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Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed a gun-control measure into law that bans new sales of assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines, and sets new permit requirements for handgun owners.
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Margaret George, a retired widow raising her three young grandchildren in a trailer in Whispering Ranch, Arizona, says her family wouldn’t survive without federal help to pay for electricity.
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Star Scientific Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jonnie Williams treated Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell to a $2,268 vacation getaway.
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Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell said his administration didn’t give special treatment to Star Scientific Inc., a nutritional supplement company led by a friend and campaign contributor.
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Kelly Blair, a banker from the Baltimore suburbs, spends hundreds of dollars online every year buying gifts and household supplies like pet food and shampoo. She doesn’t check to see whether she owes sales tax -- though her home state of Maryland says that she should.
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Paul Kevin Curtis played the young Elvis at an annual Tupelo festival honoring the Mississippi city’s most famous son and strummed his guitar at night outside his home in a subsidized housing project an hour to the north.
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A Mississippi man was charged with threatening to kill or injure President Barack Obama and a U.S. senator by mailing them letters containing ricin, a deadly poison with no known antidote.
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Sugar Land, Texas, plans to pump $50 million into new parks around the city of 85,000, just the kind of project President Barack Obama wants to revitalize the U.S. economy by spurring investment in aging infrastructure.
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Maryland lawmakers passed a ban on sales of assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, a step sought by Governor Martin O’Malley in response to the December school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Maryland will ban dozens of assault- style weapons and impose new licensing requirements on handgun owners under a bill that would make it the latest state to impose new limits after the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
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