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Ben Jealous, the Democratic candidate for governor, says Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is the first governor in decades to let a Fortune 500 company leave Maryland.

Maryland-based companies would get a tax break under legislation that was approved by the General Assembly this week.

Amazon's rejection means Baltimore is still the largest American city without a Fortune 500 company, and it’s time our leadership address the root causes: mind-numbing statistics on the murder rate; distrust among residents and police; schools that can't provide heat, air conditioning or water.

Discovery Communications, one of four Fortune 500 companies in Maryland, will leave the state for New York.

Former Baltimore County school superintendent Dallas Dance reported corporate alias of Chicago company that represents technology firms that have school district contracts.

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. cracked the Fortune 1000 list for the first time, the Hunt Valley-based television station owner said Wednesday.

In what experts in corporate governance believe is a first by a major money management firm, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Group is taking a stand against the growing number of public companies with two or more classes of stock that give a few insiders disproportionate voting rights.

Rebecca Amani-Dove will be the new Director of Acquisition Marketing for Discover Education, an arm of Silver Spring-based Discovery Communications that sells instructional supplements.

The company attributed the better-than-expected results partly to higher "retransmission consent fees," or fees that cable and satellite providers pay broadcasters to include their signals in channel lineups.

Some people, though, look at $1 million as chump change; those people are corporate CEOs.

President Barack Obama on Monday discussed the economic underpinnings of racial tension in places like Baltimore as he announced the creation of a nonprofit organization intended to provide opportunities for young men of color.

The number of women on corporate boards in Maryland increased last year, and for the first time, all businesses that joined the state's publicly traded companies had at least one woman board member, Network 2000 said in a report released Wednesday.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7472 in partnership with Bob Evans on Beaver Run off Executive Park Drive, Route 100 exit 1 B-C in Ellicott City, is having a fundraiser on Saturday, April 12, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot recently honored three Howard County students with the Maryland Masters Award. The students' artwork will hang in the comptroller's Annapolis office for two months.

Television executive Peter Liguori was named the new chief executive of Tribune Co. Thursday, taking the reins of the reorganized Chicago-based media company weeks after its emergence from bankruptcy.

Discovery cancels "Dirty Jobs," which Towson University graduate Mike Rowe hosted.

The wealth of information about Hurricane Sandy is necessary but also overwhelming.

Incumbent Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett -- in the fight of his political career to keep his seat in Maryland's 6th Congressional District -- raised less money over the past three months than he did in the previous quarter, campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday show.

Edgewood High graduate has made commercials, appeared in soaps and re-enacted many crimes

Howard County schools use filmmaking as a classroom tool. Documentary production allows students to "learn without realizing it."

Day trips from Washington

Meet the Recruit: Terps defensive line commitment Roman Braglio

Montgomery Co. police officer to receive award for bravery during hostage situation at Discovery Communications in 2010.

Model train exhibits in Ellicott City, Baltimore, Frederick, Hagerstown, Calvert County and Washington, D.C.

The former "Nightline" producer debuts his first documentary for BET, about Michelle Obama's trip to Africa, on Sunday night

Gov. Martin O'Malley is planning to lead a trade mission to India, he said Tuesday, in what would be his second international trip this year.

In a low-attention-span nation, both the serious and the trivial only stay on our radar screens temporarily

Nick Caloyianis' latest feature, 'Jaws Comes Home,' will kick off Discover Channel's popular Shark Week