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<title>Arundel Digest
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<description><![CDATA[Terrorism drill set at light rail station
GLEN BURNIE - County and state officials will run a day-long terrorism training exercise tomorrow at the Cromwell Light Rail Station.Operation Rescue on the Rails will involve 400 people from county agencies, the Maryland Transit Administration and Baltimore...]]></description>
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<title>Arundel Mills inches closer to the ballot
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<description><![CDATA[The debate over slot machines at Arundel Mills mall appears to be headed to a ballot referendum in November.
The county Board of Elections said Thursday that it had accepted just more than 19,000 of the more than 40,000 signatures submitted by voters saying they wanted a ballot item on the county me...]]></description>
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<title>Science whizzes take home grand prizes
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<description><![CDATA[Two north county students claimed top honors this week at the county school system&#39;s annual Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
Bradley Natarian, a junior at Old Mill High School, won grand prize for his study of light beam communications for the third year in a row.Luke Andraka, a freshman a...]]></description>
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<title>&#39;It&#39;s going to be great&#39;
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<description><![CDATA[Ensign Tom Diggs is a paramedic with the Ferndale Volunteer Fire Company, so he is used to seeing some grim scenes.
But he wasn&#39;t quite ready for what he saw in Haiti as a Navy intensive care nurse serving aboard the USNS Comfort.&quot;It was a surprise to see the level of devastation,&quot; the...]]></description>
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<title>17-year-old gets 10 years in prison
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<description><![CDATA[The 17-year-old boy pleaded with a county Circuit Court judge Thursday not to send him to prison.
Yes, he carjacked a man at gunpoint last November in Hanover, but he also earned his high school equivalency certificate at the age of 15 and was ready to give up drugs and turn his life around.&quot;I...]]></description>
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<title>Building a cheaper courtroom
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<description><![CDATA[The ceiling will be lower, the woodwork will be cheaper and the entire room will be narrower.
But considering the new courtroom under construction at the county courthouse in downtown Annapolis will cost about 8 percent of what county officials expected last year - only $100,000 as opposed to $1.2 m...]]></description>
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<title>County loses thousands of ambulance reports
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<description><![CDATA[An attorney&#39;s request for a client&#39;s patient-care report last spring led to the discovery that more than 10,000 ambulance-transport records were missing from the county Fire Department&#39;s electronic reporting system.
The records were lost on a $274,000 reporting program the county purchas...]]></description>
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<title>Feds arrest illegal workers
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<description><![CDATA[Federal immigration officials raided county businesses and homes Thursday, arresting 29 people suspected of being undocumented aliens.
Ernastine Fobbs, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said officials served search warrants at two restaurants, one business office and several res...]]></description>
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<title>Parents ask school board to reconsider redistricting
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<description><![CDATA[Katie Frank walked to the microphone backed by 12 Quarterfield Elementary School parents dressed in red shirts and gave the county school board plenty to think about.
The board was at Glen Burnie High School Wednesday night to listen to public reaction on its plans to redraw the boundaries of three...]]></description>
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<title>Waxter halts high-security placements
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<description><![CDATA[The condition of the Thomas J.S. Waxter Center for female juvenile offenders is so bad that Department of Juvenile Services Secretary Donald DeVore told Capital News Service during a tour Thursday that the facility recently stopped accepting girls into its high-security program.
Also Thursday, sever...]]></description>
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<title>Pepper spray ends children&#39;s party
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<description><![CDATA[The children&#39;s birthday party at a Glen Burnie moon bounce business on Saturday afternoon was supposed to be fun. It might have started that way.
