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We talk to show hosts and executive producers about O'Malley's TV image and what he brings to the network and cable news talk show table - Bank of America warned state regulators Friday that it expects to lay off 55 employees in Baltimore County.
- Man and woman released on bail after trying to use fake credit cards to make Wawa purchases
- Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. announced an agreement Thursday to buy six television stations from Kansas City, Mo.-based Newport Television for $412.5 million.
- President Obama is wrong when he credits government for helping entrepreneurs
- A 50-year-old District of Columbia man was sentenced to more than three years in prison Wednesday for his role in a 2010 bank fraud scheme that led to the theft of almost $1.4 million from the Baltimore Housing Authority, prosecutors said.
- The city's effort to recover hundreds of millions in losses stemming from a rate-rigging scheme by the world's largest banks is a first step toward restoring confidence in the financial markets
- Last week two lawsuits led by the city against banks — one that came to an end, another that's gaining speed — raised City Hall's global profile as an aggressive watchdog for financial companies' misdeeds.
- Bruce P. Wilson, former president of Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co., who earlier had been president of the old Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad, died July 5 from complications of a stroke at Nubbin Ridge, his Green Spring Valley home, where he had lived for more than 50 years. He was 92.
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- Libor affair shows banks have been betraying consumers' trust on a massive scale
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- You're likely part of the largest financial scandal in the world today if you have adjustable rate mortgage or a private student loan.
- Angela Rosenberg, a math teacher at Edgewood High School is the recipient of the first annual Golden Apple $1,000 Scholarship, as awarded by Freedom Federal Credit Union
- SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro is meeting stiff resistance to an attempt to further regulate money market funds.
- New Web tool grades banks, large and small, on their lending to small businesses.
- The owner of a Frankford liquor store was sentenced to 18 months in prison and six months of subsequent home detention on Monday for tax evasion after he understated his store's earnings by more than $1.5 million and structured bank deposits in an attempt to avoid alerting the IRS to his transactions, according to prosecutors.
- Bill passes requiring appraisal for purchase of more than $100,000
- All eyes will be on the Federal Reserve at its meeting next week, but the body can't do much to save us from slow growth and the risk of another recession.
- Two Baltimore-area banks have changed their charters to be regulated by the state rather than the federal government.
- The Wisconsin recall and the presidential campaign have become playgrounds for billionaires.
- U.S. PIRG reports on high debit card fees for college students
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- From payday lenders to incarceration fees, society makes the impoverished pay for being poor
- Maryland to launch program to stimulate small businesses lending
- Identity theft is a growing problem with tax returns, and taxpayers can spend more than a year trying to clear up the mess
- William Francis Bender Jr., a computer systems and data processing executive, died Tuesday of heart failure at St. Agnes Hospital. He was 69.
- The share of Maryland homeowners newly behind on mortgage payments hit its lowest level in four years during early 2012.
- Stephanie Talbott recently joined Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Harford County regional office sales force
- Prepaid debit cards are everywhere these days — and so are their fees.
- The Baltimore region saw a big gain in average home sale prices in April thanks to a shrunken foreclosure supply.
- A Cecil County man is charged in connection with several bank robberies.
- Businesses in China and India, the emerging markets that Gov. Martin O'Malley has been trawling for trade relationships, are beginning to bite.
- Finally, a spotlight will be shone on a widespread business practice that forces unhappy customers to settle disputes through binding arbitration rather than by telling their story in court.
- Congress should maintain limits of credit union business loans
- The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship celebrates a decade of making a difference in Baltimore schools with a gala Wednesday at Loyola University.
- Maryland comptroller dons fedora, whip for publication's cover shot
- Regarding the proposal for Harford County to set up a business loan fund: Is it really a good idea for those of us who pay taxes to the county and state to allow these respective governments to get into the business of making high risk loans to businesses?
- So the tax deadline is here and you don't have the money to pay the bill. You might have more options than you know — from the Internal Revenue Service.
- A developer working to transform vacant, city-owned properties in a North Baltimore neighborhood south of Charles Village into hundreds of new and rehabbed homes got city design approval Thursday for 69 new apartments that will get under way this fall.
- The Harford County Education Association (HCEA) and Freedom Federal Credit Union have announced that HCEA has endorsed Freedom as a financial services and benefits provider for its 2,070 members, including the county's public school teachers and employees
- A federal judge has ordered the nation's five largest mortgage servicers to provide nearly $1 billion in aid to Maryland homeowners as part of $25 billion settlement.
- Economic director says council bill would help attract business
- A Bulgarian citizen who was involved in an international conspiracy to skim debit and credit card information from bank and other ATMs, including at least one in Bel Air early last year, was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison by a judge in Baltimore Federal District Court Friday.
- Freedom Federal Credit Union has named Sue Manning, a longtime Harford County resident, a business development specialist
- Banker John Delaney knew that Maryland's ruling Democrats had someone else in mind to become the state's next 6th District congressman.
- More and more Howard County residents are renting out their homes amid the slumped housing market, sometimes leaving a burden of unpaid fees to the home or condo owners association.
