Due to high online traffic Thursday, the Attorney Information System (AIS) experienced temporary outages on the Maryland Courts website, causing issues for some lawyers attempting to pay their annual Client Protection Fund (CPF) assessment.

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland utilities will no longer be able to charge customers for lost sales during the first 24 hours of a major power outage. The Maryland Public Service Commission announced Friday that the policy would end immediately. The panel ...

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Gas prices are finally falling, but motorists shouldn’t expect the numbers at the pump to drop quickly this fall. The national average for retail gasoline fell about a penny Friday to $3.833 per gallon, according to AAA, Wright Express and ...

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Unless utilities fundamentally change how they distribute energy, they won’t be able to restore power to all customers within 24 hours after a hurricane-like storm, officials told Maryland regulators on Thursday. Douglas R.M. Nazarian, chairman of Maryland’s Public Service Commission, ...

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President Barack Obama accepted the Democratic party's nomination in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, saying he needs more time to fix the fragile national economy. Here's a few state government headlines to go along with that national news.

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Baltimore Gas & Electric said in a report to state regulators that a summer storm that knocked out power to more than a million people statewide, caused more than 762,000 of its customers to lose power with the average outage ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland state senator wants to stop allowing utilities to charge a fee to cover storm-related losses, even after many customers had to go without power for days. Sen. Brian Frosh, D-Montgomery, said in an interview Thursday that ...

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WASHINGTON — Nearly a week after deadly summer storms struck the mid-Atlantic area, tens of thousands of residents still remain without power. At 4 p.m. Friday, Pepco was reporting about 4,948 outages on its website. Most of the outages were ...

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Utility workers were working Thursday to return lights and air conditions to hundreds of thousands of people who remained without power after last week’s violent storms, even as more strong storms moved in. The number without power was dropping, but ...

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WASHINGTON — Thousands of residents are still struggling without power days after severe storms swept through the mid-Atlantic region. Pepco said it has restored power to more than 90 percent of its customers in Washington and Maryland suburbs since the ...

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