By the end it got so ugly that police were invited to Bounce a Round. They charged two men - arresting one for using a baseball bat to smash the front...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Old Mill parents start school watch
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<description><![CDATA[The sign Carolyn Wallace put in the window of her bright red Volvo, yesterday afternoon, read &quot;Old Mill High School Track Patrol.&quot;
Wallace was one of 15 parents who kicked off a safety campaign created in direct response to the mugging of two track team members two months ago near the scho...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Arundel Digest
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<description><![CDATA[Theater evacuated after small fire
HANOVER - About 3,000 people were evacuated Sunday from the Cinemark Theater at Arundel Mills mall after a small fire broke out in a concession stand, county Fire Department officials said.Firefighters were called to 7000 Arundel Mills Blvd. at about 4:10 p.m. to i...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Business Digest
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<description><![CDATA[BGE: Expect higher energy bills in wake of February blizzards
BALTIMORE - Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. is warning customers of higher-than-expected March bills for Central Maryland residents because of the February blizzards.Utility officials said February was significantly colder than last year....]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>County&#39;s retiree benefits looming large
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<description><![CDATA[A ticking time bomb sits quietly tucked away on page 70 of the county&#39;s financial audit: huge promises with huge price tags and no money to pay for them.
Yet the report spends most of its time collecting dust on county officials&#39; shelves. Most know about it, a few have attempted to address i...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Impeachment becomes point of order
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<description><![CDATA[A county delegate&#39;s attempt to impeach the attorney general later this month could morph into an ugly battle over the power to control issues - and end with him being escorted out of the chamber.
Del. Don Dwyer, R-Glen Burnie, said yesterday he will offer impeachment charges against Attorney Gen...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Officers thwart county jail escape attempt
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<description><![CDATA[Sharp-eyed county jail officers using biometric technology were able to thwart an escape attempt last week by an inmate who tried to pose as another prisoner.
Officials said Gregory Wayne Boyd used another inmate&#39;s identification card in an attempt to get an early release from the Jennifer Road...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Police say July slaying was a murder-for-hire
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<description><![CDATA[The fatal shooting of a man in a quiet Glen Burnie neighborhood last summer was a murder-for-hire, according to court documents.
County police Friday charged Dominic Richard Sanchez, 30, of Baltimore, with conspiracy to commit first- and second-degree murder and other related offenses in the July 15...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Union questions self-reporting of arrests for schools
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<description><![CDATA[County school employees charged, arrested or convicted of a crime would be required to turn themselves in to the school system&#39;s investigations office under a new policy reviewed last week by the county Board of Education.
Officials say it would help them make schools safer for students, but the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Right time for private schools?
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<description><![CDATA[Since 2006, state Sen. Ed DeGrange has tried to create a tax credit for businesses and nonprofit groups that make contributions to certain private and public school initiatives, like scholarships.
So far, none of those efforts has succeeded.But a confluence of events this year makes the Glen Burnie...]]></description>
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<title>Cleaner skies at Brandon Shores
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<description><![CDATA[The white plume rising up from Constellation Energy&#39;s Brandon Shores plant can be seen from miles away.
Billowing out of a wide exhaust stack, it looks like it could be a major source of air pollution.But that water vapor actually is a sign that the Pasadena plant is one of the cleanest coal-fir...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>County is red, board is blue
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<description><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County may run red during elections, but its school board has turned almost completely blue.
Just one Republican remains on the Board of Education; the other seven adult members are all registered Democrats. Even the student board member, who&#39;s too young to register and hasn&#39;t p...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Political Notes: Dwyer vows to impeach Gansler
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<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#39;S NOTE: Political Notes is a weekly look at government and political news. Send items to rhutzell@mdgazette.com.
Seething that the state attorney general believes Maryland should recognize out-of-state gay marriages, a county delegate pledged this week to impeach him even though the House...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Stop Slots tops goal on petition
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<description><![CDATA[Residents fighting to keep slots away from Arundel Mills mall say they turned in nearly 17,000 signatures yesterday, a crucial step toward taking the issue to a referendum in November.
Although the signatures, combined with 13,000 validated by the county Board of Elections last month, would appear t...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Driver guilty in Glen Burnie fatal
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<description><![CDATA[A Linthicum Heights man should have known last summer he was too tired to drive before he ran over and killed a woman walking to church in Glen Burnie, according to county prosecutors.
