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Despite deal reached with banks, too many Maryland families are still losing their homes

More than 50 people came in support and opposition of the controversial James Run development project during a public hearing before the Harford County Council meeting Tuesday evening.

CFPB outlines many complaints in annual report on private loans

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, the Western Maryland Republican, is running what is now widely considered an underdog campaign to keep the House seat he has held since 1993. While the 10-term incumbent has stepped up his effort — including by raising more money than in any of his previous races — he has remained less visible than his Democratic challenger, businessman John Delaney.

The city's spending panel on Wednesday approved an $18 million loan agreement to turn hundreds of East Baltimore vacants into new and rehabbed homes.

You can call Mitt Romney a lot of things but 'self-made' isn't one of them

Baltimore's spending panel agreed Wednesday to sell the historic Senator Theatre at a $310,000 loss — over the objections of the city's comptroller.

The GOP ticket is busy alienating everyone in America but straight, white, middle-aged men.

After Regina Friend's son Roswell committed suicide last year, she was at least relieved to know that the loans he took out to pay for his Temple University degree were forgiven. But now, the Cockeysville woman has learned she faces a hefty tax bill on those canceled loans.

The zoo says Mei Xiang gave birth at 10:46 p.m. Sunday. It says the staff can hear the cub, but has yet to see it because Mei Xiang has built a large nest in her den.

Dan Schrider laughs heartily when he thinks back on it now. The morning he was to take the SAT, the then-Atholton High School student overslept. A student who, as he put it, was as focused on fun as he was on schoolwork, he didn't bother with an attempt at rescheduling the college entrance exam.

The rate of new foreclosure filings in Maryland far exceeded any other state's this spring, a spike caused in part by legal settlements that unleashed a flood of new cases.

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.

Support grows among government agencies to allow private student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy.

Millennium Financial Group Inc., a leading Mid-Atlantic retail mortgage lender, has appointed Michael Thomas, of Bel Air, as a mortgage loan officer

The following are Harford County real estate transfers recorded in January 2012 and compiled by the Harford office of the Department of Assessments and Taxation:

Support grows to allow borrowers to discharge private student loans through bankruptcy

A senior White House adviser outlined President Barack Obama's initiatives to make college more affordable and provide assistance to small businesses during an African-American policy forum at Morgan State University on Friday.

Under a landmark $175 million deal, Wells Fargo Bank will provide $7.5 million to the city of Baltimore to settle claims it engaged in price discrimination in its subprime mortgage lending practices.

Mortgage lender Embrace Home Loans recently announced the hiring of Laura Hancock as a senior loan officer in its Towson office.

With public attention focused on the Supreme court and Eric Holder, a do-nothing Congress actually does a few things.

Hundreds of borrowers complain to the CFPB about private education loans

In a vote in Westminster, the Board of Carroll County Commissioners approved an operating budget of $362 million and a capital budget of $62.2 million.

In Maryland and across the country, the baby boomer generation and other older Americans are drowning in debt, many of them because they have no choice, according to credit counselors, elder law attorneys and economists.

In Maryland and across the country, the baby boomer generation and other older Americans are drowning in debt, many of them because they have no choice, according to credit counselors, elder law attorneys and economists.

Bel Air's town employees will get a 3 percent raise in July and residents of English Country Manor should soon get their long sought traffic light at Gateway Drive and Boulton Street under the 2013 town budget that received final approval from the Board of Town Commissioners Monday.

Members of the Harford County Council agreed Tuesday to hold funding for a large portion of the planned Emergency Operations Center replacement in next year's capital budget.

Budget amendments voted on for 2013

A Reisterstown synagogue is facing foreclosure as an increasing number of houses of worship are being swept up in the financial crisis.

President Barack Obama is right to champion lower interest rates on Stafford student loans but keeping college more affordable can't end there

Anne Arundel: State Rules Against County on MOE

Harford County real estate transactions for January 2012

Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold says the state's new maintenance of effort law goes too far.

Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold's machinations have reduced the amount county schools have to spend on day-to-day educational services by $12 million a year.

County council passes business incentive with some amendments

New report warns of problems with yo-yo financing.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and schools chief executive officer Andrés Alonso presented a united front Tuesday in Annapolis as they asked state legislators to radically alter the manner in which school construction funds are provided.

Bank of America subsidiary to return $8 million

City raised rates but fund remains in the hole

Senator Theatre gets a $300,000 taqx credit from the state to do restoration of the hisoric theater, including a $100,000 roof replacement and restoration of the ceiling mural in the theater's rotunda lobby.

President Obama must make good on his promise to hold those responsible for the collapse of the housing market accountable

The superintendent of Anne Arundel County Public Schools proposed a nearly $1 billion operating budget for the 2013 fiscal year on Wednesday.

Edwin F. Hale Sr., the Baltimore trucking magnate and developer, said Friday that he has retired as chief executive and chairman of First Mariner Bancorp — the banking company he built from scratch and has struggled in the last several years to save from failure.

Jay Hancock: Jack Steil and Robert Kunisch, former executives from Mercantile Bankshares, have been consulting on a turnaround plan for 1st Mariner Bank.

A county judge denied an injunction request 25 years ago by Harford County government to stop the merger of Harford Memorial and Fallston General hospitals, which could have been completed as early as this week

Two months before the Baltimore Grand Prix, the race's organizers, desperate for cash, entered into a $1.1 million loan they believed was necessary to save the event. But the two-month loan ended up draining funds needed to pay city taxes, organizers say.