ANNAPOLIS — A measure introduced in the Maryland Senate on Monday night would allow table games like blackjack at casinos and make it possible to build a casino in Prince George’s County. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Douglas J.J. Peters, ...

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A mine company has settled wrongful death lawsuits with families of all 29 victims of West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch disaster, an attorney for the estates of two miners said Tuesday. Virginia-based Alpha Natural Resources did not ...

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Gambling is shaping up to be one of the most interesting debates of the 2012 legislative session in Maryland and, underscoring the need that many in the General Assembly feel to approve table games, it’s going to be a big ...

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SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Two West Virginia residents are again challenging charges that two utilities imposed on customers to recover the costs of promoting a proposed multistate power line. Keryn Newman of Shepherdstown and Alison Haverty of Chloe claim FirstEnergy and ...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A panel of federal judges on Tuesday voided West Virginia’s congressional redistricting plan and told the Legislature and the governor that it would impose a new blueprint if they do not come up with an alternative by ...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Another attempt to resolve a West Virginia class-action pollution lawsuit against Monsanto Co. has failed. Media outlets reported that several hundred plaintiffs attended a court-ordered mediation Tuesday at a Charleston hotel but no settlement was reached. An ...

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BEAVER, W.Va. — In the biggest settlement ever reached in a U.S. mining disaster, the new owners of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men were killed in an explosion agreed Tuesday to pay $210 million over a tragedy ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A West Virginia man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting of his former girlfriend at her Hagerstown home in June. The Herald-Mail newspaper reports that 44-year-old Randy McPeak entered the plea Monday in Hagerstown. McPeak, ...

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KINGWOOD, W.Va. — Producers of the All Good Music Festival in West Virginia deny responsibility for an accident that killed one South Carolina woman and injured two others. Maryland-based Walther Productions filed its responses to a lawsuit this week in ...

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The father of a 20-year-old South Carolina woman crushed under a truck as she slept in a tent at the All Good Music Festival is suing the event producers, hosts, traffic directors and security providers for negligence. ...

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