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Senate passes gambling expansion bill
The Maryland Senate passed Gov.Martin O'Malley's gambling expansion bill on a 28-14 vote Friday, sending the legislation to a more closely divided House of Delegates when the General Assembly's special session continues Monday. Approval came in the early...
Tags: Executive Branch, Republican Party, David Brinkley, Democratic Party, Joseph M Getty
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Franchot criticizes revised Rocky Gap deal as bait-and-switch
Comptroller Peter Franchot on Wednesday denounced a revised deal that allowed the company licensed to operate a casino at the Rocky Gap resort in Allegany County to reduce the scale of the project as a "complete bait and switch" on the part of the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Memorial Day, Elections, Gambling
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University of Maryland launches problem gambling center
As the state is poised to add several new casinos and possibly table games such as poker, the University of Maryland School of Medicine said Thursday that it would create a center aimed at training thousands of health professionals to help gambling...
Tags: Prince George's County, Problem Gambling, Substance Abuse, Mental Health, Psychiatry
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Western Md. Democrats may get 2014 preview
Western Maryland Democrats may get a preview of the 2014 gubernatorial race Saturday as the likely contenders for the party's nomination converge on the Rocky Gap resort in Allegany County. While much of the official agenda is focused on this November'...Tags: Executive Branch, Ken Ulman, Kevin C. Kelly, Democratic Party, Local Elections
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House moving slowly through gambling bill, increases tax breaks for casino operators
Members of the House of Delegates weren't called to the floor for a debate on the controversial gambling expansion bill until 4:30 Tuesday afternoon, although legislators had been asked to be back by 2 p.m. Welcome to what for many Harford County...Tags: Justice System, Annapolis, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Elections, Personal Weapon Control
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Derailment probe appears to focus on track condition
Track conditions on a CSX Transportation railroad line appear to be the focus of a federal investigation into the train derailment that killed two women in Ellicott City last month. A preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Howard County, Ellicott City, Transportation Industry
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EPA is making enemies upstream
At a recent supper party in the foothills West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, a fisherman had just returned from Kent Narrows with a bushel of Maryland Blue Crabs. The crabs, rest their souls, made wonderful emissaries. The light conversation that...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland)
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Barnstorming artist takes murals to every Md. county
Drive west on Mile Lane in Allegany County, then crest the ridge in the road, and all of a sudden, the big barn on Leaning Pine Farm bursts out of the surrounding countryside like a display of fireworks. Eight-sided stars wheel exuberantly against the...
Tags: Artists, Cecil County, Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Radio, University of Maryland, College Park
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Franchot opposes special session, OKs Rocky Gap deal
Comptroller Peter Franchot used the occasion Wednesday of his first vote on the Board of Public Works in favor of a casino deal to denounce Gov. Martin O'Malley's tentative plan to call a special session of the General Assembly to approve an expansion...Tags: Prince George's County, Executive Branch, Labor Legislation, Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Gambling
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O'Malley signs gambling expansion bill
Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Wednesday asking voters to approve expanded gambling in Maryland as supporters and opponents prepared for what could be a bruising referendum campaign this fall.
The governor's action capped a whirlwind special...Tags: Executive Branch, Republican Party, Referenda, Elections, National Government
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Cordish unimpressed by windfall projection
National Harbor's hired expert on the gambling industry is predicting that the Cordish Cos.' Maryland Live! casino at Arundel Mills would enjoy an $84 million annual windfall from a gambling expansion plan favored by the developers of the Prince George'...Tags: Prince George's County, Rushern Baker, Cordish Cos., Casino and Gambling Industry, Personal Service
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Maryland prison inmate charged with murdering cellmate
A Maryland state prison inmate has been charged with first-degree murder in the strangulation of his cellmate last December. The Allegany County State's Attorney's Office says a grand jury indicted 25-year-old Brian Cotter Wednesday in the killing of 57-...Tags: Dundalk, Prosecution, Anne Arundel County, Punishment, Murder
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