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Internet sales tax legislation offers an opportunity to level the retail playing field - WWE '13 has now been made available to the public for a month-and-a-half. Fans and gamers alike have been able to play, digest and dissect the title, compare it to previous releases and make a wish list for future releases.
- Teachers know parents mean well and they appreciate the thought, but they have their preferences. To take the angst out of gift giving, we interviewed local teachers and parents and compiled a list of the best and worst holiday gifts for teachers.
- Noel Tshiani wasn't at his wedding – he listened by phone in another country to the ceremony in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to court records – but he's just as married as if he'd stood at his bride's side. And soon, he'll be just as divorced and responsible for alimony and child support, a Maryland court has ruled.
- States are increasingly interested in applying sales taxes to Internet purchases as budgets tighten and the effects of federal cuts loom.
- For one long weekend a year, Baltimore book nerds swarm to the area around the Washington Monument for the Baltimore Book Festival.
- A new book by University of Maryland researchers reveals patterns behind the jihadist violence of Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
- Grocery shoppers can use smartphones to download deals, scan bar codes, get personalized offers
- Best Buy will close its Inner Harbor and Hunt Valley stores by May 12, the company announced Saturday.
- A Maryland House committee voted Monday to raise income taxes — but by a significantly smaller amount than either Gov. Martin O'Malley or the Senate has proposed.
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- To level the field for Maryland-based retailers, state must act boldly and go after the millions of dollars in unpaid sales taxes from online firms
- Local organic products and those without chemicals or minimal processing are coming to a store or mailbox near you
- Retired officer Lawerence E. Mize Sr. has published poems he wrote while a Baltimore police officer and others in a slim volume titled "Thoughts of You: Poems on Life, Love, and Family."
- The news that Borders was finally giving up the ghost and closing its doors after 40 years came as no real surprise. It was, according to The Wall Street Journal this week, the "first major casualty of the digital era in buying and reading books."
- Like other states, Maryland looks to closing the tax loophole that has allowed Internet companies like Amazon.com to avoid charging a sales tax
- The first comprehensive history of the state capital since 1887, historian Jane McWilliams' 479-page "Annapolis: City On The Severn" weaves a uniquely inclusive tale.
