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MdTA Considers Implementing Electronic Toll Booths
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Electronic toll booths are a trend all around the country and it could happen in Maryland. Andrea Fujii explains not everyone is happy with the possible change. If the Maryland...
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Metro Employees To Hand Out 400,000 Survey Cards
WASHINGTON (AP) — Metro employees will be handing out 400,000 survey cards at Metrorail stations to collect information for planning and operational purposes. The questionnaires will be distributed at...
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Sparrows Point Braces For Upcoming Steel Mill Layoffs
SPARROWS POINT, Md. (WJZ)– Nearly 2,000 Sparrows Point employees are preparing for pink slips as the plant’s owner searches for potential buyers. Weijia Jiang has more on the difficult road ahead for...
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Businesses Near Md. Casino Look Forward To Jobs
By ALEXANDER PYLES The Daily Record of Baltimore HANOVER, Md. (AP) –Doug Bither looks forward to the jobs that will be created when the 330,000-square-foot Maryland Live! casino opens adjacent to the...
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4 Accused Of Stealing Tons Of Metal On The Job
BALTIMORE (AP) — Four civilian employees at Aberdeen Proving Ground have been indicted on charged of stealing aluminum and copper from the facility. The indictments were returned Thursday against...
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Anne Arundel Co. Recreation & Parks Employees Charged With Stealing Gas
MILLERSVILLE, Md. (WJZ)– Anne Arundel County police have charged two Recreation and Parks employees for stealing county gas for use in their personal vehicles. Detectives investigated reports of county...
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Federal Workers In D.C. Area Can Take Leave Monday
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Office of Personnel Management says federal agencies in Washington will be open Monday, but employees will have the option of taking unscheduled leave or unscheduled...
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BGE Cautions Its Customers Of Imposters Posing As Utility Employees
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– BGE is asking its customers to be cautious of individuals posing as the utility’s employees and entering into their homes and businesses. BGE says the imposters may take advantage of...
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2 Treated Following Baltimore Chlorine Leak
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore public works spokesman says a chlorine leak at a water treatment plant has sent two employees to area hospitals. Spokesman Kurt Kocher says the leak occurred Monday morning...
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Employees Protest ‘Deplorable Conditions’ Inside Baltimore Courthouse
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Courthouse workers in Baltimore take to the streets, protesting what they call filthy and deplorable conditions inside their building. Derek Valcourt has more on the complaints and...
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Court Rules Baltimore City’s Pension Cuts To Firefighters And Police...
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Unconstitutional pension cuts. A federal court strikes down Baltimore City’s pension cuts for firefighters and police. It’s a ruling that could cost the city tens of millions of...
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Underage Visitors To Essex Haunted House Taken To The Hospital After Hazmat...
ESSEX, Md. (WJZ)– A chemical spill at an Essex haunted house has sent six visitors to the hospital. Baltimore County police say that medics were called to Kim’s Krypt Haunted House in the 400-block of...
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2 Wisp Employees Assaulted
McHENRY, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police say two employees of a Maryland ski resort were assaulted during an altercation at the resort, and authorities are looking for a suspect. Police say the...
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Budget Cuts Could Cost 12,000 Md. Jobs
ELKRIDGE, Md. (WJZ) — The federal government is one day closer to billions of dollars in budget cuts that will cost thousands of Maryland jobs. Political reporter Pat Warren spoke with local workers...
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Frederick Hospital To Lay Off Employees
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Frederick Memorial Hospital is laying off employees as it deals with shrinking revenues, in part because it’s admitting fewer patients. The Frederick News-Post reports that...
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Prince George’s County Budget Includes Furloughs
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker is calling for up to five unpaid furlough days to address a $152 million budget gap. Baker proposed a $2.7 billion budget...
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Newly Released IRS Video Shows Employees Dancing
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest black eye for the Internal Revenue Service, the agency provided Congress on Friday with another video featuring its employees, this one showing about a dozen of them...
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D.C. Mayor Vetoes Wage Bill Affecting Walmart
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mayor Vincent Gray vetoed a bill Thursday that would force Wal-Mart and other large retailers to pay their employees at least $12.50 an hour, calling it a “job killer” that would not...
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Restaurants Find Staff Shortage In D.C. Food Scene
WASHINGTON (AP) — The influx of new restaurants in Washington in recent years is creating a shortage of workers in the city’s food service industry. Sources say District of Columbia restaurants...
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MARC Tweaks Schedule For Furloughed Feds
WASHINGTON (AP) — With many furloughed federal workers in the nation’s capital going home early Tuesday, MARC commuter rail is adjusting its afternoon schedule. On MARC’s Brunswick line, a special...
