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Underwater on the mortgage, stationed away from home
Air Force Maj. Justice Sakyi's change-of-station orders to Germany came with a built-in dilemma: what to do about his family's home in Maryland. He and his wife, Olivia, bought the single-family house in Bowie in early 2006, near the height of the...
Tags: Crofton, The Pentagon, Rentals, Mortgages, Homes
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Cigarette use down, other tobacco up, CDC says
Cigarette consumption has gone down since 2008, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But other tobacco use has gone up. That includes use of pipe tobacco for roll-you-own cigarettes and cigarette-like cigars, the agency...
Tags: McAfee, Inc., U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tobacco Products, Quitting Smoking, Disease Prevention
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Federal workers fret over debt talks
As the president and the speaker of the House intensified their debate over raising the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling Monday night, the real world impact was reflected among Maryland federal workers like Jacqueline Hamilton. After 44 years of...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Eric Cantor, Wages and Pensions, White House, Barack Obama
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Feds investigating BWI flights to Cuba
It was undoubtedly exciting news: Baltimore would become one of the few spots in the U.S. offering flights to Cuba, a Communist nation largely off-limits to American travelers.
But one critical item had been overlooked: the paperwork.
The Florida travel...Tags: Transportation, Fines, Punishment, International Travel, Companies and Corporations
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BWI flights to Cuba to start in March
A Tampa-based company plans to begin offering flights next spring from BWI-Marshall Airport to Cuba, where travel has been restricted since 1961, shortly after Fidel Castro took power and nationalized U.S.-owned businesses.
But visitors shouldn't count...Tags: Government, Human Rights, International Travel, Companies and Corporations, Germany
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We probably shouldn't attack Iran, but we shouldn't tell them that
Should we bomb Iran for plotting to blow up a Washington, D.C., restaurant in order to assassinate the Saudi ambassador?
Probably not.
Should Iran be worried that we might?
Absolutely.
And yet, within hours of the Justice Department charging...Tags: Foreign Aid, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), White House, Barack Obama, Nobel Prize Awards
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50 years ago: School board buys Shucks Corner property for Harford Junior College
As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, May 17, 1962: The board of education announced that it was purchasing Prospect Hill Farm at Shuck's Corner as a new site for Harford Junior College. The purchase price for the 204-acre farm was $204,...Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Harford County, Port Deposit, Teaching and Learning
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Retirees face the risk of outliving their money
Until recently, retirement planning focused mostly on helping workers accumulate savings. Now, the Treasury Department is tackling another aspect: making sure retirees don't run out of money. The department last week proposed two regulations to make...Tags: Retirement, White House, Retirement, Employment Opportunities, Employees
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Perryville has $1.3 million surplus, audit says
A representative with the accounting firm Weyrich, Cronin and Sorra reported that the town of Perryville ran a surplus of $1.3 million for the financial year that ended June 30. Reporting on the town's audit for the spending year, the representative...Tags: Penn National Gaming, Government, Finance, Financial Markets, Budgets and Budgeting
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Feds target mortgage modification scams
The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has teamed up with the Treasury Department and — this is a mouthful — the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program — to shutter mortgage modification...Tags: U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mortgages, Companies and Corporations
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Attorney: Manning showed signs of distress in Iraq
Military prosecutors building a case against the 24-year-old Army soldier accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks sought to show Saturday that Pfc. Bradley Manning had access to the secret documents and the ability to...Tags: Minority Groups, Trials, Lawyers, Bradley Manning, Police Investigations
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Good-bye paper savings bonds
Technology has overtaken the U.S. savings bonds. After this year, you will no longer be able to buy a paper bond. All purchases will be made electronically. By going totally electronic, the government is expected to save $120 million over five years.
You...Tags: Bonds, World War II (1939-1945)
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