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Top Democrats seek votes to raise gas taxes
With three weeks left in the General Assembly session, Gov. Martin O'Malley and legislative leaders have begun the painstaking process of rounding up the votes to raise taxes on gasoline — a move so unpopular it hasn't been done here since 1992....
Tags: Parties and Movements, Baltimore Red Line, Government, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore County
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Maryland court considers liability of bars in drunken-driving crashes
Michael D. Eaton ran up a tab for 17 beers plus other drinks before he left a Gaithersburg tavern, according to court records. Forty-five minutes later, behind the wheel of his Range Rover, he slammed into the back of a Jeep Cherokee at a speed...
Tags: Woodlawn (Baltimore, Maryland), Trials, Sales, Bars and Clubs, Transportation Accidents
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Maryland readying for 'last gasp' winter storm that could cause widespread power outages
A late-season storm was forecast to bring the first significant snowfall in Baltimore in two years Wednesday, prompting worries about travel difficulties and power outages from the wet, heavy flakes and strong wind. The National Weather Service forecasts...Tags: Snow Storms, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Air Transportation Delays, Baltimore County, Towson
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Over the decades, a river runs through the court system
It may be known as the Nation's River, but here where the Potomac carves its way between Maryland and Virginia, ownership is up for grabs. Again. A court battle that pits a group of property owners against two small paddling and tubing companies seeks...
Tags: George Washington, Loudoun County, U.S. Congress, Donald Trump, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Miller says state must act now to fund transportation
Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller testified Wednesday that Maryland's shortage of funds for transportation projects is a crisis that needs to be addressed now. Appearing before the Senate Budget & Taxation Committee, Miller said his proposed...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Calvert County, Baltimore Red Line, Rushern Baker, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Baltimore VA office worst in nation for processing disability claims
The Baltimore office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is the slowest in the country in processing disability claims for servicemen and servicewomen — averaging about a year — and makes more mistakes than any other office. The...
Tags: Veterans Affairs, Social Security, Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), U.S. Congress, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Miller to push regional transportation funding
Attempting to break a years-long stalemate over transportation revenue, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller intends to introduce legislation that would allow local governments and regional authorities to raise money for roads and mass transit....Tags: E.J. Pipkin, Road Transportation, Baltimore Red Line, Government, Regional Authority
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Back Story: 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam
On a sunny, humid day 150 Septembers ago, the fate of a nation seemingly converged at a diminutive rural Western Maryland village called Sharpsburg.
There, 87,000 federal troops under the command of Union Gen. George Brinton McClellan met the...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Manassas (Manassas, Virginia), Wars and Interventions, Frederick County (Maryland)
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Dr. Benjamin H. Cassutto, veterinarian
Dr. Benjamin H. Cassutto, a veterinarian and Army veteran, died Thursday of cancer at Nanticoke Hospital in Seaford, Del. The Millsboro, Del., resident was 52.
The son of a minister and a Carroll County educator, Benjamin Henricus Cassutto was born in...Tags: Glen Burnie, Cancer, Old Dominion University, Carroll County (Maryland), University of Cincinnati
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ReinCARnation: Union Bridge company resurrects vintage vehicles from the scrap heap
John Tokar, owner of Vintage Restorations Limited, in Union Bridge, started tinkering with British cars in 1969 when he was a teen in Bayonne, N.J., and his uncle sold him a 1959 Hillman Minx for $50. "It needed a clutch, so I got involved in working...
Tags: Vehicles, Hobbies, Renovation, Washington, DC, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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John E. Sparks
John E. Sparks, an artist, educator and a nationally known printmaker who developed and chaired the department of printmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art for nearly 40 years, died Aug. 2 of prostate cancer and pneumonia at Meritus Health...
Tags: Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Music, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Rep. Roscoe Bartlett's career in Congress comes to a close
Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett began his unsuccessful campaign for another term with an unusual meeting: a one-on-one chat over dinner with his Democratic rival. Bartlett and his challenger, John Delaney, met alone for two hours in a Frederick restaurant...
Tags: Parties and Movements, David R Brinkley, Roscoe G Bartlett, Baltimore County, Bill Clinton
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