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Md. Senate president says high gas prices make gas tax a tough sell
Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller sounded doubtful Tuesday about the prospects for a gas tax increase, especially because of high gas prices and a proposed income-tax increase to balance the budget that lawmakers must consider. Miller, who...Tags: Executive Branch, Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Politics, U.S. Senate
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Thursday
WEATHER
Today's forecast calls for sunny skies, with a high temperature near 83 degrees. It is expected to be mostly cloudy tonight, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms, and a low temperature around 57 degrees.
TRAFFIC
Check our traffic...Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Martin O'Malley, Politics, Aberdeen
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Funeral held for Calvert County family stricken with flu
Lou Ruth Blake was the family's matriarch who sang in the church choir and organized gospel shows. Lowell Frederick Blake liked to make people laugh. Venessa Marie Blake was the ardent churchgoer with a contagious smile.
All three family members died...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Human Interest, Washington Hospital Center, Lungs and Airways, Flu
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Forecast: Rain, heavy at times, and thunderstorms; high 71
The National Weather Service was calling for Wednesday to be rainy, with a high near 71 and east winds of 11 to 13 miles per hour. Rain could be heavy at times. Thunderstorms are possible after 2 p.m. New rainfall amounts of between a quarter of an inch...Tags: Weather Reports, Chesapeake Bay, Weather
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40 foreign workers win back pay against Fla. firm
Forty physical and occupational therapists who came to the United States through a visa program to work in 15 states, including Maryland, were awarded a total of $134,000 in back pay in a U.S. Labor Department case, the department announced in a statement...Tags: Employees, Career and Workplace, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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School board considers minimum academic standards for athletes
The state school board is considering whether students who play sports in high school should maintain a minimum 2.0 grade point average to be eligible, a requirement already in place in 16 school systems in Maryland. A statewide committee of...Tags: Howard County, Education, Schools, Standards, Maryland General Assembly
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Maryland Senate votes to tax the rich
The state Senate voted Thursday to significantly raise taxes on Marylanders earning half a million dollars or more — prompting complaints that liberals were bent on launching class warfare in the state. The Senate's vote to adopt what is being...Tags: Government, Warren Buffett, David Brinkley, Karl Marx, Income Tax
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Woman defrauds NSA for family firm, then embezzles $4.5 million
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the final member of a family business that was used to cheat the National Security Agency out of nearly $1.5 million, prosecutors said. Christina Turley Knott, 51, of Edgewater, was sentenced to 15 months in...Tags: Prosecution, Prisons, Lawyers, Trials, Punishment
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Center Middle Student honored for fundraising efforts
Anne Arundel County eighth-grader Victoria Marinzel is not one for the spotlight. After Gov. Martin O'Malley surprised her at a school assembly Monday with a Compassionate Marylander Award and a Governor's Citation, he asked the Central Middle School...Tags: Human Interest, Government, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Politics, Education
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Miller doubts gas tax hike will pass, suggests special session
Senate Thomas V. Mike Miller, a longtime proponent of raising revenue for transportation projects, said it is unlikely that the General Assembly will pass Gov.Martin O'Malley's plan to increase gasoline taxes this spring and suggested trying again at a...Tags: Politics
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Nuclear regulators do not fine Calvert Cliffs for security violation
Federal regulators have declined to impose a civil penalty against Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Southern Maryland after determining that an unspecified security violation had taken place at the facility. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in...Tags: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Power
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Trayvon Martin: That could have been me
Trayvon Martin was me, Ricardo Alonzo Summers in 1988. I lived in a neighborhood in Calvert County called Scientist Cliffs. Scientist Cliffs was established in the 1930s as a private, tony beach community by a handful of employees from the Department of...Tags: Government, Politics, Trayvon Martin, Travel, Science and Technology
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