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State grants $500,000 for drug treatment in jails

The Hogan administration said Tuesday it is providing a $500,000 federal grant to programs in county jails to treat inmates with a non-narcotic, nonaddictive medicine that it hopes will help...
Danielle Gelinas, 15, lives in Ocean City and works at Kohrs Bros. on the boardwalk. She says business had been slower than usual but they seem to have more customers on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Ocean City hopeful for strong summer

OCEAN CITY — Merchants and others in Maryland's premier resort are hopeful that that an improving economy, stable gas prices, stepped-up marketing — and the lingering effects of superstorm Sandy...
The atrium shows the view some of the hotel's rooms have.

MGM Resorts and National Harbor announce casino deal

The developers of National Harbor announced Friday they have reached an agreement with Las Vegas giant MGM Resorts International to develop a luxury casino at the proposed gambling site on...
A nine-station security checkpoint will replace the current, narrow checkpoint at Concourse C after the expansion of the B and C concourses at BWI airport as they seek to accommodate the merging of Southwest and AirTran. The current security checkpoint at Concourse C will be used only as an exit.

BWI plans a $100M expansion

Travelers passing through Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport will see extensive changes over the next two years as officials launch a $100 million renovation project that will transform the central...
Decked out in his everyday-everything uniform, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro canned this short putt, March 30, 1961, on the 6th green of the Villareal Golf Club in Havana, Cuba. Blistered right thumb and all, Castro was undaunted as he tried capitalist sport with his economic expert Ernesto (Che) Guevara and Agrarian Reform Institute chief Antonio Nunez Jimenez, in background. Their 1961 round a month before the Bay of Pigs invasion was the beginning of the end for golf in Cuba — soon the communist government had eliminated the sport from the island almost entirely.

BWI flights to Cuba to start in March

A Tampa-based company plans to begin offering flights next spring from BWI-Marshall Airport to Cuba, where travel has been restricted since 1961, shortly after Fidel Castro took power and nationalized...