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Plans to create five residential lots on land owned by the Winters Run Golf Club in Bel Air are scheduled to go before the members of Harford County's Development Advisory Committee next month.

Longtime Baltimore grocery chain Stop Shop and Save is in the process of closing its last four locations, leaving behind some neighborhoods without a grocery store to call their own.

Elliott A. Brager, an attorney who was an accomplished fundraiser for HIV treatment and research, died of heart failure Monday at his Mount Washington home. He was 72.

Baltimore consignment boutiques offer luxury at a fraction of the cost.

Baltimore Housing has launched a marketing campaign for a selected group of so called "eclectic" properties, in an effort to highlight the value hidden in the sea of roughly 1,000 vacants listed for sale.

Nearly one year after the collision of a waste truck and a CSX Transportation train not far from Pulaski Highway, business leaders in the surrounding industrial park say they are still sorting out the mess.

Home sales dipped slightly last month in the Baltimore region, amid concern about a nationwide slowing in housing market activity.

Operators of the Winters Run Golf Club near Bel Air are looking to sell a portion of their property that could include a house which local historical researchers say may date back to pre-Revolutionary times.

Maryland posted one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation in March, while home prices in the Baltimore area remained flat, according to new reports on the regional housing market.

A group of Towson University business students, through nonprofit Enactus, are helping Cedar Cafe Shop owner in Towson market her business.

Susan Aplin worked behind the scenes for two decades helping run some of the biggest retail brands around– Williams Sonoma, Sports Authority, Staples, The Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Pottery Barn. But after traveling to Alaska's Prince William Sound, she found her true calling – retail with a cause and online retailer bambeco, seller of sustainable home furnishings, was born.

Norman J. Roppelt, a champion duckpin bowler and softball player who was a member of the Maryland Old Timers Softball Association's Hall of Fame, died Jan. 16 of pneumonia at Hilton Head Hospital in Hilton Head, S.C. The former longtime Rosedale resident was 97.

The stock of Roland Park's Video Americain, possibly Baltimore's last video rental store, will be up for grabs next week, after negotiations for a single buyer to purchase the store's 35,000-unit inventory failed.

Baltimore-area home prices and the number of sales continued to rise in October, prompting a rush of would-be sellers to put their houses on the market, according to numbers released this morning.

Report notes lack of annual reports, failure to inventory collection

Galling as it may be to be lectured by Vladimir Putin on the topic of world peace and international law, the Russian president now has every incentive to deliver on his promises in Syria.

RealEstate Business Intelligence: Sales of homes in metro Baltimore jumped nearly 17 percent in August from a year earlier, with high demand pushing up the month's sales prices to the highest levels since 2008.

The new owners of Lax World plan to ride the sport's mushrooming popularity to rapidly expand the small retail chain and establish it as the go-to brand for lacrosse gear nationwide.

For Ravens fans hoping to attend the home opener against the Cleveland Browns Sept. 15 in full team gear, a stop a the Baltimore Sports & Novelty shop in Owings Mills might be the way to go.

Business at Roland Park video-rental store has fallen 40 percent in six years

Two years after the Obama administration restarted a long-standing effort to rid itself of surplus federal buildings almost all of the excess property identified in Maryland remains in government hands, a Baltimore Sun review has found.

Prices have improved modestly in the past six months, according to multiple list data

Since the Orioles started playing never-say-die comeback baseball the second half of last season, TV viewing has spiked. In 2011, O¿s telecasts on MASN ranked 18th in ratings among the teams in Major League Baseball. So far this season, they rank fifth, and have had an 86 percent jump in ratings since 2011.

Gun store owners who lose track of their inventory are worthy of NSA investigation

Maryland firearms dealers rank number three in the nation for the number of guns lost or stolen from their inventories, putting us all at risk from weapons that fall into the wrong hands. A new state law should help.

Nearly 1,000 guns were reported lost or stolen from federally licensed gun dealers in Maryland last year, the third-highest number of any state in the country, according to a federal report released this week.

The metro Baltimore median home sales price last month was up 5.3 percent from May 2012.

Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. said Wednesday its first quarter earnings slid 45 percent as store sales slowed, inventory costs rose and the men's apparel chain sold more items at clearance prices.

Royal Farms has agreed to pay a $600,000 penalty for fuel leaks at two of its outlets and to check dozens more for possible problems, the Maryland Department of the Environment said.

Biodiversity conference opens in Baltimore

Pool supplier NAMCO LCC is closing four Maryland locations, the company announced Friday.

Parents of children who attend 15 Harford County public schools were warned by school officials Thursday night that their children may have eaten a pizza product that is subject to a voluntary recall because of possible E. coli bacteria contamination.

Paul Capriolo and the crew at Social Growth Technologies are looking forward to graduation, having spent years getting ready for the world outside this one-story beige building in Columbia. The Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship is not a school, but it does cultivate business and launch its charges onto bigger things.

In the past five months, nearly 100 homes in metro Baltimore went under contract in 24 hours or less, according to data complied by real estate brokerage Redfin.

Stephen R. Krause, a software designer and inventor, died Friday from respiratory failure at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital on his 76th birthday.

Stephen R. Krause, a software designer and inventor, died Friday from respiratory failure at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital on his 76th birthday.

Big Lots Stores Inc. has agreed to purchase inventory from the financially ailing Commerce Corp. for an amount expected to top $6 million, according to recent bankruptcy court documents.

This is the story of the real estate market in Greater Baltimore last year: a shrinking inventory is met with increasing demand and so prices rise, leading to a steadier market than the one that has wobbled along for the past few years.

Evernote Food helps users find, collect and share recipes and restaurant meals.

Within UPS's Information Services Group in Timonium, a team of 80 mathematicians and engineers make projections for the shipping world of the future. The group designs the technology behind the routing and dispatching of packages handled by the brown delivery trucks during peak holiday season.

The number of homes sold in the Baltimore area in September was nearly 10 percent higher than a year ago — but down significantly from August, according to data released Tuesday by an affiliate of the region's multiple-listing service.