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- The backpacks will go to students at Armistead Gardens Elementary/Middle School and Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy, as well as a new welcome center for immigrant and other new pupils.
- A letter by Frank Bramble expressing support for Sen. Frank Kelly, who recently stepped down from the University of Maryland Medical System board amid controversy over how the system does business with board members, shows the incestuous nature of corporate boards.
- Southern regional banks BB&T and SunTrust combine in an all-stock deal valued at about $66 billion, creating nation's 6th largest bank and 3rd largest in Baltimore.
- Small business lending plummeted over nearly a decade in Baltimore, with the number of transactions falling by half and smaller sized loans offered.
- From agriculture and manufacturing to military contracting and natural gas production, Maryland's economy is diverse.
- Thanks to its programs, three families were welcomed home for the holidays – two through the Homeownership Program, and one through the Repair Program.
- Deutsche Bank has reached a $95 million settlement with Maryland stemming from the housing crisis that will funnel $80 million to provide new mortgages or mortgage relief to eligible consumers as well as help finance affordable housing.
- In 2010, Joann Rodriguez suffered a health crisis precipitated by her multiple sclerosis. She could no longer keep her job with the AARP, but it took her two years before she received any disability benefits. After draining all of her retirement savings, she finally fell behind on her mortgage. Three weeks ago, Joann came home to find a note taped to her front door. It said that she has until March 28th to vacate her home. It is being foreclosed on by a Wall Street vulture
- Habitat for Humanity Susquehanna has teamed up with volunteers from Bank of America and Harford Technical High School to begin building a new home. Students planned lessons and became the teachers during Bank of America's recent third Global Build.
- The city-owned parcel along Pratt Street is primarily occupied by a fountain
- Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has upended the Democratic Party nomination process in many ways, not the least of which is his populist rhetoric regarding Wall Street and the nation's banking system. Unfortunately adoption of his ideas and recommendations would have disastrous consequences for the U.S. economy and the global financial system.
- There is a new radio station here in town called the Bloomberg Radio, and you can get it on a radio via Frequency Modulation at 99.1.
- Two protesters rappelled from the upper deck of Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte during Monday night's game between the Carolina Panthers and Indianapolis Colts — the latest action in a bitter campaign waged against a proposed natural gas export terminal and liquefaction plant in Southern Maryland.
- According to county officials, the revitalization of downtown Columbia is not just about adding mouth-watering restaurants, high-end retail and arguably the nation's most coveted grocer. It's also about putting in the work and making downtown a thriving employment center.
- Bank of America Charitable Foundation offers an annual Student Leaders Program to a select group of high school upperclassmen, including Omar Delen, a rising senior at Marriotts Ridge High School,
- David S. Ewell, a retired banker, who was a Civil War buff, died July 8 of lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 76.
- The firm hired by Fannie Mae to maintain vacant, foreclosed properties in the Baltimore area systematically neglects homes in non-white neighborhoods, according to a discrimination complaint filed Tuesday with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- For six weeks during the summer of 1972 I was an umpire. I called Little League baseball and men's fast pitch softball games for teams in Baltimore County. Most of the other umpires were grown men, and I have vivid memories of drowning in my oversized mask and chest protector. Whether it was an easy game to call or a nail-biter, I would not trade the experience for anything. I was employed, learning the fundamentals of managing the money I was making and gaining experience handling challenging
- Meet Cyndi Hutchins, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's director of financial gerontology – one of the country's first in such a position at a financial management firm.
- Believe me, I didn't go looking in my Sunday morning TV viewing for more evidence of what a journalistically bankrupt operation NBC News had become.
- The roofs in the new development in Southeast Baltimore aren't all finished, and city officials aren't quite sure what to call it, but they turned out in force on Wednesday to celebrate the first apartments completed on land that once held the sprawling O'Donnell Heights public housing complex.
- At Sunday's Art Outside event, local artists and crafters will gather at Druid Hill Park in a revival of sorts of the city's free al-fresco community art festivals of the 1950s and 1960s.
- Executive-produced by Spike Lee, Evolution of a Criminal is an autobiographical documentary laced with nail-biting, Michael Mann-style recreations of the crime and equally tense interviews with family, the two friends who helped Monroe commit the robbery, and a few of the innocents in the bank when it occurred.
- Atlantic Realty Companies, which acquired the Alameda Marketplace for $11.3 million, said it may locate a new fitness center on an unused portion of the 10.9-acre site.
- 1st Mariner's founder launched the Baltimore bank as an alternative to big, faceless, out-of-state institutions at a time when banks based somewhere else had rapidly gobbled up 30 percent of the Maryland market. Now out-of-state banks control 80 percent of the pie. But that change hasn't dampened the enthusiasm 1st Mariner's new buyers feel for the institution.
- Anthropologie, which sells accessories, gifts and home decor in addition to clothing, is going to open a 9,142 square-foot store; Talbots, a women's classic apparel and accessories retailer, will move into a 10,980 square-foot space.
- In recent years, Maryland has seen many local banks acquired by out-of-state rivals. A decade ago, the state had 139 banks based here, with 20 of them separately chartered affiliates of Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co., according to the Maryland Bankers Association.
- John C. Rusnak, the former Allfirst Financial Inc. currency trader convicted of one of the biggest bank frauds in history, knows about second chances. He hired the applicant, Noah Shefrin, who stayed clean and has since moved up to become the general manager of the Glen Burnie ZIPS. So began Rusnak's mission of hiring others who've made mistakes.
- Daniel "Rocky" Hyde, a former tavern owner and a retired Maryland State Lottery employee, died of heart failure Wednesday at Franklin Square Medical Center. The Rosedale resident was 65.
- Bank America cardholders get free admission to American Visionary Art Museum this weekend
- Tya Courtney, who grew up in foster care, bought her first home through a program offered by Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake.