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Bids taken on 25 custom-painted Adirondack chairs throughout Frederick Road Fridays - The Korean War is often known as the "forgotten war," but local veterans of the bloody three-year-conflict on the Korean Peninsula will be sharing their memories with Harford County residents this weekend, 60 years after the guns were silenced.
- Marylanders are among the biggest complainers to the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
- In less than one week, three bank acquisitions, including the parent of Baltimore County Savings Bank, have been announced in the Mid-Atlantic region.
- Baltimore County Savings Bank celebrated joining Downtown Bel Air May 18 with the grand opening event of a new Bel Air branch
- F.N.B. to acquire parent of Baltimore County Savings Bank in $79 million deal
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- Proposed $107 million tax break for Harbor Point is a bad deal for Baltimore
- Edward Joseph Snowden, the government contractor who revealed the National Security Agency's massive telephone- and Internet-surveillance program, has left few public clues about his life growing up in Crofton and Ellicott City
- Bank of America picks up admission tab at American Visionary Art Museum
- Shannon Esposito, a biomedical sciences lead teacher at Bel Air High School, is the winner of the 2013 Annual Golden Apple Plus Education $1,000 Award, Freedom Federal Credit Union announced
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- In the black market of Maryland's prisons and jails, where the right price can secure cellphones and drugs, transactions unfold through a complex system of currency. It uses 14-digit codes, prepaid debit cards and text messages.
- Harford police blotter
- The Great Gourmet is Kimberly Scott's way of introducing the world to Maryland Seafood. Her Eastern Shore company sells crab cakes, oysters and clams to the wholesale and retail markets.
- A group of Korean War veterans presented a $1,000 donation to the Harford County Public Library Thursday in an effort to support library programs to commemorate this year's 60th anniversary of the end of the war.
- Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. is continuing a push into new markets across the U.S. with an announcement Thursday that it plans to acquire Fisher Communications Inc. in a $373.3 million deal.
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- Municipal Employees Credit Union of Baltimore Inc. announced Thursday that it agreed to acquire Advance Bank, another Baltimore-based institution.
- We should be exploring creative, non-tax ideas for transportation funding.
- Because of the increasing role of the web in home buying and selling, the variety of ways for buyers and sellers to enter the market have never been greater.
- Debtors' prison, where people are incarcerated for owing money, is something out of a Charles Dickens' novel or another century.
- HSBC may be 'too big to jail,' but it doesn't deserve to be chartered here
- A former vice president of Hebron Savings Bank in Wicomico County was sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzlement and ordered to pay $456,665 in restitution, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
- Mayo A. Shattuck III, who helped sell two Baltimore institutions to out-of-state concerns and ran the region's energy firm for a volatile decade, has retired from the parent company of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.
- Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. plans to buy 18 television stations owned by Barrington Broadcasting Group for $370 million.
- Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. has agreed to buy four television stations owned by Cox Media Group for $99 million, the latest deal for Sinclair in a string of acquisitions over the past year and a half.
- Peace Corps Week is coming up Feb. 24 to March 2. We profile three past Peace Corp volunteers from Roland Park.
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- James Gabriel Thompson, a retired savings and loan association president, died of cerebral vascular disease Jan. 29 at Oak Crest Village. The former Guilford resident was 84.
- Real estate agent Dean Cottrill discusses what it's like to manage more than two dozen sales and rental offices in Maryland and Delaware and his real estate market forecast for 2013.
- Henry S. Baker Jr., a retired banker and community leader, died Saturday from complications of a tumor at Keswick Multi-Care Center. The longtime Monkton resident was 86.
- Meghan Rafferty, assistant branch manager of its Park Avenue branch in Bel Air, is the winner of Freedom Federal Credit Union's quarterly "Core Value Award," which recognizes Freedom employees who continuously demonstrate support of Freedom's unique core values established as a vision and guidance for all employees in their commitment to serve Freedom members, fellow employees and the Harford County community.
- The state will begin this month sending all child support payments electronically, a move the Maryland Department of Human Resources said Wednesday will save 1.4 million.
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- Years later, the big winners in Tribune Co.'s Chapter 11 case are the investment firms that profit from the boom-and-bust cycles of Wall Street.
- Baltimore County Savings Bank this week announced plans to relocate its current Bel Air branch location from 563 Baltimore Pike to 203 N. Main St.
- In summer 2007, a complicated deal to buy Tribune Co. and take it private reflected all the dangers of an easy-money era when caution was pushed aside.
- Consumer advocates welcomed a federal effort aiming to prevent predatory mortgage lending at a town hall in Baltimore on Thursday, but expressed worries that new rules would not halt discrimination.
- Mental health and addiction treatment center Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection because it owes more than $5.5 million to creditors and estimates its assets are less than $500,000, according to federal court filings.
- The contemporary home overlooking Weems Creek in Annapolis was packed with custom touches thanks to its former owner, a builder
- A Baltimore City Community College employee has been indicted on allegations that she directed student tuition payments into her personal bank account, the city prosecutor's office announced Thursday.
- Peter Morici says the Fed's efforts to reduce the deficit and keep interest rates low will end badly
