HAGERSTOWN — The Maryland Theatre in downtown Hagerstown is seeking public funds for $1.5 million in improvements before its 100th birthday next year. The Herald-Mail reported in its Wednesday edition on plans for the theater that is home to the ...

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OXON HILL — Water officials in Maryland say they hope to put a major water pipe back into service this weekend after repairs. Work on the pipe has meant that hundreds of thousands of people in southern Prince George’s County ...

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WASHINGTON — Washington’s Metro transit agency has exceeded its overtime budget by 62 percent so far this year as it tries to tackle a repair backlog. Metro has spent $9.2 million more than budgeted on overtime in the first quarter ...

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When construction crews arrived on Light Street to repair a broken water main July 16, Department of Public Works officials told the public they’d be done in three weeks.

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Nearly a month after a 20-inch water main burst downtown, buckling pavement on Light Street near Redwood Street, city officials say repairs are expected to be completed by Monday. Department of Public Works’ workers working to repair the damage caused ...

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Public works officials say repairs to the broken 20-inch water main downtown near the Inner Harbor will take three weeks to complete. Commuters are warned that rush hours are looking for bad for that time, but don’t have to be ...

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Weathering this month’s oppressive heat wave, with day after blistering day of near-record mercury readings, was enough to make one crack. Finally, U.S. Route 50 did. A 50-foot portion of the concrete east-west highway that connects the Washington, D.C., suburbs ...

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Public works officials in Baltimore say there may be brief interruptions in water service when a 54-inch main in the southwestern part of the city is repaired. An inspection revealed a potential failure on the main that runs from the ...

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WASHINGTON — Repairs to the Washington Monument will require massive scaffolding to be built around the 555-foot obelisk and may keep it closed into 2014 after it was damaged by an earthquake last year, the National Park Service said Monday. ...

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WASHINGTON — Inadequate safeguards and poor communications are to blame for a Metro transit accident that killed two workers doing track work two years ago, federal safety investigators said Friday. The National Transportation Safety Board issued its final report on ...

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