FLINTSTONE — Maryland’s slot-machine commission is hearing from the public and the businesses that aim to bring legal gambling to Rocky Gap State Park. The panel is set to tour the site before meeting Tuesday afternoon at the Rocky Gap ...

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Maryland’s casinos brought in $12.9 million in October, a decrease of $1 million from the month before, according to figures released Monday by the Maryland State Lottery Agency. Hollywood Casino Perryville accounted for $9.1 million, a 20 percent decline from ...

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Ocean City will report every 90 days for the next three years on the steps it is taking in response to age-bias complaints, under a consent decree the town reached this month with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The ...

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OCEAN CITY — The Coast Guard has plans to replace the landmark tower that sat at the entrance to the Ocean City Inlet until it was ripped away by Hurricane Irene. The Daily Times of Salisbury reports the tower was ...

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A majority of Marylanders are willing to shell out more for electricity to buy power from offshore wind farms, according to a poll released Monday by a coalition of environmental groups. The survey’s respondents were asked, “Please indicate whether you ...

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An Ocean City hotel is voluntarily closing a week earlier than planned for the season after three people who were guests developed legionellosis about a week after staying there. Maryland’s health department made the announcement Wednesday. The health department says ...

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How private is your balcony? And how much cause do police need to have before they enter and search it? The Court of Special Appeals wrestled with those questions and determined that a second-story balcony was private and that the ...

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OCEAN CITY — A U.S. District judge in Baltimore has ruled that Ocean City cannot prevent an artist from selling his work on the Boardwalk until a trial is held on the matter. The Rutherford Institute of Charlottesville, Va., filed ...

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OCEAN CITY — Sunny weather has saved a beach weekend on the shores of Maryland and Delaware after Hurricane Irene shuttered beach towns a week earlier. Carol Everhart of the Rehoboth and Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce tells The Daily ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Comptroller Peter Franchot’s office estimates Maryland lost more than $2 million in revenue due to business lost in Ocean City because of Hurricane Irene last weekend. Franchot estimated the state lost about $1.75 million in sales tax revenue ...

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