ANNAPOLIS — Bill Blanchett crunched some numbers and cringed. Under legislation pending before the County Council, which would charge property owners to help pay for stormwater pollution cleanup, he’ll get an annual bill in excess of $20,000 for one of ...

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Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. said Monday it has made an initial request through mutual assistance networks for up to 500 out-of-state utility workers, as it prepares for what could be a significant winter storm later this week. Weather forecasters ...

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Baltimore Gas and Electric says it will light its downtown headquarters with purple lights to celebrate the Baltimore Ravens’ appearance in the NFL playoffs. The company will turn its building purple Friday night. The company says purple lights have been ...

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Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. is forecasting customers’ heating costs will be more this winter than last, due to an colder weather. Customers will likely use more natural gas this winter than they did last year, as the coming winter ...

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A dozen employees of Baltimore’s Department of Transportation are being accused of stealing nearly $60,000 in scrap metal and may be fired. In a report released Friday, Inspector General David N. McClintock wrote that the employees took heavy-gauge cable from ...

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WASHINGTON — Thousands of Maryland residents remain without power after Superstorm Sandy, while electricity has been restored to people in Delaware, the District of Columbia and Virginia. On Friday morning, there were nearly 19,000 power outages across Maryland. Snowy Garrett ...

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WASHINGTON — Electricity service has been restored for nearly everyone who lost power in Delaware, the District of Columbia and northern Virginia. But thousands of outages still remain in Maryland. By Thursday morning, Baltimore Gas and Electric was still reporting ...

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More than two-thirds of those who lost power in Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia during superstorm Sandy have had their power restored.

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When the lights went out at home on Monday evening, I fully expected to be without power well through Tuesday, possibly longer.

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WASHINGTON — Crews are still working to restore power to hundreds of thousands in Maryland, Delaware, the District of Columbia and northern Virginia after winds from superstorm Sandy downed trees and power lines. By 4 p.m. Tuesday, more than 122,000 ...

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