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Ten months after the national mortgage settlement was hailed as a major step in reforming a broken system, some homeowners are getting aid — but some housing advocates say the overall results are not what they'd hoped.

Several developers have announced plans in the last few days to convert downtown commercial buildings into market-rate apartments, giving new life to buildings that were being underutilized.

Maryland has dozens of small community banks, now under growing pressure to get bigger

Train lovers in Harford County who have grown used to stopping by the Forest Hill Station for all their model train needs might soon have to look elsewhere to buy their intricate track pieces or get a broken-down caboose examined.

CFG Community Bank laid off six employees last week in its operations and branch network, the Baltimore-based bank said.

Rather than risk losing his motorcycle, a Havre de Grace man recently sold his home in order to make back child support payments, according to the Harford County State's Attorney's Office.

The Baltimore City Council on Monday granted preliminary approval to more than $20 million in tax breaks for the long-stalled "Superblock" development.

A 25-year-old Baltimore man who pleaded guilty to murder-for-hire and witness-murder conspiracy charges this year in the 2011 killing of a 19-year-old associate was sentenced Monday to 35 years behind bars, plus five years of supervised release, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney's office.

Cocaine secreted in strawberries and a hefty take for the feds

A Maryland woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling more than $143,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where she worked as a human resources analyst, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney's office.

Ten Maryland banks remain in TARP while Treasury begins to wind down the program

Two small thrifts founded many decades ago to cater to the Baltimore's immigrant population could merge as early as the end of this month following approval Monday by a federal regulator.

The city of Annapolis delivered Saturday on its promise to save face in its annual rivalry with Eastport, breaking a tie to win a match billed as the Slaughter Across the Water

Rodney G. Stieff, former chairman of the board and CEO of Kirk-Stieff Co., which was the oldest silversmith firm in the country, died Tuesday of kidney cancer.

A 41-year-old Washington woman was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison for her role in conspiring to steal $1.4 million from the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, prosecutors said.

The Annapolis waterfront house with a $1.77 million price tag was the second most expensive property sold in the Baltimore region in September.

Freedom Federal Credit Union recognizes 'Core Values' award recipient

Tavon Davis faces 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder conspiracy charges, and according to court filings he told a friend that his decision to order the killing made him the "schmuck of the year."

The owner-operator of a cosmetics company in Beltsville pleaded guilty Thursday to income tax evasion, prosecutors said.

The five victims of the fire that destroyed a northeast Baltimore rowhome Thursday will be memorialized together in a service Thursday.

Baltimore Book Festival offers author talks, book signings, readings, panel discussions

Baltimore's spending panel agreed Wednesday to sell the historic Senator Theatre at a $310,000 loss — over the objections of the city's comptroller.

Senator Theatre's ownership is being transferred from Baltimore's ownership to that of the current operators.

Zell C. Hurwitz, a banker, investor and philanthropist, died Thursday of respiratory failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 82.

Rudolph S. Gebhardt, who went from being a circus performer to Maryland National banker, died Sept. 10 from a blood clot at his Clearwater, Fla., home. He was 86.

Bank of America said Wednesday that an executive with 31 years at the company will step up as president of the institution's Baltimore and Maryland markets.

Bank of America patents augmented reality

Gregory H. Barnhill, a career investment banker who embraced and promoted civic projects and charities, ended his life Friday evening in Baltimore County. He was 59 and lived in Stevenson.

The Bel Air town commissioners reviewed complaints from residents in the northern end of town concerning the quality of their drinking water

Art Modell, an entrepreneurial owner with the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns who restored a National Football League franchise to Baltimore in 1996 and delivered a Super Bowl championship four years later, has died at 87 at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley offered pointed criticism of Republicans in an address to the Democratic convention on Tuesday, arguing that President Barack Obama is best suited to right the U.S. economy while GOP nominee Mitt Romney's policies would only move the nation backward.

Credit card issuers market additional services that consumers don't need

New billboards are among the aggressive tactics Maryland is deploying following a blistering audit last year that found the agency failed to use all available resources to collect the payments.

Tropical storm threatens to deny voters an opportunity to hear Mitt Romney's pitch

As part of a little-known effort, congressional staffers across the country have been calling banks relentlessly to bargain for help for homeowners.

Debit cards are a convenient way for students to receive financial aid, but students can find their aid eaten up by fees.

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The Baltimore metro region had the best July in six years for contracts signed to buy homes, according to data released Friday by an affiliate of the region's multiple listing service.

Our own greed is the cause of the world's problems, not Barack Obama.

The rate of new foreclosure filings in Maryland far exceeded any other state's this spring, a spike caused in part by legal settlements that unleashed a flood of new cases.

Community bankers give free gas to first 200 drivers

A Georgia couple is charged with stealing more than $800,000 from a family member, who is a Bel Air resident.

Legg Mason reports loss following costs related to restructuring its debt.

The Aegis police blotter lists the most recent arrests, crimes and other police reports.

The former chief executive of Severna Park-based Wings to Go pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud for embezzling more than $885,000 from the franchise company to pay prostitutes in Maryland and three Texas women for telephone sex.