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A coalition of religious leaders in Northwest Baltimore has secured $15,000 in slots funding to build a network of private surveillance cameras with the help of Amazon’s Ring

By Kevin Rector

Aug 21, 2019

Lauren White, originally from Baltimore City, is a contender for an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series.

Amazon will hire more than 100 workers for its distribution center in North East.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Jun 26, 2019

Experts predict that if Baltimore does not focus on readying workers for other employment, automation could bring a reckoning like manufacturing's downfall.

By Yvonne Wenger

May 30, 2019

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On the morning of July 2, 2012, in the most dangerous warzone in the world, Lieutenant Clint Lorance took command of his small band of American paratroopers at the spearhead of the American War in Afghanistan. Intelligence reports that morning warned of a Taliban ambush against Lorance's platoon. Fifteen minutes into their patrol, three military-age Afghan males crowded on a motorcycle and sped aggressively down a Taliban-controlled dirt road toward Lorance's men. Three weeks earlier, outside the massive American Kandahar Airfield, Taliban terrorists struck by motorcycle, riding into a crowded area, detonating body-bombs and killing twenty-two people. Sixty-three days before ...

Amazon marked the official opening of the state-of-the-art fulfillment center on the site of the former Sparrows Point steel mill in eastern Baltimore County, where it employs 2,000 as well as a fleet of robots.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Mar 19, 2019

In its flawed HQ2 decision, Amazon considered every factor but this - whether it was really wanted by local residents.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday that he's talked with Amazon following the company's decision to back out of a proposed secondary headquarters in New York City.

By Pamela Wood

Feb 14, 2019

After a report that Amazon was rethinking its plan to locate a new headquarters in New York City, the developers of Port Covington in South Baltimore brushed off their rejected proposal to the online retailing giant.

By Meredith Cohn

Feb 8, 2019

Greetings & Readings, a retail fixture in the Baltimore area for 49 years, is closing in January, blaming sales declines amid Internet competition.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Dec 27, 2018

Less than a week after Amazon ended Whole Foods’ partnership with Instacart, the grocery delivery service announced an expanded partnership Wednesday with Giant Food in Baltimore.

Amazon is resuming limited Prime Now service in the Baltimore area, according to an email sent to customers Wednesday.

By Christina Tkacik

Dec 18, 2018

Find the holiday shipping deadlines for the U.S. Postal Service, Amazon, FedEx and UPS.

By Christina Tkacik

Dec 13, 2018

Blood and platelet donations typically drop over the holiday season and the American Red Cross issued an urgent call for donors.

Whether you voted to drain the swamp or ride the blue wave on Nov. 6, you could be sure that one party would continue to be a winner.

Maryland may not have HQ2 but it might convince Amazon to help schools with science and math.

Baltimoreans feeling dejected about the Amazon situation can console themselves with the knowledge that rent in our city costs about half what it does in Arlington County, Va.

By Christina Tkacik

Nov 13, 2018

Half of Amazon's new headquarters will be stationed in Northern Virginia. Here's how it will affect Maryland and the Greater Baltimore area.

By Sarah Meehan

Nov 13, 2018

At first glance, Maryland's loss of HQ2 may prove to be something of a victory.

Second man found dead Saturday morning in partial building collapse at Southeast Baltimore Amazon warehouse, a fire department spokesman said.

More than 4,000 warehouse workers will be hired in the Baltimore area for warehouse jobs at Kohl's in Edgewood and Amazon in North East in Cecil County.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Oct 26, 2018

Matthew Weiner's "The Romanoffs" had the artistic freedom of "House of Cards" — but it doesn't come close to it in execution.

By David Zurawik

Oct 10, 2018

Amazon is now offering food delivery from Whole Foods in the Annapolis area.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Oct 10, 2018

Amazon’s move to boost its U.S. workers’ minimum wage to $15 per hour next month could put pressure on large retailers and other employers to follow with similar increases, especially amid a tight labor market where job openings often outnumber applicants.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Oct 2, 2018

Amazon's decision to adopt $15 minimum wage is a game changer.

A Baltimore teacher received school supplies for her students as part of the #10featuredteachers Instagram campaign.