Matthew Evan Norwood, 27, of Cleveland Road, pleaded guilty Thursday in county Circuit Court in Annapolis to one co...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Catholic school closings hit close to home
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<description><![CDATA[Gary O&#39;Neil has two grandchildren who attend St. Rose of Lima. His wife&#39;s entire family went there too.
So when news came this week that the Catholic school was among 13 that will close in June, the Brooklyn Park man was as worried about his community as he was his family.&quot;I think it&#3...]]></description>
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<title>Arundel Digest
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<description><![CDATA[Glen Burnie man guilty of murder
HONESDALE, Pa. - A three-year murder investigation involving a body found dumped in Jessup ended last week with a Hanover man&#39;s guilty plea.Duna Turon Bulow, 26, who has been incarcerated at Wayne County Correctional Facility since March 2009, pleaded guilty to o...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>2 convicted, deported for smuggling new drug
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<description><![CDATA[Two British men pleaded guilty last week to trying to smuggle 95 pounds of an unusual street drug through customs at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
Peter Leahy, 41, and Cimarron Storer, 36 - both of whom had spent the previous 81 days at the Jennifer Road Detention Center - were turned over Thursday...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Monarch Academy&#39;s first six months go smoothly
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<description><![CDATA[On their first day, Monarch Academy students were greeted at a school in an office park with walls like an empty canvas.
Six months later and the walls are covered, floor-to-ceiling, with a full-color mural depicting what Glen Burnie was like before Ritchie and Crain Highways. It&#39;s a reminder of...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>State approves fly ash landfill
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<description><![CDATA[The state has tentatively said yes to a fly ash landfill just over the county line.
Jay Apperson, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment, said yesterday that the agency has prepared a draft permit allowing Constellation Energy to dump fly ash, a byproduct of its two coal-fired pl...]]></description>
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<title>Disabled vets to get bigger checks
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<description><![CDATA[A tweak in county law will bring larger disability checks to veterans who left behind county jobs to serve in the military.
The County Council Monday night voted unanimously to pay those workers as if they were disabled while working for the county.&quot;I feel like if they are offering their lives...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>BWI chauffeurs handcuffed, jailed for hours
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<description><![CDATA[For all Crofton Coach and Courier owner Jim Overmier knew, one of his drivers, Robert Creecy, had been kidnapped, robbed or carjacked on a recent Tuesday night.
No one had heard from Creecy, 59, since he arrived at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport at 9 p.m. to pick up a couple who had scheduled for a d...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Athletic free rides are scarce
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<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s Kathy Zerrlaut&#39;s job to make sure University of Maryland, Baltimore County athletes and teams are in compliance with NCAA regulations.
So in a seminar Monday night at Chesapeake High School, Zerrlaut warned about 18 students and parents against misbehaving coaches, slacking on grades an...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Two-alarm blaze displaces family
FORT MEADE - A family of five was displaced Sunday afternoon in a two-alarm fire.Firefighters from Fort George G. Meade responded to a fire in one of the units in a row of five townhouses in the 5000 block of Stewart Court at about 12:15 p.m., said Mary Doyle, an Arm...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Ex-teacher admits to sex with 17-year-old student
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<description><![CDATA[As a mother, Celeste McDonald suspected something was wrong.
Her son, a 17-year-old Northeast High School student, seemed to be a little too close to Kristyn Breeds, a special-education teacher and track coach at the school.But when McDonald confronted Breeds last spring, she burst into tears and in...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Gangs target of delegates
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<description><![CDATA[Frustrated by mounting gang activity in north county, a team of six delegates have drafted a package of 10 bills to crack down on gang crimes.
Anne Arundel County is not in crisis, said Del. Steve Schuh. But it could be, if officials don&#39;t get serious about gangs.&quot;Gangs are like a cancer. I...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Maryland recognizes out-of-state gay marriages
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<description><![CDATA[EDITOR&#39;S NOTE: Political Notes is a weekly look at government and political news. Send items to rhutzell@mdgazette.com.
