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Police Beat: Family displaced by fire
Annapolis Capital
AP VIDEO more>> An Arnold family was displaced from their home after it caught fire yesterday morning, county fire officials said. Firefighters were called to the house in the 200 block of Turnwing Drive shortly after 9 am, county fire spokesman Capt.

Local legislation offered on slots, alcohol licenses
Cumberland Times-News
House Bill 222 would give the Garrett County Board of License Commissioners discretion in handling offenses relating to nudity or sexual displays that occur at a licensed establishment. The board, who asked Beitzel to file the bill, is the authority ...

Footsteps: United States v. Milner
Amerisurv
1963 The upland owners began to lease the tidelands adjacent to their homes from the Lummi Nation. 1988 The lease of the tidelands by the upland owners expires. The upland owners decline to renew the lease. 2002 The most recent survey of record is ...

Bill would impose civil penalties on homestead credit scofflaws
Baltimore Sun
Last month, state officials revoked more than 550 homestead credits in Baltimore after a Baltimore Sun analysis showed that hundreds of owners were receiving breaks on multiple homes in violation of state law. The owners now owe back taxes, ...

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Unemployed workers train to rebuild E. Balto. — and their lives
Baltimore Sun
By Lorraine Mirabella, The Baltimore Sun Just north of the Johns Hopkins medical campus, in the Middle East section of East Baltimore — an area where hundreds of families were moved out and hundreds of homes razed as part of a $1.8 billion urban ...

Bill would impose civil penalties on homestead credit scofflaws
Baltimore Sun
Last month, state officials revoked more than 550 homestead credits in Baltimore after a Baltimore Sun analysis showed that hundreds of owners were receiving breaks on multiple homes in violation of state law. The owners now owe back taxes, ...

In West Baltimore, a funeral for “The American Dream”
Baltimore Brew
In front of a Wells Fargo Bank branch on a stretch of North Ave. pockmarked with vacant row-homes and signs advertising foreclosure auctions, about 75 people gathered for a ceremony at times solemn and at other moments angry.

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Frederick city annexation would not increase number of homes
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
However, the developer of Crumland Farm does not intend to increase the number of houses or commercial space it originally planned. In 2009, the city annexed 235 acres of the Crumland Farm property along US Route 15, which is slated for up to 1200 ...

Building industry group names officers
So Md News
Stephen J. Nardella, senior vice president of operations for Winchester Homes in Bethesda, was installed Jan. 26 as the 51st president of the Maryland-National Capital Building Industry Association. MNCBIA's jurisdiction includes Calvert, Charles, ...

Welcome Back to WAC: Home Sweet Home
Washington College Elm
Leaving family behind at home can be tough, but leaving at the end of last semester was almost as hard. Weeks passed before students could be reunited with their best friends here at WC and, as a freshman, I found I was homesick, even though I spent ...

OC Design Guidelines Tweaked
The Dispatch
OCEAN CITY – The Mayor and City Council voted Tuesday to exclude single-family homes from proposed design guidelines that are scheduled to be made final next week. This week Councilman Joe Hall expressed concern over single-family homes being included ...

Habitat House Project In Berlin Underway
The Dispatch
BERLIN -- The third and final house to be built by Worcester County's Habitat for Humanity on a property located in Berlin is on schedule to be completed in April. After its completion, the organization will be looking for more property in Worcester ...

Rejected Shelter Project Spurs Debate Over Georgetown Housing
WBOC TV 16
A decision by Georgetown leaders to reject a new homeless shelter has outraged fair housing advocates and sparked an emotional debate over regulation of similar housing in town. The town council voted unanimously to deny a conditional use permit for ...

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Ex-Baraka student gets 70 months for drug conspiracy
Baltimore Sun
Over the next several years, he would give up a position at a Mississippi boarding school, leave his mother's home, and gain — then lose — a spot as an extra on the HBO series "The Wire," before turning to street crimes. He was previously convicted ...

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Hagerstown to sell three houses to Habitat for Humanity
The Herald-Mail
The Hagerstown City Council has tentatively agreed to sell three houses to Habitat for Humanity. The five-member council Tuesday night unanimously approved the introduction of an ordinance to sell the houses to Habitat for Humanity of Washington County ...

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BAA pledges to sell housing on property market
This is Total Essex
A CAMPAIGN group said it is "incredibly pleased" that BAA has promised to sell 279 houses near to Stansted Airport. Stop Stansted Expansion (SSE) claims the sale "implies a clear intention against building a second runway" at the airport and "is a ...

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University Park hosts fair to spark interest in energy-efficient home improvements
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
It's been a year since University Park resident Tassie Hanna began retrofitting her home with attic and staircase insulation and a new freezer, which lowered her monthly energy bill by 18 percent, she said. “I encourage anyone to do this,” she said.

Tackling foreclosures in-house
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
2008 File Photo Deputy Alvin Lide of the Prince George's Sheriff's Department stands guard in front of an Upper Marlboro home that was in the process of being evicted. Despite numerous federal, state and nonprofit programs created to help struggling ...

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Baltimore Sun
Cole says he alerted state to Federal Hill assessment error several years ago
Baltimore Sun
By Scott Calvert, The Baltimore Sun City Councilman William H. Cole IV said Wednesday evening that his office told state assessors several years ago that they had mistakenly valued a large Federal Hill home as if it were a fraction of its true size.

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Advocates voice concerns over embattled foster care provider
Baltimore Sun (blog)
Advocates for Maryland's abused and neglected youths said Wednesday that the state's second-largest foster care placement company failed the children in its care by allowing the qualification assessments of the homes they live in to lapse.

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