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Case against Iranian foundation threatens mosques

AP News 10 days ago

Federal action against Iranian foundation threatens future of 4 American mosques The organization that federal investigators say is a front for the Iranian government has spent millions of dollars over the years on philanthropy: buying property for four U.S. mosques, funding religious ...

Chesapeake crabbers not going for Va.'s buyout

AP News 10 days ago

Va. dangles $6.7M to lure watermen out of the Chesapeake Bay crab business, gets few bites To ease pressures on the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population, Virginia is paying watermen to stay out of the water, using $6.7 million in federal disaster ...

Md. authorities charge 5 people with plastic theft

AP News 11 days ago

5 charged with large-scale theft of plastic delivery containers in Maryland county Authorities in Prince George's County have charged five people in the large-scale theft of plastic pallets and delivery containers. State's Attorney Glenn Ivey says the ring stole containers belonging to ...

12 charged after library books worth $87K stolen

AP News 13 days ago

12 people charged with stealing books after $87,000 worth taken from public libraries in Md. Authorities threw the book at 12 people Tuesday, accusing them of checking out pricey textbooks from a public library system outside Washington to sell for quick cash. ...

Md. grocery store evacuated after 14 fall ill

AP News 13 days ago

Md. grocery store evacuated after people complain of gasoline smell; 6 taken to hospital Six people are on their way to the hosptial after a strange smell sickened more than a dozen people at a Maryland grocery store. Montgomery County fire department ...

Court ends tobacco company payments in Md., Pa.

AP News 17 days ago

NC Supreme Court sides with tobacco companies over ending payments to Md., Pa. growers North Carolina's highest court ruled Friday that three cigarette companies no longer have to make payments to tobacco farmers in Maryland and Pennsylvania under a decade-old settlement. The ...

Hundreds of watermen make Virginia an offer

AP News 17 days ago

Make me an offer: Virginia crabbers offer up licenses in bids totaling $30.4 million One-third of Virginia's watermen have offered to sell their licenses back to the state under a buyback program intended to ease pressure on the Chesapeake Bay crab. The ...

Md. gov to create commission on small business

AP News 17 days ago

Maryland Gov. O'Malley says he'll create commission on small business Gov. Martin O'Malley says he plans to create Maryland's first commission on small business. It's one of a variety of plans to help small businesses the governor is outlining on Thursday night ...

Various Health Care Reform Opponents Protest On Capitol Hill

Getty Images 18 days ago

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 05: Anti-abortion demonstrators Albert Stecklein (L) of Bethesda, Maryland, and Diana Roccograndi of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and don a paper masks of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) while protesting outside the ...

Maine's Farnsworth Art Museum hires new director

AP News 18 days ago

Maine's Farnsworth Art Museum hires longtime director of a Maryland museum to take top spot The Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine is hiring the longtime director of a Maryland museum to take its top spot. Christopher Brownawell has agreed to become the ...

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