Curtis Bay News

Police yesterday identified a man who was crushed under a car at a Curtis Bay salvage yard Thursday as he attempted to steal a catalytic converter.

A man was killed yesterday when a car at a Curtis Bay auto salvage yard collapsed on him.

By now you've felt how small this campus is, especially when you're without vehicle or are being punished for having one .

The city of Baltimore moved yesterday to condemn and take possession of 89 lots in Fairfield, a spit of land in Curtis Bay near the Harbor Tunnel.

It was an "all-heck afternoon" just outside the mouth of the Magothy River in late July, and the waves that were crashing over the stern of Mitchell Raup's 45-foot recreational trawler had reached 8 feet.

Maurice Turner pleaded guilty in connection with a shooting that left two men injured in Park Heights.

Baltimore is a small town, and nothing reminds you of that more than a community meeting, where neighborhood business is aired.

Officials from the county and the management company that runs two county-owned golf courses still are haggling over immigration documents to prove the company does not employ illegal workers.

Coast Guard Yard Fire Department personnel hosted the Junior Firefighters of Baltimore County today as part of the childrens summer day camp program.

The Coast Guard said Friday it was searching the Patapsco River near Bodkin Creek for a missing boater.

City police arrested a 17-year-old yesterday in relation to a robbery and a shooting last month.

More than 4 million gallons of sewage spilled from a pumping station in Halethorpe into the Patapsco River starting Monday afternoon, prompting health warnings from Linthicum downstream.

A Capitol Heights-based scrap metal processor has purchased a Baltimore County scrapyard and is pushing to build an export terminal in Curtis Bay to meet a surge in demand from the global steel industry. Joseph Smith & Sons Inc. began operations this week at the former Recovermat Mid-Atlantic LLC demolition waste facility in Halethorpe, retaining its 20 workers. Smith Vice President Bob Bonnes said the company is converting the facility into a shredding plant for autos and steel scrap. Smith's larger project is to open the Curtis Bay export terminal by mid-2009. It would become the first terminal in years to ship scrap iron and steel from the port of Baltimore. 'Our major interest in this property is obviously to get our scrap metal loaded and out of this country,' said Bonnes, who brought an international focus when he joined Smith in February 2007. 'It gives us access to the world, not just the U.S.' Rapid development in China and India has resulted in an increase in the price of the recycled metals used to make steel. Scrap from the West Coast and Australia feeds the Asian industry, and the East Coast is responding to growing demand from Mediterranean markets. Turkey, an export market targeted by Smith, is the world's biggest buyer of scrap for its production of steel for the Middle East, Bonnes said. Smith envisions local steel mills, such as the one in Sparrows Point and others in Pennsylvania and Delaware, buying shredded scrap directly from its new Halethorpe processor. The 27-acre Curtis Bay terminal, at the end of Asiatic Avenue just east of the CSX coal and ore piers, could also serve local steelmakers and process shipments of salt, bulk liquid and other commodities, Bonnes said. Smith operates a small scrap export site in Wilmington, Del., but the Prince George's County company focuses on the domestic market. To build the Baltimore terminal, Smith and joint-venture partner Port Contractors Inc. of Wilmington need final approval and permits from the city, the Army Corps of Engineers and the MarylandDepartment of the Environment. 'We are developing it looking to minimize the amount of dredging to limit the impact on the bay and the costs,' Bonnes said. 'We have a clean bill of health to go forward.' The site, formerly the Amoco Baltimore Asphalt Terminal, has been subject to environmental audits and cleanup efforts through the MDE.

The Coast Guard suspended its search for a missing boater, who fell overboard near Loves Point, Md., at midnight Monday.

A Baltimore fire official says workers were evacuated from a Curtis Bay chemical plant after a contractor received an acid burn to the face from a leaking tank.

Every day, thousands more people throughout the county are using buses and trains to get to work, apparently prodded by higher gasoline prices to change their commuting habits.

It's still early in the season, but one thing seems assured; we can look to the lower bay complex from the lower Potomac and across the lower bay to and in the Pocomoke and Tangier Sounds to once again rule in ...

Ten years ago, St. Anthanasius Chapel in Curtis Bay appeared destined for the wrecking ball, after the Archdiocese of Baltimore closed it out of concerns that the 1891 building was structurally unsound.

Ten years ago, St. Anthanasius Chapel in Curtis Bay appeared destined for the wrecking ball, after the Archdiocese of Baltimore closed it out of concerns that the 1891 building was structurally unsound.

A serious crash in south county yesterday sent three people to the hospital, officials said.