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Revenue at Maryland's casinos reaches $69.2 million in May
Revenue at the state's casinos climbed to nearly $69.2 million in May, the first full month of table games at Maryland Live Casino as well as the initial days of the state's newest casino in Allegany County, the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control...
Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Gambling
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Appeal of 2010 Census nets city small population gain
The Baltimore SunBaltimore’s challenge challenge to the 2010 Census count netted the city a small population bump. Instead of being home to 620,961 people on April 1, 2010, as the U.S. Census Bureau reported in 2011, Baltimore actually had 621,074 residents...Tags: College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, United States Census Bureau, Kensington, Abell Foundation
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Rocky Gap, state's fourth casino, opens in Western Maryland
Gambling started Wednesday afternoon at the Rocky Gap Casino Resort right after the state approved the opening of its fourth casino, one that Western Maryland leaders hope will lure not only gamblers but also their families to a region eager for more...
Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Prince George's County, Casino and Gambling, Gambling, Tourism and Leisure
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Baltimore has high rate of staff-inmate sex
The Baltimore City Detention Center had the nation's second-highest rate of sexual contact between jail staff and inmates, according to a U.S. Department of Justice study released less than a month after federal prosecutors accused corrections officers at...
Tags: Prisons, Montgomery County (Maryland), Sexual Misconduct, Justice System, New Year's Day
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Supporters mount campaign to preserve assault weapons ban
Gov. Martin O'Malley and gun-control advocates launched an offensive Thursday to protect his proposed ban on assault-type weapons from a House committee's efforts to scale it back. "Military-style assault weapons belong on the battlefield, NOT on the...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Firearms, Weaponry, Executive Branch, Regional Authority
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Unions do their business on taxpayers' dime
It's the old "fair share" argument, but this time it holds even less water than usual. The Maryland State Education Association, the union that bargains on behalf of K-12 teachers throughout Maryland, wants to force all teachers — members or not &#...Tags: Elections, Baltimore County, Martin O'Malley, Howard County, Teaching and Learning
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Assembly passes bill to open casino jobs to some ex-offenders
In a move to open thousands of middle-class jobs to former offenders, the General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to legislation that would allow Maryland casinos to hire some people currently banned because of criminal records. The Senate voted...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Harford Community College, Executive Branch, Criminals
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Md. gun bill survives early test vote on House floor
The Baltimore SunGov. Martin O'Malley's gun-control bill is expected to undergo a long and heated debate in the House late Tuesday afternoon as delegates begin considering Maryland's first major piece of gun control legislation in two decades. The state Senate in...Tags: Punishment, Martin O'Malley, Montgomery County (Maryland), Maryland State Police, Republican Party
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House panel kills 'black liquor' bill
Legislation that would have phased out millions in ratepayer-financed subsidies for mostly out-of-state paper mills died in a House committee Friday, just a day after the Senate passed a companion measure. The House version of the so-called "black...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Elections, Alternative Energy, Baltimore County, Paper and Product Packaging Industry
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Allegany Co. man shot by state trooper dies
An Allegany County man shot Thursday night by state troopers as he opened fire on members of his family has died of his wounds, police said Friday. Samuel E. George was pronounced dead at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, according to police. Internal and...Tags: Shootings, Maryland State Police, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, House Building
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'Black liquor' phase-out clears Senate
A phase-out of renewable energy subsidies for paper mills has cleared the Maryland Senate, though with a provision that guarantees the state's only paper plant in Allegany County would continue to receive payments underwritten by taxpayers....
Tags: Renewable Energy, Electricity Production and Distribution, Alternative Energy, Paper and Product Packaging Industry, Energy Saving
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Police investigating possible killing at state prison
State police are investigating the possible killing of an inmate Tuesday night at a prison in Hagerstown, the fifth such incident at a state prison in six months. State police said the victim was a 22-year-old inmate at the Maryland Correctional...
Tags: Prisons, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Murder
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