A state attorney general&#39;s opinion allowing the recognition of gay marriages performed in other states has sparked cheers from supporters and outrage from opponents, with o...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Teen gets 40 years for killing mother
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<description><![CDATA[The system failed a Glen Burnie teenager who beat, choked and stabbed his mother to death last spring inside their apartment, according to a county judge.
Circuit Court Judge Pamela L. North said on Wednesday that it was clear that William J. Skiratko repeatedly told family members, police and socia...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Voicing a painful message: Don&#39;t drink and drive
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<description><![CDATA[Paula Celentano&#39;s daughter reports open alcohol containers in cars to police, her husband speaks to drunken driving offenders, and now Celentano is supporting passage of a bill that aims to keep those offenders off the road.
The family&#39;s activism was spurred by a 2001 crash in which a drunke...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>&#39;The highest level of pain&#39;
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<description><![CDATA[The story made international headlines and touched hearts around the world.
A Haitian woman, 32-weeks pregnant, had badly fractured her pelvis and femur in last month&#39;s earthquake. Her baby not only survived the quake, but was successfully delivered aboard the USNS Comfort.Named Esther, the prem...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Some county residents are feeling harassed by phone calls to their homes asking about an anti-slots petition they signed.
Residents from all over the county have complained to county councilmen, the county Board of Elections and the Maryland Gazette about calls they&#39;ve been getting from Advantag...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Judge gets probation for illegal dumping
ANNAPOLIS - A Baltimore District Court judge received probation before judgment Thursday on charges he illegally dumped construction debris in the water outside his Pasadena home in an attempt to repair his shoreline.Attorneys for Judge Askew W. Gatewood Jr....]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dan and Linda Fox of Pasadena have spent the last 14 years fighting for more state funding for residents with developmental disabilities.
Their 38-year-old daughter, Tracy,, who suffers from seizures and mental disabilities, lives in a group home run by the nonprofit Bello Machre. She has the servic...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As a mother, Celeste McDonald suspected something was wrong.
Her son, a 17-year-old Northeast High School student, seemed to be a little too close to Kristyn Breeds, a special-education teacher and track coach at the school.But when McDonald confronted Breeds last spring, she burst into tears and in...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Leopold in recovery after back surgery
ANNAPOLIS - County Executive John R. Leopold is recovering today from a back procedure aides described as a &quot;minor elective surgery.&quot;Leopold&#39;s staff declined to elaborate on the nature of the surgery or the ailment it was supposed to relieve. But...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The state has identified seven potential sources of raw sewage flowing into Furnace Creek, one of three north county waterways closed for decades because of bacterial pollution.
According to a Maryland Department of the Environment report obtained by the Maryland Gazette, inspectors found evidence t...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Fraud alleged in slots petition drive
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<description><![CDATA[The company building a casino at Arundel Mills mall filed a lawsuit yesterday alleging &quot;massive fraud&quot; in the petition drive aimed at stopping the casino.
According to the complaint, signatures were forged, signature collectors misled voters and the Anne Arundel County Board of Elections d...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Local groups face competition for state bonds
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<description><![CDATA[When the Coordinating Center for Home and Community Care asked local delegates and senators for nearly $3.5 million to buy a new building, some of them were taken aback.
The Millersville nonprofit, which provides support for people with disabilities, is a great resource.&quot;But $3.5 million is abo...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell plans to ask the state this year to waive the maximum number of snow days allowed: Five.If granted, such a waiver would bring the number of days county students go to school this year down from a planned 181 to 176, and leave just one snow day to make up either at th...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Pasadena parents spot son in combat photograph
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<description><![CDATA[Karl and Debbie Holub of Pasadena hadn&#39;t heard from their son in weeks.
They knew Marine Lt. Scott Holub was part of a unit taking part in the attack on the Taliban stronghold in Marjah, Afghanistan. But that was all.&quot;We probably hadn&#39;t had any direct communication with him in about thr...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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