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A Family Dollar store is slated to open this fall as an anchor tenant in Cold Spring Shopping Center in Baltimore.

An $8.5 billion merger of dollar stores to create North America's biggest discount chain could mean stiff competition for mass discounters such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. but less choice and higher prices for shoppers.

The results from the seven meets involving teams in the Columbia Neighborhood Swim League for the third week of the summer.

Teams in the Columbia Neighborhood Swim League competed in Week Two Saturday

The 2,500 slot machines being installed at Horseshoe incorporate the latest technology and pop-culture themes, ranging from "The Walking Dead" to the retro 1960s-era "Batman" television show. Unlike yesterday's one-armed bandits, today's machines are more akin to video games and some even mimic arcade rides, rocking your chair like a mechanical bull.

A budget that focuses on proactive ways in which we can reduce the incidence of disease, disorder and calamity holds more promise from a humanity and cost efficiency perspective than might be imagined. In all domains, problems can be avoided rather than addressed retroactively

Three Baltimore City men arrested last month following a convenience store robbery in Towson were indicted earlier this week on 39 counts each on charges stemming from nine separate robberies in Baltimore County, according to Baltimore County Circuit Court records.

A Development Review Committee hearing for a proposed Family Dollar store on Sherwood Road in Idlewylde was postponed after the community requested more time to organize, Councilman David Marks said Wednesday.

The three men responsible for building and designing a Dollar General discount retail store in Dublin did not have one visitor for their Community Input Meeting Wednesday evening, other than a reporter for The Aegis and a few walk-ins from a fire and EMS association function in the same building.

Results from the Columbia Neighborhood Swim League meets for the week of July 13

The CNSL summer season continues at pools around Columbia

The CNSL summer season continues at pools around Columbia

Delhaize America, the parent company of Bottom Dollar Food Store and Food Lion grocery stores, is converting the two Bottom Dollar stores in Laurel to Food Lion stores, and the process is nearly complete at the store on Sandy Spring Road.

U.S. accuses China of currency manipulation but intervenes with interest rates to achieve similar ends

Maryland women were paid 86 cents for every dollar paid to men in the state in 2011, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the National Partnership for Women & Families.

In reference to all the information provided about the Economic Development Policy, I submit the following from my committee, The Citizens of Harford County Watchdog Committee, an organization for fiscal responsibility and representative government in all matters of governmental fiduciary accountability, regarding economic development.

WWE superstar Ted DiBiase discusses his impending return to WWE, The Marine franchise, his father, The Million Dollar Man, becoming a father and much more.

Europe's single currency has made the continent's problems worse

The dollar coin makes sense but won't succeed until the dollar bill is eliminated

Dollar coin: Switch to dollar coins would save money, benefit consumers

Women make less than men in Maryland, findings show, and Alison Assanah-Carroll, a Windsor Mill resident, knows it all too well.

10 years after playing for the Terps' national title team, former Maryland guard Drew Nicholas has become one of the top guards in Europe.

'Word on the Street' newspaper gives the homeless a chance at a living — and a chance to give voice to their experiences

Delhaize America, the Belgium company that owns Food Lion as well as Bottom Dollar and Bloom, announced Jan. 11 that it is closing 126 stores, "retiring" the Bloom banner and converting 64 Bloom and Bottom Dollar Food stores in Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia to Food Lion stores. Three Laurel stores will become Food Lions, and conversions will begin immediately.

As world economies knit ever closer together, the debt woes and economic slowdown in Europe are sending ripples across the Atlantic — giving pause to Maryland companies anxious about recessionary contagion and offering business opportunities to others.

Peter Morici says EU needs broad authority to tax, spend and borrow

If U.S. wants to get serious about dollars coins piling up in Baltimore, start by ending production of the dollar bill

Because of a 2005 congressional mandate, the Federal Reserve is storing more than $1 billion worth of dollar coins nationwide that consumers and commercial banks have largely rejected.

Customers at dollar stores are scrimping, while luxury good retailers are reporting double-digit sales increases. It's one more sign of how the burden of a bad economy falls harder on those at the low end.

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