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Lawmakers press for disaster aid for Garrett Co.
Members of Maryland's congressional delegation asked the Obama administration Thursday to reconsider its decision to deny federal disaster aid to Garrett County residents walloped by an October snowstorm. In a letter to Federal Emergency Management...Tags: Justice System, Martin O'Malley, Craig Fugate, Hurricane Sandy (2012), FEMA
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Weather hazards threaten to complicate holiday travel
State highway officials are urging motorists heading north and west for the holidays to be cautious, given winter weather conditions expected in some areas in the coming days. The weather could complicate holiday travel and celebration plans as people...
Tags: Highway Transportation, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Chesapeake Bay Bridge, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
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Ski resorts see promising winter season
The wicked warm spell that bedeviled the region's ski areas last year has been broken. Snow guns, ably assisted by Wednesday's surprise storm, are turning the brownscape of late fall into the dazzling white of winter.
"That storm gave us a big kick. We'...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Holidays, Snowboarding, Baltimore Hotels
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Violent weather system could spawn blizzard in Western Md., damaging winds in Baltimore
A strong low-pressure system causing blizzards across the Midwest is forecast to bring potential white-out conditions in Western Maryland and damaging winds across the Baltimore area Friday and Saturday.
Heavy snow combined with strong winds could create...Tags: Baltimore Weather, Allegany County, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Snow Storms, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
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O'Malley panel urges 'fracking' safeguards
An advisory commission studying whether shale gas extraction should proceed in Maryland called Monday for new legislation to deal with potential abuses in leasing and drilling for the fuel, but environmentalists said so many questions remain about the...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Montgomery County (Maryland), Environmental Pollution, Annapolis, Credit and Debt
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High wind watch issued across Central Maryland; BGE warns of outages
Central Maryland is under a high wind watch starting Saturday morning, with gusts expected to reach 60 mph during the day. The forecast prompted utility Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. to warn of possible power outages. Rain is forecast to usher in the...
Tags: St. Mary's County, Allegany County, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Snow Storms, Weather Reports
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Five family getaways to explore in and around Maryland
Alison Rudo grew up in Philadelphia and remembers many class trips to historic sites around the city. “It was like going back in time,” recalls the Elkridge mother of two. “Instead of just reading about Ben Franklin, you’re...
Tags: Liberty Bell, Animals, Washington, DC, Personal Service
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Sandy tests Md. emergency preparations
Baltimore emergency officials expected devastation on par with Hurricane Katrina. Expecting Hurricane Sandy to knock out communications, they coordinated with local radio to broadcast public safety information and planned a "carrier pigeon" network that...
Tags: Radio, National Hurricane Center, Emergency Incidents, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Media Industry
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Environmental activists rally for fracking conference
Environmental activists met Saturday at the University of Baltimore to organize a push for a legislative ban on the natural gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — casting the issue as a fight pitting the little...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Credit and Debt, Petroleum Industry, Martin O'Malley, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientist
First, the Army told Frank Olson's sons that the Fort Detrick scientist's death in a fall from a 13th-floor window of a New York hotel had been an accident. Then a presidential commission revealed that the CIA had given an unwitting Olson LSD as part of...
Tags: National Government, Dick Cheney, Central Intelligence Agency, White House, Gerald Ford
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Garrett Co. woman at ninth GOP convention
One in a series of profiles of Maryland delegates to the Republican National Convention Ask Brenda Butscher to compare this year's Republican convention to the first one she attended, in 1972, and her answer is unexpected. "One thing is I haven't met...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Republican Party, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Miami Beach
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Gas industry slams Bay Foundation fracking video
An industry group is accusing the Chesapeake Bay Foundation of misrepresenting the facts in a video investigation the environmental group released last fall purporting to show natural gas wells and processing facilities spewing invisible plumes of...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Politics, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Air Pollution, Organic Chemical Industry
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