In about six weeks, Bill Penna will be out of work. He didn’t botch a project or offend a supervisor. He simply happens to work in the wrong air traffic control tower.

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The U.S. magistrate judge’s chambers in Salisbury have survived the budgetary wrecking ball — at least, for now, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said Tuesday.

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Massive new cargo cranes heading to the Port of Baltimore will stop traffic on two bridges along the way. The Maryland Transportation Authority says Coast Guard and transportation officials were worried that motorists would stop to watch or cause accidents. ...

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WASHINGTON — The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help. At a news briefing, ...

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LINTHICUM — A BWI airport official say a canister of pepper spray left in a trash can near a checkpoint was to blame for the evacuation of two concourses. Jonathan Dean, a spokesman for Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, says ...

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FREDERICK — Frederick County public school students are expected to have a day off in May because the G-8 summit being held at Camp David in Thurmont. The Frederick News-Post reports that Sheriff Chuck Jenkins asked for the schools to ...

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Rockville’s district courthouse, which opened Monday after three years of construction at a cost of $65 million, was closed Wednesday due to seeping sewage nearby — apparently the result of the strain the new facility put on a blocked city ...

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As we enter the final year for Maryland’s implementation of its preparations for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), I applaud the progress made to date by all levels of government and by the private sector to prepare for the influx ...

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The Dept. of Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General investigated the failure of Bay National Bank in July and found nothing special in the bank’s downward spiral. “The primary causes of Bay’s failure were its aggressive growth strategy, excessive concentrations ...

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