U.S. appeals court upholds firefighter's firing, saying his right to criticize gun control and his bosses was trumped by the need for order in the department.

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A western Maryland woman whose beloved dogs died in a house fire has raised enough money to buy pet oxygen masks for 21 Washington County fire companies.

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The city's spending panel approved $105,000 in settlements Wednesday morning, as well as entered a consent decree over violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act by the Baltimore City Fire Department.

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HAGERSTOWN — Two women are pleading guilty to being involved in an arson ring blamed for 40 fires in western Maryland. The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown reports that prosecutors want 20-year-old Olivia Hannah of Frederick and 20-year-old Sarah Mathews of Adamstown ...

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SUDLERSVILLE — An electronic failure may be to blame for a practice bomb that was dropped on a Queen Anne’s County bar parking lot, a Maryland National Guard official said Friday. An A-10 Warthog jet from the 104th Fighter Squadron ...

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Baltimore County’s latest Americans with Disabilities Act settlement with two firefighters and a police lieutenant will cost upward of $1 million, not the $107,000 the county cited in announcing it last month, according to settlement documents filed days later in the federal case.

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The Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services announced that it was awarded $544,060 through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant program.

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GREENBELT — A former Prince George’s County fire department official who bribed public officials in exchange for acts that benefited a development in which he had a financial interest has been sentenced to a year and a half and prison. ...

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Let’s say you’re watching municipal employees at work on the street. A first set of them paints a fresh set of lines on the street. A little while later, a second crew comes along and tears up the street — ...

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SALISBURY — The skies over Salisbury will be lit up this July Fourth. Mike Dunn, the former city council president and the event organizer, says the city hasn’t had Independence Day fireworks in about eight years, and it’s time to ...

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