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Business Owners Excited for Capitals Return after NHL Lockout

When the Washington Capitals take the ice for the first time this season on Saturday, the only people cheering louder than the fans will be business owners whose profits were frozen by the NHL lockout.

Maryland Small Arms Range, Inc. is a shooting range and gun store located near Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility Washington in Upper Marlboro. Speer Gold Dot Ammunition is a top seller among law enforcement officials for their duty weapons. (photo by Rashee Raj Kumar/Capital News Service).
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Fear Drives Gun Sales Sky High in Maryland

Fears of new gun control regulations proposed by President Barack Obama and Gov. Martin O’Malley have intensified sales at Maryland gun shops.

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Gov. O’Malley Proposes Strict New Gun Control Laws

If O’Malley’s gets his wish, Maryland would ban the sale of assault weapons, limit the ammunition capacity of magazines and require handgun buyers to submit fingerprints as part of the licensing requirement.

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President Obama and Gov. Martin O’Malley Unveil Their New Public Safety Packages

Gov. Martin O’malley unveiled a gun control and public safety package similar to the one President Obama set before Congress on Wednesday. The list contains some marquee differences to current Maryland laws.

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UMD Lab Helps Keep Inauguration Traffic on Track

A transportation system created by the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park will be used during Monday’s Presidential Inauguration

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Morgan State Only HBCU to Receive Additional State Funding for Faculty

Maryland’s historically black colleges need more funding to assist in transitioning adjunct professors to full-time faculty, members of the Legislative Black Caucus said Thursday morning in Annapolis. The Black Caucus requested an additional $2 million for each of Maryland’s four…

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Fracking Changes Affect Maryland Studies

Companies are moving fracking operations to drilling for other types of gas not available in Maryland.

Advocates, Legislators Advocate for Reducing Corporate Money in Politics

Activists and Maryland lawmakers rallied in front of the state capitol Thursday to oppose the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision and advocate for ways to pull corporate money out of campaign finance.

Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said the Treasury Department’s extension of the timeline for Financial Management Service employees to relocate from Prince George’s County to West Virginia is a “huge success.” (Capital News Service photo by Krystal Nancoo-Russell)
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Treasury Department Delays Move of Maryland Employees to West Virginia

The Treasury Department has delayed the relocation of 450 federal employees from Prince George’s County to West Virginia by five years, the department said Thursday.

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Population Growth Makes Stormwater Runoff a Challenge for Chesapeake Bay

Most Chesapeake Bay health indicators improved or stayed the same in 2012, but urban and suburban stormwater runoff got worse, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation told the House Environmental Matters Committee Wednesday.