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$50 million allotted for Chesapeake by Senate
Capital News ServiceThe Chesapeake Bay is slated to get $50 million in funding, thanks to an appropriations bill that passed the Senate last week and awaits President Barack Obama's signature. In Maryland, the funds will include $1 million for the Chesapeake Bay Gateways...Tags: Natural Resources, Museum Dioramas, Nature, Zoology, Natural Science
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Talbot day care provider arrested in infant's death
A Talbot County day care provider was arrested Wednesday night in connection with the September death of an infant in her care, Maryland State Police say. Gail Dobson, 52, of the 3800 block of Harrison Court in Trappe, is charged with manslaughter, first-...Tags: Murder, Hospitals and Clinics
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State could get $70 million from U.S. for water projects
Maryland would receive more than $70 million for water projects under a 2010 spending measure that President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law as early as next week. Included is $53 million related to the Port of Baltimore for Army Corps of...Tags: Delaware River, Barack Obama, Chesapeake Bay
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Drought, rain, now mosquitoes
Maryland WeatherOkay, so we knew there had to be a downside to all this rain that wiped out the winter drought. It's mosquitoes.With plenty of puddles and soggy wetlands to breed in, and warming weather to kick-start their development, the little......Tags: Water Restrictions, Agriculture
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Dorchester County gets funds for water projects
Dorchester County will receive a $3 million injection of federal stimulus funding to help build water and sewer lines and a stormwater management facility at a technology park in Cambridge, federal officials said Friday. The federal Economic Development...Tags: Economic Policy, Chesapeake Bay, Cambridge
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Seven finalists named for state Teacher of the Year
State schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick announced the seven finalists for the 2010 Maryland Teacher of the Year Award on Thursday. The finalists, who were selected by a panel of judges from education organizations, will be interviewed Sept. 12, and...Tags: Worcester County, Somerset County (Maryland), Havre de Grace, Snow Hill, Garrett County
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Army Corps of Engineers OKs dredge material for 2 islands
The Army Corps of Engineers has approved using dredge material cleared from the Chesapeake Bay shipping channels on two islands in the bay, said U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee who pushed for the...Tags: Defense, Benjamin L. Cardin, Chesapeake Bay, Armed Forces
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U.S. funds to help develop Tubman site
A nearly $1.2 million National Park Service grant will help develop outdoor recreation facilities in Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park on the Eastern Shore. Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski and Rep. Frank Kratovil announced...Tags: Water Restrictions, Benjamin L. Cardin, Slavery, Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure
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Debate simmers over student expulsions
Sixteen students who were involved in serious incidents of misbehavior have been told they can never return to Baltimore public schools, even as city and state school board members debate the legality of denying students an education. The city students,...Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Teaching and Learning, Punishment, Arson, Legal Services
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Author James McBride brings slave history to the Baltimore Book Festival
James McBride had no idea Maryland's Eastern Shore would be the setting for his next novel when he first headed there about seven years ago. In fact, he says, he was on his way to Washington to research a book on the death of Abraham Lincoln when he...Tags: Metal and Mineral, World War II (1939-1945), Abraham Lincoln, Wetlands, The Brady Bunch (tv program)
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Rainy months take big bite out of mosquito-control efforts
Maryland's mosquito population has reached what some are calling a two-decade high, while funding to fight the disease-carrying pest is dwindling, according to state officials who say they fear they will run out of money before mosquito season ends.
"We'...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, West Nile Virus, Inorganic Chemicals, Viral Diseases and Infections, Population
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Dry out today; more rain coming
Maryland WeatherWe'll get one more day to dry out from the weekend storms, forecasters say. Then, a new cold front and associated low-pressure system will bring new rains. You can see the system in the blue and red areas of this......Tags: Weather Warnings, Floods
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