WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced federal disaster aid is being made available to Maryland to support state and local recovery efforts in areas affected by Superstorm Sandy. The disaster declaration by President Barack Obama announced Tuesday ...

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WASHINGTON — Metro is suspending its regular track maintenance over the four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The transit agency says Metrorail will operate on a Sunday schedule on Thanksgiving Day. The rail system will open at 7 a.m. that day and ...

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OCEAN CITY — Ocean City’s iconic fishing pier, destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, will be rebuilt in time for the summer 2013 season. By the time the clouds parted after the Oct. 29-30 storm, a large section of the battered pier ...

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PORTLAND, Maine — A national think tank says new gay marriage laws in Maine, Maryland and Washington will generate at least $166 million in wedding spending in the next three years. The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law ...

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Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo was delighted to learn that the majority of Maryland voters shared his opinion on same sex marriage. “I’m so stoked. It’s like I woke up and it’s Christmas,” Ayanbadejo said Wednesday, one day after gay ...

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OAKLAND — Authorities say an elderly man in western Maryland died earlier this week while shoveling snow after Sandy spawned a blizzard that buried the mountainous region under two feet of snow. County emergency management chief Brad Frantz said Thursday ...

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CRISFIELD — On Maryland’s jagged coastline, hurricane-riled waves destroyed an iconic pier and floodwaters forced caskets from graves in a town famed for crabbing. In the mountainous western edges, 2 feet of snow snapped power lines, downed trees and left ...

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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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OCEAN CITY — Hurricane Sandy did significant damage to a fishing pier in Ocean City, with heavy surf pounding at the pilings and ripping away part of a longtime structure familiar to residents and visitors. Gov. Martin O’Malley said Monday ...

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OCEAN CITY — Floodwaters inundated seaboard communities in Maryland and Delaware as Hurricane Sandy raced nearer to the mid-Atlantic coast, and residents feared the worst was yet to come as the huge, violent storm was expected to park itself over ...

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