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Dry Eastern Shore saw most rainfall Wednesday
The lower Eastern Shore, the driest part of Maryland this year, saw the most significant rainfall from the system that moved through Wednesday. Amateur weather watchers reported rainfall levels up to 1.23 inches in Wicomico County and 1.03 inches in...
Tags: Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Bel Air (Allegany, Maryland), Harford County, Wicomico County, Worcester County
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Baltimore tries new jury software to increase attendance
Last year, Baltimore court officials sent a quarter-million summonses to potential jurors, culled from driver's license and voting records, knowing that only a fraction — about 27 percent — of those called would show up. The city has tried...Tags: Prisons, Trials, Punishment, It's Complicated (movie), Judges
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Md. approves manure-for-power plant at prison
In a move that increases Maryland's commitment to renewable energy, the state Board of Public Works approved a deal Wednesday under which a Virginia company will be given a 30-year lease on land at an Eastern Shore prison to build a plant that will...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Renewable Energy, Prisons, Alternative Energy, Companies and Corporations
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On New Year's Eve, some Maryland towns will drop anything but a glittering ball
New York City has its descending ball. Miami Beach has its giant orange. And Princess Anne has its stuffed muskrat.
At midnight Saturday, the town of 2,400 people in Somerset County will become the latest in a line of Maryland communities — and...Tags: New York City, Times Square, Miami Beach, Bangor, The Happiest News!
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Body of victim in Chesapeake Bay crash recovered near Smith Island
Search crews on Monday recovered the body of a woman, believed to be the victim of a small plane crash over the weekend, from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, police said. Mary L. Lagerquist, 78, of Sequim, Wash., had been a passenger Sunday in a...Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Industry, Tangier (Accomack, Virginia)
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Baltimore's vacancy rate stabilizing
Housing vacancies increased at a faster rate along much of Maryland's Eastern Shore over the last decade than in the nation as a whole, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Baltimore's supply of vacant homes, though,...Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Pocomoke City, Foreclosures, University of Baltimore, Auction Service
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Acre by acre, scientists work to rid Md. of nutria
— Judas 760 knew just where to swim last fall after federal trappers set him free: back to his home in the marshes of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, where other nutria lived.
But true to his name, Judas betrayed members of his colony by...Tags: Science, Natural Resources, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Fishing, Wildlife
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For some communities, post office could disappear
Edward Tarter, stopping in at the Harford Road post office in Baltimore, was aghast to hear Wednesday that it might shut down.
He understands that the U.S. Postal Service — which is eyeing one in 10 of its locations nationwide for possible...Tags: Mail Order Industry, Business, Towson, Harford Road, Office and Retail Spaces
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Wind energy plans pose challenge to Navy testing
In the 400-foot-plus turbines that a wind energy company wants to build on his tree farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Hall Coons sees a chance at a steady stream of income — and an opportunity to untether his economic fortunes from the ups and downs...Tags: Natural Resources, Forests, Renewable Energy, Alternative Energy, Wind Power
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Special prosecutor emerging as option on conflict cases
In the case involving an altercation last week between Baltimore Clerk of Circuit Court Frank M. Conaway Sr. and a blogger, State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein has said his office won't make the decision on whether to file criminal charges or handle any...Tags: Lawyers, Howard County, Prosecution, Trials, Crime Victims
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Maryland's top court hears death-row murderer's latest challenge
In 2007, Anthony Grandison, a onetime reputed Baltimore drug lord and convicted murderer who has spent most of the past 27 years on death row, fired the lawyers the public defender's office hired to represent him in his latest efforts to win a new trial...Tags: Murder, Lawyers, Prosecution, Trials, Pikesville
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9/11 motorcycle convoy expected on I-95 in Harford, Cecil Saturday morning
A motorcycle convoy is expected to travel through Harford and Cecil counties on northbound I-95 Saturday morning as part of a 9/11 commemoration and victim's memorial ride that began in western Pennsylvania Friday. The bikers, who are part of America's...Tags: New York City, Transportation, Travel Alerts, Road Transportation, Somerset County (Pennsylvania)
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