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Shutdown Leaves Thousands In D.C. Area In Limbo
WASHINGTON (AP) — The usually bustling District of Columbia will be uniquely affected Wednesday by the first government shutdown in 17 years, with thousands of federal employees who make up the...
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Tensions Reach Boiling Point As Government Shutdown Heads Into Weekend
WASHINGTON (WJZ) — President Obama wants a temporary bill on his desk with no strings attached. That’s the message he is sending to House Republicans, as the partial government shutdown heads into the...
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Pentagon: Most Furloughed Civilians Ordered Back
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is ordering most of its approximately 400,000 furloughed civilian employees back to work. The decision announced Saturday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is based on a...
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U.S. Government Work Is Losing Cachet For Some
WASHINGTON (AP) — There was a time when being a federal employee meant a steady paycheck, great benefits and pride in serving the country. But these days, many federal workers are frustrated, anxious...
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It’s Business As Usual For Thousands Of Md. Federal Employees
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Thousands of federal employees return to work, and national parks are reopening across the country. Late Wednesday night, lawmakers ended the shutdown after 16 days with a last minute...
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Duty Calls Despite The Holiday For Many Workers Around The State
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Families celebrating Christmas should be comforted to know that essential services did not take a holiday. Pat Warren has more on the folks who were on the job. While most would...
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Police Release Surveillance Images Of Fatal Grocery Store Shooting
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The search continues for whoever shot two employees inside a neighborhood grocery store. Surveillance video captured the incident in the 500-block of S. Smallwood Street. Police are...
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Citigroup Move Could Cut 650 Western Md. Jobs
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Citigroup Inc. says it plans to close a Hagerstown unit that employs about 650 people servicing home loans that have gone into default. The unit’s workers comprise about 28...
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Man Accused Of Trying To Shoot Workers Convicted
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A man who prosecutors say fired his malfunctioning gun several times at employees in a store he was trying to rob has been convicted of attempted second-degree murder. The Anne...
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Working It Out: Obama Speaks About Minimum Wage At Maryland Costco
LANHAM, Md. (WJZ) — President Barack Obama took his State of the Union address on the road, bringing his message directly to the public. He kicked things off Wednesday morning right here in Maryland....
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Washington County Draws More Workers From Outside
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s Washington County has become more of a magnet for workers who live elsewhere over the past decade. The Herald Mail reports the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau...
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Lawsuit Against Leopold Costs Anne Arundel County Another $100K
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — John Leopold’s crass behavior cost him his job as Anne Arundel County executive. Now it’s costing the county another $100,000. Alex DeMetrick reports the payout stems from a...
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City Courthouse Employees Protest Rodent Infested And Poorly Ventilated Offices
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Courthouse employees attempt to breathe new life into the ongoing debate about conditions in the city circuit court buildings. Pat Warren reports a protest Thursday focused on health...
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3 Anne Arundel Co. Employees Disciplined After Making Noose, Joking About It
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ)—Three Anne Arundel County employees have been disciplined after a joke with racist undertones is reported to a supervisor. Rochelle Ritchie explains what happened. Officials in...
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Baltimore Landfill Workers Accused Of Theft, Taking Bribes
BALTIMORE (AP) — Five Baltimore public works employees have been accused of taking bribes and stealing scrap metal at city landfills. The Baltimore Sun reports 55-year-old William Nemec and 54-year-old...
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Group Of Baltimore City Employees Indicted In Landfill Scheme
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A multi-million dollar scheme at the Baltimore City landfill. A three year undercover FBI investigation leads to the indictment of nearly a dozen people, including some city public...
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Md. Congressman Furious Over Federal Hacking Attack
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — There is new backlash over the government employees hacking attack. Millions of workers are affected, hundreds of thousands in Maryland. The federal agency responsible for protecting...
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Federal Officials: Recent Data Breach Worse Than Expected
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Nearly 22 million Americans hacked. The FBI now says the biggest ever government breach targeted background checks full of information from federal workers, their families and even...
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5 GAO Employees Accused Of School Lunch Fraud
BALTIMORE (AP) — Five employees with the U.S. Government Accountability Office underreported their income or reported having no income at all in order to fraudulently obtain reduced-price school...
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Md. Prison Workers Claim State Withholding Overtime And Pay
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Dozens of prison employees say they are being shortchanged by the staff. It has sparked outrage and protests across Baltimore. Correctional officers are demanding justice outside the...
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