Maryland officials have approved spending $105 million on upgrades to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to accommodate more international flights.

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Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposed $39 billion budget, unveiled this week, includes $12.9 million for upgrades at the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s Central Branch.

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WILLIAMSPORT — Potomac Edison says it’s spending $55 million this year to upgrade its electrical system in western Maryland and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The company said Tuesday that the projects include new distribution circuits and replacement of ...

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WASHINGTON — Amtrak is proposing a $7 billion to upgrade Union Station in Washington to turn it into a high-speed rail hub for the Northeast. The Washington Post reports that a plan to be unveiled Wednesday afternoon calls for doubling ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s Board of Public Works has approved more than $37 million in grants for upgrading septic systems and wastewater treatment plants. The Department of the Environment says the approval Wednesday includes $14.9 million in grants from the Bay ...

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LANSING, Mich. — Drug developer Emergent BioSolutions Inc. says it wants to spend $108 million to upgrade operations in Michigan by 2016. The Lansing State Journal reports the Rockville-based company wants to build a $9.6 million administration building and spend ...

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WASHINGTON — Metro officials have known for six years that some of the agency’s rail cars have brake parts that fail sooner than expected, but the transit agency did not upgrade the equipment because it didn’t have the money. That’s ...

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Even stingrays ought to have new digs. That’s the theory behind a loan request scheduled to come before the Baltimore City Board of Estimates on Wednesday. The board is poised to vote on a request for $500,000 by officials of the National Aquarium ...

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WILLIAMSPORT — The National Park Service said Monday it aims to make the western Maryland town of Williamsport a star attraction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, complete with a turn-of the-20th-century town square and boat rides ...

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The expanded Seagirt Marine Terminal will open for business in August 2012, its operator said Wednesday, with upgrades that will make the Port of Baltimore more hospitable to the next generation of supersized cargo ships. Port officials hope the terminal ...

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