WEST OCEAN CITY — A fledgling West Ocean City-based bakery has struck a deal to distribute handmade miniature Smith Island Cakes to 29 Giant grocery stores in Maryland, Delaware, and Northern Virginia. The Original Smith Island Cake Co., a patisserie ...

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OCEAN CITY — Del Baker, a firefighter-paramedic in Ocean City, arrived at the site of a rollover car accident last summer and discovered an increasingly common problem: None of the victims spoke or understood English. Baker pulled out a new ...

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Incumbent prosecutors in six contested races had a mixed day at the polls on Tuesday, with two Democrats losing their jobs to Republicans and one race that may not be decided for weeks. The toss-up is in Worcester County. Republican ...

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Ocean City’s “Rodney the Lifeguard” will remain on duty for the next few years after the resort granted a two-year contract extension to the ad agency behind the campaign. The fictitious “spokesguard” for the beach town just ended his second ...

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Baltimore City has reached a $390,000 settlement of its hotel occupancy tax lawsuit against Priceline.com Inc. and two related e-booking companies. The deal, approved by the Board of Estimates last Wednesday, covers Priceline’s past tax liability, going back at least ...

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The casino at Ocean Downs is four months away from its planned opening date and it looks like the construction crews may need every bit of it. They were hard at it this morning — laying brick in the front, ...

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I guess when you think about it, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey are pretty boardwalk-heavy compared with other U.S. shorelines … but we’ll take what we can get. Especially when it means Maryland’s Ocean City boardwalk is rated by ...

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Paul Carlin, the Maryland State Bar Association’s executive director, showed me Thursday the newest piece of memorabilia that will be hanging at the organization’s Baltimore headquarters: a letter from then-U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger declining an invitation ...

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In this never-ending quest by phone companies to alleviate the pressures of thinking for ourselves, the Ocean City Department of Tourism is jumping on board and has announced the launch of its free iPhone application. Ocean City Mobile is now ...

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Happy Monday! Here are some law blog posts for you to digest before you head downy ocean for the MSBA annual meeting: Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez has been teaching political science at Texas Tech University and peddling an ...

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