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Mid-Atlantic residents had the most credit card complaints per capita, with Maryland ranked overall in the U.S. as the state with the third highest number of complaints, according to a study released Wednesday.

Small ceremony in Ellicott City made for an intimate event

Banks and other financial firms tugged the stock market slightly lower Thursday as a mixed batch of economic reports and earnings results gave investors little reason to push the market up.

Stifel Financial Corp said it would buy asset manager Legg Mason Inc's investment advisory unit to expand its wealth management business.

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.

A foreclosure auction of Westport property connected to developer Patrick Turner's ambitious, 42-acre waterfront plan was canceled Friday for a second time.

U.S. bankruptcy judge Robert Gordon Tuesday denied a bid for more time sought by Westport developer Patrick Turner, who has been trying for a decade to turn an empty piece of Baltimore's western waterfront into a high-end, mixed use community.

A U.S. bankruptcy court is scheduled to decide Tuesday whether to grant more time to developer Patrick Turner, who has tried for 10 years to transform a piece of the Westport waterfront from grassy marsh to a bustling downtown neighborhood.

According to Laurel police, there have been a total of 11 reported bank robberies and attempted robberies in the city since January 2011. Anne Arundel County police have reported an additional three bank robberies have occurred in the Laurel-area of that county.

Maryland has allowed many of the very largest multi-state, multi-national corporations operating here to use a tax avoidance scheme resulting in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in state corporate taxes and, sadly, placing Maryland-only businesses at a distinct competitive disadvantage.

Maryland will receive about $86 million for principal reduction, the sixth-highest amount, or 4.3 percent of the relief available, according to Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler. There are also 2,461 loans eligible for cash payments, with disbursements expected to be more than $1,000 each.

Corporate Office Properties L.P., the operating partnership of Columbia-based Corporate Office Properties Trust, will issue $250 million on senior unsecured notes.

Legg Mason Inc. announced Wednesday it would be shutting down its London-based emerging markets boutique and returning money to investors.

Legg Mason Inc. reported better-than-expected earnings Thursday and its first quarter in years with more money flowing into its mutual funds than being withdrawn.

The Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust fund is doing something not seen in years — beating the stock market.

It's hard to get upset about the government snooping on us when half of corporate America is already doing it.

Checks totaling more than $15 million will be sent beginning next week to more than 10,000 Maryland mortgage borrowers, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced Wednesday.

Marylanders received more than $1.3 billion in relief from the National Mortgage Settlement during a 12-month period, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced Tuesday.

About 900 McCormick & Co. investors packed into a Hunt Valley ballroom Wednesday to hear about the company's performance, applaud its stock price gains and see how it is marketing its spices, recipe mixes and other goods worldwide.

Legg Mason Inc. might eliminate some of its less popular funds, while at the same time try to fill gaps in its investment offerings, the chief financial officer of the Baltimore-based money manager said Tuesday.

Businessman and competitive sailor Frank Savage will discuss and sign his autobiography, The Savage Way, at Baltimore maritime museum.

The developers of the stalled Westport Waterfront filed a $225 million suit in bankruptcy court Wednesday alleging that out-of-state financiers posed as potential investors in the project and then conspired with others to upend development plans.

The company affiliated with developer Patrick Turner that was planning to redevelop the waterfront of the Westport neighborhood in southwest Baltimore has filed for bankruptcy.

Harford County officials raised nearly $115 million through two bond sales Tuesday to finance existing and new capital projects and to pay off previous bond issues.

Legg Mason names a new CEO to turn around the struggling Baltimore-based money manager

Legg Mason Inc. reported Friday that it lost $453.9 million in the third quarter due to a previously announced noncash charge of $734 million related to the re-evaluation of certain assets.

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.

Robert Reich says politicians of both parties want to avoid a repeat of a "too big to fail" scenario

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.

For the last dozen years, Vince Talbert has had his head down focused on one thing: Bill Me Later.

Mary Love Mezzanotte, a registered nurse who later became a lawyer, died Thursday of liver cancer at her West Friendship home. She was 56.

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.

Citigroup announced layoffs, little impact for Maryland,

The news that Patrick Turner's Westport Waterfront development is facing foreclosure has been taken in stride by Westport residents and city officials, who are not pegging all their expectations for the South Baltimore community on the long-stalled Turner project.

Citigroup Global Markets Realty Corp. has filed a foreclosure case against the company that was planning to develop the waterfront in the Westport community of Baltimore.

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

Not even being arrested on federal fraud charges and placed under strict house arrest could keep Amiee Arora from cooking up new schemes.

Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill could face a Supreme Court test similar to the Affordable Care Act

On Tuesday, five of the nation¿s largest mortgage servicers became obligated to follow 304 ¿servicing standards¿ laid out in a national mortgage settlement earlier this year.

Q&A with Baltimore lawyer Joel Sher, who is pursuing major mortgage-related actions against banks.

Baltimore-based Legg Mason is losing a CEO, but what's next?

Nearly 3,000 Maryland homeowners received almost $225 million in relief between the beginning of March until the end of June from the national settlement with five mortgage servicers, the state's attorney general announced Wednesday.

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