Rail shutdown preventable
Grant Reeside (pictured) prepares new wheel sets for a light rail car. The current shutdown of half of Baltimore's light rail line likely could have been prevented had Maryland Transit Administration engineers decided in 2000 to spend about $4 million on an electronic system designed to prevent trains from sliding on slippery tracks, according to a top MTA official.
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Maryland
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Md. bull vies for best in U.S.
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Suspect in Howard County bank robbery captured
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Liquor board revokes license of Park Heights store owner
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Police ID motorcyclist who died after crashing into car
Sports
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C. Izturis appears at top of Orioles' wish list at short
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Mike Preston: After Giants debacle, Ravens making run at redemption
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Nation
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Official: Geithner is like Obama nominee for Treasury Secretary
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Sasha, Malia Obama will attend Sidwell Friends School in D.C.
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World
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Bush effigy burned in Baghdad protest
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U.S. judge orders 5 detainees freed
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'Twilight' action has no fangs
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Z on TV: Dupre interview pushes '20/20' toward tabloid TV
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Health & Wellness
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Md. health officials track flu with e-mail queries
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Routine HIV testing not performed, forum says
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BlackBerry maker launches counterattack against iPhone
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Maryland's jobless rate rises to 5%
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Southwest Airlines looks to give up some BWI gates
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America should invest in brighter future to help meet challenges of worsening economy
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Hopkins' choice to oust Confederate commemorators is right call
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Maryland's law on open meetings needs to be strengthened
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Light rail's problems didn't begin with dead leaves falling on track
Letters to the Editor
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Hopkins isn't where gun tracking is needed
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Democracy demands that some firms fail
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Take light rail cars back to the future?
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Mass. woman 1 cent debt to city paid by former city councilor she does not know
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Western Ky. inmate who escaped from jail returns hours later, asking to be let back in
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Fla. man faces charge after allegedly hitting his girlfriend with a sandwich in the car
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