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Taxpayers face long waits, conflicting information when trying to recover from identity theft
Tom Morgan tried to file his federal tax return electronically this year, but he kept getting an error message that advised him to double-check his Social Security number.
Morgan thought the problem was a transposed digit or some minor glitch on the IRS'...Tags: Theft, Crime Victims, Social Security, Vehicles, Equifax Incorporated
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Accused Maryland cannibal, victim both had legal troubles
As an electrical engineering student at Morgan State University, Alexander Kinyua was described by a professor as "docile" and dedicated, always looking to improve himself. On the Internet, Kinyua — now accused of killing a family friend and...
Tags: Radio, Trials, International Law, MC Hammer, Computer Networking and Internet
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Md. retirement system to vote against electing Wal-Mart directors
Maryland's state retirement system said Thursday that it would once again vote against the election of Wal-Mart Stores' board because it isn't confident in the independence of the directors. The Maryland State Retirement and Pension System, which owns 1....Tags: Companies and Corporations, Walmart, Pension and Welfare, Elections
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Harford executive answers critics on bonus
Harford County Executive David R. Craig issued the following statement Wednesday in response to criticism regarding his decision to withdraw legislation that would have provided a second $625 one-time pay bonus to teachers and other county employees:...Tags: Maryland General Assembly, Executive Branch, Pension and Welfare, Labor Legislation, Harford County
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Teachers take over Harford council meeting, plead for help
Harford County teachers took their protest over lack of raises and other contract issues to the county council meeting Tuesday night, packing the chamber in Bel Air as the council got ready to vote on the 2013 county budget. Before the meeting, dozens of...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Public Employees, Harford County, Budgets and Budgeting, Teaching and Learning
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Harford executive withdraws employee bonus bills; county council goes along
Citing the new financial burden caused by last week's Maryland General Assembly action on teacher pension obligations, Harford County Executive David Craig withdrew legislation that would have paid a one-time, $625 bonus to all county government and...Tags: Tropical Storms, Job Layoffs, Labor Legislation, Natural Disasters, Unions
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City police officer settles lawsuit over shootings
A Baltimore police sergeant who claimed he was never treated for post-traumatic stress disorder after he fatally shot a man in 2005 has settled a lawsuit against the city, in a deal that allows him to retire with his pension, according to court...
Tags: Lawyers, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Trials, Shootings, Employment Opportunities
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Harford council laments passing of bonus plan but still lets it die
The plan to pay a $625 bonus this spring to nearly 7,400 Harford County government, sheriff's office and school system employees died an unceremonious death in the Harford County Council chambers Tuesday evening. Though they lamented the latest turn...Tags: Lawyers, Tropical Storms, Havre de Grace, Corporate Officers, Labor Legislation
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Pensions, bonuses and county budgets
This is the season when local governments finalize their budgets for the next fiscal year, and the grousing about their penurious circumstances is in full swing. Some are even complaining that the state's revised budget and tax plan — signed into...
Tags: Executive Branch, Pension and Welfare, Labor Legislation, Anne Arundel County, Local Government
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Historians fret fate of War of 1812 sites
On a grassy hill a mile west of the Patuxent River, historian Ralph Eshelman can see the same bucolic view of fields and placid water anxious British soldiers likely saw when they landed in the summer of 1814 — the first stop in their campaign to...Tags: Queen Anne's County, U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, Queen Anne (Talbot, Maryland), Queen Anne (Prince George's, Maryland), U.S. Senate
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Columbia man allegedly tied to Howard County gang indicted
The crimes appear ordinary on Howard County's November police log — two break-ins on U.S. 1, another at a Columbia home where a television and video games were taken, and a man held up at gunpoint in the village of Kings Contrivance. But the...Tags: Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Theft, Harris Teeter, Inc., Howard County
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Law puts social studies back in the limelight
Social studies, a subject that had been demoted in Maryland schools in recent years, will regain some of its past educational stature under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Martin O'Malley.
Under the legislation — one of hundreds of bills O'Malley...Tags: Lawyers, Livestock Farming, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Identification Technology
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