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Maryland moved one step closer to a possible wind farm off Ocean City with a federal agency's announcement Monday that it is looking for companies interested in erecting and operating turbines on the outer Continental Shelf, along the state's slice of the Atlantic Coast.

In an effort to attract more businesses and people to the city's downtown district, the Laurel City Council is fielding applications for $30,000 in grant funding.

Environmental groups, the military and government organizations have teamed to restore several parcels of shoreline in an effort to return the Potomac River to its natural state.

For some, the new federal health care and insurance reform law may have been little more than campaign fodder in Tuesday's elections. But for dozens of small bioscience companies in Maryland, the legislation meant millions of dollars in research and development grants this week.

A newly released report from the Maryland Department of Human Resources shows progress in child welfare reform. While only three jurisdictions out of 23 counties and Baltimore City reached their goals, improvements were found across the state.

While Maryland scores relatively poorly in some categories on taxes, it does well enough on numerous other criteria to rank as the 14th most attractive state nationally for businesses, according to a bank economist.

Constellation Energy settled its dispute with French utility giant Electricite de France on Tuesday, selling its half of a joint venture to develop new nuclear power plants and dropping its threat to exercise an option to force EDF to buy a dozen aging fossil fuel plants.

There are an increasing number of job opportunities in health care as the industry moves to digitize health records and implement the federal health care reform legislation, but there arent enough qualified candidates.