Maryland power providers, under fire for blackouts after severe storms, are trying to burnish their image, and provide better service, by using social media to connect with customers. Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are now common ways to ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen says Pepco should not receive a 4 percent rate increase until the utility makes meaningful progress on reliability. Van Hollen made the recommendation Thursday, a day before a deadline for the Maryland Public ...

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The University of Maryland is experiencing a power outage on its Baltimore campus. University of Maryland spokesman Ed Fishel says most of the campus is without power and all academic buildings are closed until further notice. Fishel says essential employees ...

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HAGERSTOWN — Electric utilities in Maryland say about 1,000 customers remain without power after a freak October snowstorm. Allegheny Power said Tuesday it had about 800 outages. Nearly 700 of those are in Washington County. Delmarva Power and BGE report ...

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NEW YORK — BlackBerry users across the world were exasperated Wednesday as an outage of email, messaging and Internet services on the phones spread to the U.S. and Canada and stretched into the third day for Europe, Asia, Latin America ...

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Drew Greenblatt’s robots took the day off Monday. The machines sat idle in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene as the manufacturing floor of Marlin Steel Wire Products was left without electricity, and Greenblatt without an idea of when it would ...

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WASHINGTON — About 3,400 customers in the Washington region are without power amid a heat wave. As of 6:15 a.m. Wednesday, Pepco was reporting on its website that about 3,320 customers were without power in Washington. Another 220 customers lacked ...

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Baltimore Gas and Electric says out-of-state utility resources are on standby before a second wave of a winter storm hits the state. About 200 out-of-state linemen were expected to arrive Tuesday as part of the 1,600 people standing by for ...

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