SALISBURY — Local governments in Maryland’s shore communities are weighing whether to raise taxes as they struggle with budgets hurt by declining property values. The Daily Times reports that Salisbury Mayor Jim Ireton has proposed raising the property tax rate ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland commission is scheduled to consider granting a slot machines license for a casino at Rocky Gap State Park. The state’s Video Lottery Facility Location Commission is set to consider the proposal on Thursday in Annapolis. Evitts ...

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OCEAN CITY — Ocean City’s lifeguards like to call themselves the “just add water beach patrol,” because people tend to think they simply show up for the summer months to patrol the resort’s beaches. But there’s more to it than ...

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OCEAN CITY — Crews are finishing the first phase of the Ocean City boardwalk reconstruction project. The Daily Times of Salisbury reports the boardwalk is expected to be ready in time for the town’s inaugural Susan G. Komen race Sunday. ...

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A historic Ocean City boardwalk hotel that was host to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease last summer is being sued for $6 million by one of those afflicted with disease. Pat E. Dent and his wife, Martha, filed the lawsuit ...

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ANNAPOLIS — John Congedo thinks the failure of offshore wind energy legislation in the General Assembly only delays the inevitable. Those turbines off the coast of Ocean City are coming, one way or the other, he says. “It’s not about ...

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With lobbyists and business owners sitting in the balcony, the House of Delegates gave approval to offshore wind legislation supported by Gov. Martin O’Malley on Friday, shifting onus to the Senate and setting up the real show for next week. ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland House of Delegates voted 88-47 on Friday for a scaled-back measure to help develop offshore wind off the coast of Ocean City in as soon as five years. Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley is backing the legislation ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The House of Delegates gave preliminary approval on Thursday to an administration bill that creates incentives for developers to build wind turbines off the coast of Ocean City. HB 441 could receive a final vote in the House ...

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Erika Elaine Sifrit, serving a life sentence plus 20 years for killing and dismembering a Virginia couple in an Ocean City condominium, is asking a federal court to vacate her convictions based on ineffective assistance of counsel at her 2003 ...

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