ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley has created a commission to help law enforcers and others better respond to incidents involving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. O’Malley issued an executive order creating the Maryland Commission for Effective Community Inclusion of ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley has appointed 11 members to Maryland’s Medical Marijuana Commission. The governor announced the appointments on Thursday. The commission has the authority to permit academic research centers to design and implement programs to make marijuana available ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts has voted to grant general approval to architect Frank Gehry’s design for a planned national memorial honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington. The commission overseeing civic art and architecture in the capital ...

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A city panel voted unanimously on Tuesday to stall demolition of the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre until at least March 2013.

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ANNAPOLIS — Regulations requiring new Maryland construction to use the best technology in septic systems would help clean up the Chesapeake Bay, supporters told lawmakers Tuesday, but critics said the proposal by Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration is a back-door effort ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C. Gray is the new chairman of the Chesapeake Executive Council, the policy-making body of the program overseeing the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay. Gray’s election came Monday at the annual meeting ...

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ANNAPOLIS — As the gambling expansion work group nears a Wednesday deadline to recommend changes to the state’s casino gambling law, the panel’s deliberations have slowed the final decision on a facility planned for Baltimore. The 11-member work group held ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A 2009 federal study that concluded groundwater contamination from Fort Detrick was unlikely to have harmful health effects was flawed, a national scientific panel said Monday, prompting the state’s two U.S. senators to demand a faster cleanup of ...

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HAGERSTOWN — U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski is demanding a faster cleanup of Fort Detrick groundwater after a national panel of scientists faulted a study that concluded harmful health effects were unlikely. The Maryland Democrat said Monday that cleanup efforts at ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia Senate committee’s Republican majority has advanced a House bill that would eliminate state funding for abortions for low-income women. Del. Mark Cole’s legislation heads to a Senate floor vote early next week after an 8-7 ...

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