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August was a strong month from homes sales in the Baltimore metro region, with growth for completed home sales and new sales contracts signed both increasing by about 18 percent compared to last year.

William Thomas Napier Martin IX, who was one of the world's largest collectors and sellers of vintage postcards, died Wednesday of heart disease at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 71.

After nearly 30 years in the Hickory area, a local hardware store is closing its doors.

The Baltimore metro region had the best July in six years for contracts signed to buy homes, according to data released Friday by an affiliate of the region's multiple listing service.

The Sparrows Point steel mill was sold Tuesday to a plant demolition company for $72 million after no steelmaking companies showed up at auction to bid, the union said.

The Howard County Alcohol Beverage Hearing Board Monday unanimously voted to deny a liquor license for a store that was planned to sell beer, wine and hard liquor from leased space on the second floor of the Columbia Wegmans.

An average of twice a day, a patient at the University of Maryland Medical Center has a heart attack, dangerous allergic reaction or other emergency that requires supplies from a crash cart.s

Sports apparel maker Under Armour Inc. reported a 7 percent gain in second-quarter earnings Tuesday, beating Wall Street estimates as new offerings in women's apparel and footwear helped drive sales increases.

Baltimore-area homeowners trying to sell are having the easiest time of it in six years, as the balance of power — though not price — shifts back to where it was before the market crashed.

Home sales are ratcheting up in the Baltimore area as buying choices shrink, leaving sellers with more leverage than they've had in five years — at least for now.

Jung offers a positive, life-enhancing approach to aging in which psychological and spiritual development is possible across the life span.

Many in Baltimore's technology community now know Ron Schmelzer as the guy who organizes the monthly Baltimore Tech Breakfasts. The Baltimore Sun recently interviewed Schmelzer, who talked about launching Baltimore TechBreakfast, the region's technology community, and his plans for his latest startup venture, Bizelo.

Baltimore becomes the third city in the country to get a ToolBank where churches and charitable groups can borrow tools for a small fee

Baltimore is a great place for recent college graduates to settle down, according to a report released Thursday by major job- and apartment-hunting websites.

Bidding wars for homes are back in the Baltimore region, but unlike the last time, sellers aren't making a killing.

Usually boutique owners purchase clothes for four seasons — five, if you count resort. But in Baltimore, there's an additional buying season—Preakness.

The Baltimore region saw a big gain in average home sale prices in April thanks to a shrunken foreclosure supply.

The effort by community leaders to prepare Baltimore for the new economy is laudable, but it should not overlook the population of ex-offenders who have trouble getting any jobs at all.

Columnist Tony Glaros writes about the somber atmosphere surrounding the closing days of the Laurel Art Center, an iconic business on Main Street.

The eclectic inventory of the long-standing but recently shuttered Laurel Art Center on Main Street in Laurel will be sold during a liquidation sale this weekend.

Proposal to sell city-owned historic properties should prompt a renewed effort to inventory and protect Baltimore's heritage

Major's Choice residents to be billed near $1,000 for stormwater pond work

Video American store in Charles Village to close

The number of homes for sale is falling fast in communities across the Baltimore region. But it's not quite the cheery news of less supply and more demand — the precursor to price gains — that beleaguered homeowners have been waiting for.

Efforts to save the long-standing Laurel Art Center on Main Street in Laurel are underway, but details remain unclear as to...

The owners of Third Avenue Convenience in Lansdowne appeared before the Baltimore County Board of Liquor Commissioners on Monday to apply for a license that will allow them to sell liquor in addition to the wine and beer they already sell. The Lansdowne Improvement Association was against the change.

The Laurel Art Center is closed pending an ownership transfer of its inventory, and won't likely reopen until mid-April, according to...

Home sale prices in Baltimore buoyed the region with a steep increase last month, while the number of homes on the market reached its lowest point in nearly six years, numbers released Friday show.

State audit finds Springfield Hospital Center did not keep proper track of its pharmaceuticals

Restaurant Week updates: Did the morning snow free up some evening tables?

Perryville town commissioners vote to write-off $9,000 in uncollectable taxes

Some operations at the idled Sparrows Point steel mill will restart this week after the plant was shut down last month for an indefinite period, a company official said.

Changes could be made to Perryville's landlord/tenant ordinance

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has not lost track of guns used in safety training courses

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police lost track of 761 state-owned firearms it issued to volunteer trainers in hunter education programs, creating a "public safety risk" and a potential misuse of federal money, according to a recent audit by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

If this past week was not a wake-up call to make sure you are financially prepared to survive a natural disaster, what is?

Insurance companies prepare for Irene

From cupcakes to pilates, yarn to fashion, these mother-daughter duos thrive in Howard County

NOAA is creating an inventory of more than 30,000 coastal shipwrecks — many casualties of the 1942 Battle of the Atlantic — and identify those that pose the most significant threat.

About to turn 89, Virginia Jefferson is retiring and selling a business founded by her father in 1917. This week, she will leave an office that has never seen a computer and the desk where she has worked since 1946.