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Washington Dulles International Airport topped the local list of airports with over $31,000 in unclaimed money.
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Police say they arrested a Virginia man Friday who tried to bring a 9 mm handgun in his carry-on bag at BWI Marshall Airport.
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A TSA officers saw the 9 mm handgun in a X-ray machine at one of the airport’s security checkpoints, the TSA said Sunday in a statement.
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The number of guns caught at the Linthicum airport so far this year is now more than one-third of last year’s total, 22, in just two months.
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Concerned about the effects of a recently ended partial federal government shutdown, Maryland lawmakers are considering ways to cope should politicians force another closure. Unemployment benefits for nonessential employees, pay for contract workers and help with utility bills are on the table.
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The world's busiest airport is experiencing long wait times to get through security just nine days before it expects 150,000 out-of-town visitors for the Super
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The Maryland Transit Administration is offering free bus, light rail, metro and MARC service to unpaid federal government workers until the end of the partial government shutdown.
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Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport’s security Checkpoint A has reopened Tuesday, after closing due to “excessive call-outs” by TSA agents who have not been paid in weeks because of the federal government shutdown, an airport spokesman said.
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Workers at Baltimore/Washington International Airport plan to hold a rally Wednesday afternoon to urge an end to the government shutdown.
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Checkpoint operations are continuing in a routine manner Saturday at the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport amid reports of mass numbers of TSA agents calling out sick during the government shutdown.
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The TSA expects 40,000 passengers per day to pass through BWI Marshall Airport in the days leading up to Christmas. If you're one of them, here are some tips for making it through the crowds.
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The Transportation Security Administration stopped a man from bringing a collapsible rifle on a flight at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
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An officer with the Maryland Transportation Authority has been suspended after attempted to fly with a gun in April.
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A Westminster man managed to walk through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at BWI Marshall Airport with a knife in his waistband and no boarding pass on the night before the Fourth of July, authorities confirmed Thursday.
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A Pennsylvania man has been arrested at BWI Marshall Airport after a loaded handgun was found in his carry-on bag.
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Two people were arrested after separately bringing guns into the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport security checkpoint areas this weekend, officials said, bringing this year's total to three.
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A 47-year-old Georgia man was arrested Thursday trying to carry a loaded handgun past a security checkpoint at Baltimore Washington International/Thurgood Marshall Airport, transportation officials said.
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A Baltimore man was arrested at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport after he was caught trying to bring a loaded handgun past a security checkpoint. That brings the total number of guns caught at the airport to 25 for the year, which is a new record.
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Two guns were stopped at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport checkpoints in the past week, bringing this year’s total to 24 — matching last year’s number, the Transportation Security Administration said.
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A TSA officer caught the man with a loaded semi-automatic handgun in his carry-on bag at a security checkpoint.
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Between 30,000 and 40,000 passengers per day are expected to pass through security checkpoints at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in the lead-up to Thanksgiving, according to the TSA.
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Any electronic device larger than a cellphone must be removed from carry-on luggage and put through the X-Ray machine on its own.
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The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration will begin offering TSA PreCheck and Transportation Worker Identification Credential applications at six of its locations by the end of the year.
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The number of guns seized at BWI Thurgood Marhsall Airport is climbing sharply, authorities say, mirroring a years-long increase at airports throughout the region and across the country.
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A Virginia woman carrying a loaded handgun in her purse was arrested Thursday at a Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport security checkpoint.
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When police and local residents began squaring off near the Mondawmin Metro station in West Baltimore two years ago this week — precipitating one of the most consequential riots in modern American history — it was captured on video by a network of government surveillance cameras. What the footage shows, however, is still a secret.
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A Fallston man was arrested Monday and charged with carrying a loaded handgun at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, federal officials said.
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A Pennsylvania man was arrested with a loaded handgun at a BWI Marshall Airport security checkpoint early Tuesday morning, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
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A Virginia mother was arrested and charged after recently carrying a loaded handgun into Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport while transporting her children to their gate.
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The Transportation Security Administration has a bone to pick with a certain flier from Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
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An Owings Mills man traveling to Atlanta was arrested at the airport Thursday after authorities said he tried to carry a handgun past a security checkpoint.
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Transportation Security Administration officers stopped a woman from carrying a loaded gun through security at Baltimore Washington International-Thurgood Marshall Airport Monday.
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A Delaware woman was arrested with a loaded handgun at a security checkpoint at BWI Marshall Airport on Monday — the third gun Transportation Security Administration officers have found in carry-on baggage in the last five days at the airport, officials said.
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A Mount Airy man was arrested Tuesday after being caught trying to carry a shotgun past the security checkpoint at Baltimore Washington International-Thurgood Marshall Airport, according to a press release from the Transportation Security Administration.
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Cynthia Shirley Mellerson, 59, a former administrative aide to Towson University presidents, died of a heart attack Aug. 8 at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
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BWI Airport's longest security line is getting shorter just in time for the Fourth of July.
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Its election season and, as expected, some candidates are promising more tax cuts — again. And while some Americans are pleased to have more money in their pockets in the short-term, all of us will end up paying more in the long-term.
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Is privatization of the TSA the answer to long security lines in the nation's airports?
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Americans shouldn't have to put up with misery at airport security this summer — or the partisan gridlock that enables it.
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New driver's license won't fully meet federal requirements — and eventually may not be accepted at airports
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The following programs will be offered through Carroll County Public Library. Registration is required only where noted. For more information, call
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A Frederick woman was arrested after trying to carry a loaded handgun through a security checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Sunday, officials said.
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As the nation's gun laws continue to be the subject of heated debate, federal aviation officials are reminding travelers of a long-standing rule: Firearms and ammunition are never permitted in carry-on bags.
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A Frederick County man was arrested Wednesday after packing a prohibited item in his carry-on bag at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport: a .32-caliber handgun.
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TSA agent's lifesaving actions are praiseworthy but don't dilute the term, 'hero,' by applying it here
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A Maryland man has been charged with trying to bring a handgun through a security checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
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A man tried to bring a dozen fireworks, a hatchet, five knives, a 9-inch folding saw, three rope cutters and two smoke grenades through a security checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Tuesday, officials said.
