AP Enterprise: Egg farm owner was able to expand business despite being a ‘habitual violator’

Iowa approved egg farm tied to ‘habitual violator’

Park Service recruits students to guard historic sites, diversify force on fast-track to jobs

Park Service has students guard historic sites

From floating wetlands to porous asphalt, researchers show off ideas to save Chesapeake Bay

Researchers present ideas to save Chesapeake Bay

Conservation group says smart meters alone not enough to save money, cut use

Study: Smart meters alone not enough to save

Researcher in Mass. says he has ID’d 7 MIAs from WWII by matching descriptions of unknowns

Mass. researcher says he has ID’d 7 MIAs from WWII

Chesapeake Bay Foundation settles suit against EPA a day before cleanup plan to be announced

Chesapeake Bay Foundation settles suit against EPA

New ‘America the Beautiful’ series of quarters launches with Hot Springs, 55 more to follow

List of new quarters being issued by US Mint

Funny how? Scientists study what’s behind guffaws and find laughter links us in primal ways

To scientists, laughter is no joke _ it’s serious

Osiris says Prochymal met goals as treatment for children with graft vs. host disease

Osiris says stem cell therapy meets study goals

At job training center, Obama announces loan guarantee to build 1st nuclear plant in decades

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Obama announces $8B in loan guarantees to build first US nuclear power plant in 30 years

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GM will make its own electric motors starting in 2013

GM to make its own electric motors

WHITE MARSH, Md. — General Motors wants smaller, lighter, more powerful electric motors for its cars and trucks, and the way to get them is to make them, a GM official said Tuesday at the plant where the new motors will be made.

Former US Sen. Charles Mathias, moderate Md. Republican who championed civil rights, dies

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Report: Biofuel industry could provide jobs, fuel and help clean the Chesapeake Bay

Report: Biofuels could help jobs, Chesapeake Bay

Environmental group files request with Maryland environmental agency for chicken farm records

Group seeks chicken farm records from Md. agency

Chesapeake Bay Foundation asks EPA head to back US Sen. Cardin’s restoration bill

Bay Foundation asks EPA head to back Cardin bill

Chesapeake Bay advocates send Obama administration tough restoration plan, say action needed

Chesapeake advocates send Obama restoration plan

Partner of Baltimore Ravens owner submits winning bid to buy Erickson Retirement Communities

Bisciotti partner to purchase retirement community

Break in 42-inch water main floods Baltimore streets; latest in series of main pipes bursting

Baltimore streets again flooded by main break

US agency probes possible gender bias at colleges, will subpoena data from 19 universities

US agency probes possible gender bias at colleges

Fermi Sees Brightest-Ever Blazar Flare

MARYLAND - Unprecedented flares from the blazar 3C 454.3 in the constellation Pegasus now make it the brightest persistent gamma-ray source in the sky. That title usually goes to the Vela pulsar in our galaxy, which is millions of times closer.

Magnetic power revealed in Gamma-Ray Burst Jet

MARYLAND - A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB).

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