By Sarah Meehan

Sep 27, 2018

Less than a decade ago, pundits were decrying the imminent death of brick-and-mortar book bins. But not only did independent bookstores locally and nationally refuse to go away, they began rebounding. Here's how they did it.

By Mary Carole McCauley

Aug 30, 2018

By the time you order holiday gifts from Amazon, they could be delivered from the company’s newest fulfillment center in eastern Baltimore County.

By Pamela Wood

Aug 21, 2018

How can we convince our business leaders, whose talent and wealth could do so much good, to embrace their civic responsibility? With American society and much of the world experiencing record levels of wealth inequality, this is one of the most important ethical challenges of our time.

Foreign policy in the Trump administration isn't about U.S. interests, says Robert Reich, it's about Mr. Trump's interests.

County executives from Howard, Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties came together on Thursday morning to discuss the economic future of their region, with a tone of collaboration and support for one another.

By Kate Magill

Apr 26, 2018

The Seattle company said Tuesday that it has begun delivering packages in 37 cities — including Baltimore — to Prime members who own newer General Motors or Volvo vehicles.

Officials from Amazon.com toured sites in Washington, Montgomery County and northern Virginia last week — the latest sign that the tech giant is seriously considering adding a second headquarters.

Baltimore is out of the running for Amazon’s second headquarters, the company announced Thursday. However, Maryland’s Montgomery County is among the 20 finalists.

By Pamela Wood

Jan 18, 2018

Officials react to the news that Baltimore is not one of the 20 finalists for Amazon's second headquarters — but Montgomery County is still in the running.

Holly Sullivan, an Amazon executive involved in the search for the company's second headquarters, once led Montgomery County's economic development group. Montgomery County was one of the 20 locations named as finalists.

By Doug Donovan

Jan 18, 2018

Amazon's rejection means Baltimore is still the largest American city without a Fortune 500 company, and it’s time our leadership address the root causes: mind-numbing statistics on the murder rate; distrust among residents and police; schools that can't provide heat, air conditioning or water.

Whether it was because of crime, shoddy public transit or a simple preference for the Nats over the O's, Baltimore's loss in the Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes is a disappointment for the city — and the e-commerce giant.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration will submit legislation in the next few weeks to pass a $5 billion incentive package for Amazon HQ2, his spokesman Doug Mayer said.

By Erin Cox

Jan 18, 2018

Baltimore, coming off a rash of bad news, now gets left off Amazon's list of 20 finalists for its second headquarters. Is there a connection?

By Jean Marbella

Jan 18, 2018

The Seattle-based e-commerce giant said it received 238 bids from across North America — including several from Maryland. Here's who made the cut.

Amazon released a narrowed list of candidates Thursday for its HQ2, and Maryland still has a chance.

By Sean Welsh

Jan 18, 2018

The final budget proposal of Republican Gov. Larry Hogan's term reduces expected aid to Baltimore, sets aside $10 million to lure Amazon's new headquarters to the state and gives state workers a small raise.

By Erin Cox

Jan 17, 2018

Michael Wolff's book about the Trump White house is entertaining; too bad it's not always true, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

Rising crime, unheated schools and a woman in a hospital gown being dumped at a bus stop on a freezing night: At a time when Baltimore is competing with more than 200 cities for Amazon's second headquarters, the last thing the city needed was for such images to go viral.

By Jean Marbella

Jan 12, 2018

Baltimore’s biggest business names experienced a busy year in 2017 — from Under Armour and McCormick & Co. to Sinclair Broadcast Group.

For more than 30 years, giving your money to Bill Miller at Legg Mason was one of the most reliable ways to turn a profit. He beat the returns on the benchmark

City officials poured resources into trying to lure Amazon's planned second headquarters to Baltimore. Mayor Catherine E. Pugh held a ceremony to mark the sending of the city's pitch to the retailer. You might think, then, that the proposal would be a public document. You'd be wrong.

By Ian Duncan

Nov 2, 2017

Opened with a Talking Heads reference and sealed with a kiss, Baltimore's bid for Amazon's second national headquarters was sent on its way yesterday in a