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I was standing in the fly fishing section of the venerable L.L. Bean store in Freeport, Maine, trying to gauge the action of an 8-weight fly rod when a man sidled up to me and whispered in a conspiratorial voice, "I've convinced my wife I need a rod in every weight made."

Business is brisk this time of year for the Washington-based technology company Optoro, which processes and re-sells returned merchandise for some of the biggest retailers in the country.

The Board of County Commissioners is accepting bids for surplus real-estate properties throughout Carroll County.

Come Saturday, it will be 50 years ago to the day that The Beatles, in the midst of their first U.S. tour and just seven months after conquering America from the stage of CBS' "Ed Sullivan Show," played a pair of concerts at what was then called the Baltimore Civic Center (it's now the Baltimore Arena, and looks pretty much the same as it did half a century ago).

Thieves who steal data are striking with alarming frequency. And more and more, security experts say, cyber-criminals are targeting the places where people shop.

Baltimore start-up Verve LLC has created the first successfully crowdfunded project to come out of the downtown non-profit Baltimore Foundery.

Samuel L. Morison, 69, is charged with theft of government property

With his fife's high-pitched notes soaring over enthusiastic throngs that gather each year to celebrate Memorial Day, Dave Embrey is an attention-getter.

A company that helps nonprofits raise money has landed a $10 million investment and is acquiring Baltimore-based competitor GiveCorps for an undisclosed sum.

This Louisiana woman and Fallston man found bond in country roots

One way or another, some effort should be made to preserve both the building, and the financial rights of its owners.

Signs of the past present a problem

Nostalgia among those who grew up in Laurel has caused its memorabilia to become a hot collectible. Every imaginable collectible is available, such as old photos, postcards, T-shirts, and even some Laurel Police Department patches.

Last year my wife, Leslie, and I, after 20 years of marriage and five houses -- Cape Cod bungalow, brick Colonial, one-level ranch, a spec contemporary and a 6,000-square-foot McMansion -- downsized into a 2,200-square-foot farmhouse within walking distance of Washington, D.C.'s East Falls Church Metro station.

Business e-end in Frederick carves niche with federal government and contractors

We spend a lot of time during the offseason talking about market value. What¿s the market on free-agent closers? When will the starting pitcher market set itself?

Two women pleaded guilty Friday to using stolen medical records to open or take over credit accounts at department stores and setting up a cottage industry selling fraudulently obtained goods.

If Santa Claus had ever contemplated expanding his toy-making empire from the North Pole to a more strategic hub closer to the nation's capital, he might have found the mill town of Savage to his liking in 1948.

Despite the troubles of its program, Baltimore should not abandon the use of speed cameras to slow motorists in school zones.

An Ellicott City man who ran for Howard County Board of Education three times unsuccessfully was sentenced Moday in federal court for impersonating a U.S. Secret Service agent in what lawyers on both sides agreed was a "sad" case.

Spencer Schulz, 21 of Cockeysville, is selling Super Bowl turf for a New Orleans nonprofit as part of an internship he is doing as a student in Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business.

Jacob T. George IV, 32, sold heroin and methylone using online market

A federal judge in Maryland handed down lighter prison sentences to defendants in a massive marijuana distribution case, saying that such offenses are "not regarded with the same seriousness" as they were just a few decades ago.

With Amazon founder Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar putting up $250 milllion for a project featuring journalist Glenn Greenwald, it is starting to feel as tech billionaires might be just the folks to save journalism.

A federal judge said Friday he would consider lighter-than-normal sentences for members of a major suburban marijuana smuggling organization — the latest fallout of the drug's legalization in several U.S. states.

When Amazon.com opens a huge distribution center next year in Southeast Baltimore, consumers across the state who buy books, electronics, toys or anything else from the online seller will no longer be able to avoid the state's 6 percent sales tax on those purchases.

Amazon.com will open a 1 million-square-foot distribution center that could employ 1,000 people at the site of the former General Motors plant in Southeast Baltimore, the company announced Tuesday.

Event planner, interior designer Stephanie Bradshaw grows Baltimore business

Finksburg man buys Jeep for $57,100; 10% of price will aid Erika Brannock Fund

For passengers waiting to catch a plane or folks waiting for someone on a plane, the surroundings at BWI Marshall Airport improved with the opening Friday morning of the two-story observation gallery near Concourse C.

Hamsterdam doesn't have a trademark on its Chris Davis shirts, but it has challenged others who are trying to make a buck off their idea ... and Davis' fame

A Florida man who sold military-style night-vision goggles without a license to an undercover agent in Baltimore — believing him to be an overseas buyer — was sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of probation late Wednesday, prosecutors announced Thursday.