, no. You heat a branding iron until it glows, press it hard into wood and admire the sizzle and smoke. Walker Babington just got the branding iron, which bears his initials. Before that, he didn't feel comfortable signing his art work at all.
Not only has snow been flying this afternoon, but the winds are bringing in our coldest air of the season. A strong band of snow showers is moving across northeastern Maryland this evening (between 5 & 6 PM).
The debate over driving and using a handheld cell phone is alive again, after some state politicians say the current law is too weak.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says the city is finalizing an agreement with a new operator of the Baltimore Grand Prix. The mayor said in a statement Friday that the city would announce terms of the five-year deal on Wednesday.
A Maryland man is accused of using fireworks to destroy a gingerbread house on his front porch. Jerry Lee Heinefield, of Rock Hall, faces charges of reckless endangerment and illegal fireworks possession. The Star Democrat of Easton reports that deputy state fire marshals served a summons on Heinefield this week.
A Maryland man has been shot by a police officer after allegedly accelerating the truck toward the officer.
Another quick burst of winter weather is here.
One city program makes sure girls have a place to learn by putting them in skates and on the ice.
Overextended Maryland homeowners who desperately need a break are getting just that.
The Harford County Sheriff's Department is investigating a robbery and stabbing of an ABC Company taxi cab driver.
Maryland environmental officials are investigating following the discovery of elevated levels of cadmium from a municipal waste incinerator at Fort Detrick.
Teams from Seton Keough, Walkersville and Fallston compete.
A man has been given a three-year suspended sentence for a hit-and-run collision that injured two Johns Hopkins University students last year.
Moisture, well in advance of an arctic front that is now stretching from the St. Lawrence Valley to Lake Erie then southward across the Tennessee Valley, and to the north of an upper level disturbance that is starting to develop low pressure near the coast of North Carolina is resulting in steady precipitation across the area right now with some snow to the northwest and rain to the southeast.
