WASHINGTON — The Maryland Public Service Commission has wrapped up the last of eight public hearings on electric companies’ handling of a June storm known as a derecho that caused outages for days. WTOP-FM radio station in Washington reports that ...

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — An approaching storm prompted the U.S. military to place its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under an alert Wednesday and cancel several days of pretrial hearings in the case of five prisoners charged in ...

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Do you like taking photos? The Daily Record wants your photos for print and online. Send us your Maryland Moment. Check out a slideshow of our past Photos of the Day from The Daily Record’s staff photographers. We also have ...

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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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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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ROCKVILLE — A trash dropoff site in Montgomery County says more than 4,800 tons of tree debris has been dropped off at the facility following last week’s storms. Peter Karasik, the manager of the Shady Grove Processing Facility and Transfer ...

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I don’t normally bring work home, but Friday I decided that I needed to work through the weekend. It takes a lot for me to get the motivation to work during the weekends in the summer because I normally spend ...

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Daily Record Photographer Maximilian Franz was in Northeast Baltimore on Monday to see how the community was recovering from Friday night's deadly storm -- and dealing with scorching temperatures.

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WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of people remain in the dark more than three days after summer storms clobbered the mid-Atlantic region. At 5:15 a.m. Tuesday, Pepco was reporting about 116,570 power outages on its website. Montgomery County had the ...

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ELKTON — Maryland’s biggest tree has lost its top ranking after being damaged in a storm last week. The Department of Natural Resources says the Eder Park silver maple in Elkton lost the larger of two main sections splitting off ...

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