http://thedailyrecord.com Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news Fri, 24 May 2013 21:04:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/11/13/new-beltway-lanes-seek-to-break-gridlock-in-d-c/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/11/13/new-beltway-lanes-seek-to-break-gridlock-in-d-c/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:24:58 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=227871 McLEAN, Va. — In a city filled with iconic landmarks, perhaps nothing better symbolizes how metropolitan Washington operates than the Capital Beltway: the physical embodiment of the gridlock that also grips Washington politics. For decades, it has been the eight-lane asphalt moat that has divided the self-obsessed, hyperpartisan “inside the Beltway” mentality from the salt-of-the-earth [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/11/13/new-beltway-lanes-seek-to-break-gridlock-in-d-c/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/07/03/thousands-still-in-the-dark-after-storms-in-mid-atlantic/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/07/03/thousands-still-in-the-dark-after-storms-in-mid-atlantic/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:12:19 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=218505 WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of people remain in the dark more than three days after summer storms clobbered the mid-Atlantic region. At 5:15 a.m. Tuesday, Pepco was reporting about 116,570 power outages on its website. Montgomery County had the most outages, with about 70,625. In northern Virginia, Dominion Power said there were about 78,830 [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/07/03/thousands-still-in-the-dark-after-storms-in-mid-atlantic/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/07/02/hundreds-of-thousands-lack-power-in-mid-atlantic-2/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/07/02/hundreds-of-thousands-lack-power-in-mid-atlantic-2/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:25:35 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/?p=218420 WASHINGTON — Millions of people in a swath of states along the East Coast and farther west went into a third sweltering day without power Monday after a round of summer storms that killed more than a dozen people. The outages left many to contend with stifling homes and spoiled food over the weekend as [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/07/02/hundreds-of-thousands-lack-power-in-mid-atlantic-2/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/04/17/metro-pulls-94-buses-from-service/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/04/17/metro-pulls-94-buses-from-service/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:23:02 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/04/17/metro-pulls-94-buses-from-service/ WASHINGTON — Metro has removed a total of 94 buses from service after one caught fire in Maryland, the second such fire in less than a week. Metro says there were no passengers aboard the Orion VI bus traveling on Route 50 when it caught fire Tuesday, and no one was injured. Last Thursday, another [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/04/17/metro-pulls-94-buses-from-service/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/12/08/virginia-governor-wants-increased-transit-funding/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/12/08/virginia-governor-wants-increased-transit-funding/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:03:44 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/12/08/virginia-governor-wants-increased-transit-funding/ NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell unveiled a list of transportation proposals on Thursday that call for increased state funding to reduce gridlock, which he says would help boost economic development and create jobs. Virginia has some of the nation’s most congested roadways, particularly in populous Northern Virginia and in Hampton Roads, home to [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/12/08/virginia-governor-wants-increased-transit-funding/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/11/28/eagle-bank-drops-bid-for-alliance/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/11/28/eagle-bank-drops-bid-for-alliance/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:23:11 +0000 Ben Mook http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/11/28/eagle-bank-drops-bid-for-alliance/ &via=&related=DolcePixel"> Citing “irreconcilable differences,” Eagle Bancorp of Bethesda, the parent company of Eagle Bank, said Monday that it is ending its $31.2 million acquisition of Alliance Bankshares Corp. of Chantilly, Va., The deal, announced in July, would have had Eagle Bank as the surviving company, and given the Montgomery County-based bank Alliance Bank’s six branches in [...]

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]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/11/28/eagle-bank-drops-bid-for-alliance/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/10/20/state-readies-9-5m-offer-to-keep-bechtel-workers-in-frederick/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/10/20/state-readies-9-5m-offer-to-keep-bechtel-workers-in-frederick/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:51:47 +0000 Nicholas Sohr http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/10/20/state-readies-9-5m-offer-to-keep-bechtel-workers-in-frederick/ ANNAPOLIS – Maryland is poised to offer Bechtel Corp. $9.5 million to keep the majority of its Frederick County workforce in place until 2018. The engineering and construction management firm, one of the largest employers in the county, has been considering a move to Northern Virginia. “It’s sad that the state has to consider something [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/10/20/state-readies-9-5m-offer-to-keep-bechtel-workers-in-frederick/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/08/29/500000-customers-in-mid-atlantic-lack-power/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/08/29/500000-customers-in-mid-atlantic-lack-power/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:23:12 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/08/29/500000-customers-in-mid-atlantic-lack-power/ Utility companies say about 530,000 homes and businesses in the mid-Atlantic region are without electricity due to Hurricane Irene’s high winds. The outages early Monday were spread across northern Virginia, Delaware, the Delmarva Peninsula and central and southern Maryland. The companies say it could take several days to fully restore electricity. Baltimore Gas and Electric [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/08/29/500000-customers-in-mid-atlantic-lack-power/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/08/19/sept-11-bikers-on-i-70-in-western-maryland/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/08/19/sept-11-bikers-on-i-70-in-western-maryland/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:19:27 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/08/19/sept-11-bikers-on-i-70-in-western-maryland/ HAGERSTOWN — The Maryland State Highway Administration says nearly 2,500 motorcyclists are making their way across western Maryland toward northern Virginia. The agency says the America’s 9/11 Ride entered eastbound Interstate 70 near Hancock about 10:15 a.m. Friday after taking Interstate 68 out of Cumberland. The rest of Friday’s route takes the riders through Hagerstown [...]

]]> http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/08/19/sept-11-bikers-on-i-70-in-western-maryland/feed/ 0 http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/08/15/3000-without-power-in-prince-georges-county/ http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/08/15/3000-without-power-in-prince-georges-county/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:11:51 +0000 Associated Press http://thedailyrecord.com/2011/08/15/3000-without-power-in-prince-georges-county/ WASHINGTON — Approximately 3,000 people are without power in Prince George’s County. Pepco listed 2787 customers without power Monday afternoon in the county. At the same time, outages in Montgomery County and had dropped to below 500 after overnight storms. Dominion Power listed about 100 customers out in the Northern Virginia area, down from about [...]

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