Health and beauty apps enter local market, where some providers had already established on-demand services

The Morning Report is a quick roundup of links to stories that Carroll County residents are talking about for September 6, 2016.

Sparrows Point Terminal, the Hanover-based firm that owns the site of the former steel mill, has changed its name to Tradepoint Atlantic, a move the company hopes will enhance its global appeal but that evokes feelings of loss.

With volatility in the stock market shaking up investors, Jonathan Murray, a financial adviser at Hunt Valley-based UBS Financial Services, says people should keep a long-term outlook and accept such corrections as normal.

Health care reform may be flawed but it's better than anything else available

Online retailer Amazon has partnered with the U.S. Postal Service to provide Sunday package delivery at no extra cost in two key cities, and plans to expand the program dramatically in the next year.

As more customers and companies jump into Maryland's electricity-purchase market, problems and outright scams are mounting. But the options for getting a good deal on power are rising, too.

A study in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization says that overpricing a home nets sellers a small amount of additional money than if they'd asked what the property was worth.

Five Magnolia Elementary School pupils, along with their peers from schools in Washington, D.C., Virginia and West Virginia, sat down with First Lady Michelle Obama Wednesday for a meal made with fresh produce from the White House garden.

The crowd started gathering long before the guest of honor was due to arrive. They wore No. 82 jerseys, Super Bowl XLVII championship T-shirts and any other purple article of clothing they could find, turning Jimmy's Famous Seafood into a Ravens pep rally.

Harford County officials are looking into the possible acquisition of the Mariner Point Swim Club now that a Baltimore-based church has canceled a contract to purchase the Joppatowne property.

Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette said he's not yet had serious talks about some of the Orioles' pending free agents.

Credits for impoverished areas, loans make up incentive package.

Annual Taste of Hampden fundraiser to benefit the Hampden Family Center is Oct. 24.

The Baltimore-area job market is largely split between high-skill, higher-pay work and low-skill, low-paying positions, but some opportunities exist to help workers without a college education navigate to jobs in the middle that pay the bills, a new study suggests.

Rep. Andy Harris used an appearance Monday on CNN's Crossfire to argue that the problems people are facing as they try to sign up for health insurance through Obamacare is only the beginning.

Karin Lundquist got hooked when she received her Kensie white skinny jeans in the mail. For Whitney Kippes it was the orange-and-gray color-blocked cardigan.

Environmental Recovery Corp., a residual waste-processing facility based in Lancaster, Pa., is expanding into the Baltimore area with the acquisition of two Rosedale companies.

Hundreds of miles of new fiber optic cable are lighting 21st-century ambitions across Maryland: Economic development officials imagine businesses opening or expanding thanks to more robust Internet connections. School administrators envision students using more electronic resources. Some folks just look forward to dumping their dial-up modems.

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. has closed on its planned purchase of four television stations owned by Titan Television Broadcast Group for $115.35 million.

While the Orioles didn't reach the playoffs, the club still saw noticeable growth in ticket sales, merchandise and TV ratings. Is this a sign that the brand is still on the rise?

The grounds next to the Bel Air Farmer's Market were filled with vendors from throughout Harford County, who offered tips on developing a more healthy lifestyle during Saturday's third annual Healthy Harford Day.

As Baltimore County police replace nearly 2,000 service weapons, they won't allow the old ones to be sold in gun shops — a decision that will prevent firearms from entering the open market but could triple the agency's cost.

The city is expanding the Purple Route of the Charm City Circulator bus line to University Parkway in north Baltimore in 2014, because of the efforts of the Charles Village Civic Association. The only downside is that people wanted it this year, but city officials say funding isn't available until fiscal 2015.

Besides giving a boost to start-ups, the show is a welcome start to the fall convention season for the city

Cornell University released its report Sunday on incidents that led to the suspension of the men's lacrosse team from fall events. The report reveals what it calls a "presence of a culture within this group of treating new members as less than equals."

Baltimore tourism leaders will have to find another way to draw visitors over Labor Day weekend after the Grand Prix of Baltimore was canceled. They are focused on more sporting events and filling up the dead time of winter.

Col. Brian Foley has taken command of Fort Meade at a challenging time for the U.S. military.

Paul Reed Smith Guitars recently launched a mid-priced guitar to fill a gap in its lineup. The Eastern Shore company reimagined its manufacturing process to cut the man hours — and cost — to let it make such instruments in America.

Cedar Cafe in East Towson has grand opening

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.

Tech savvy millennials may be used to buying almost anything online, but they still do most of their shopping in stores, especially those that keep their offerings fresh and make the experience social, according to research from the Urban Land Institute.

RS&F, an Owings Mills accounting firm, has expanded to Washington by acquiring the assets of a D.C. company specializing in print and media industries.

Men's retailer Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. said profit fell 38 percent in the second quarter after the chain's promotions failed to lure shoppers.

Competition has spawned half a dozen lawsuits in recent years and an "advertising war" between Ameritox and Millennium Laboratories, accusing each other of false advertising, patent infringement and kickbacks to physicians.

Ramos – who is of Puerto Rican descent – was recently named as the winner of the conference's American Dream Award, which recognizes an entrepreneur who has achieved business success while overcoming obstacles.

Kodiane, a Cherry Hill resident who was a guest speaker at Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Lafayette Square. He appeared as part of an Interfaith Worker Justice of Maryland effort to connect low wage workers with religious congregations.

Merkle Inc. CEO David Williams participating in Porsche races during weekend Grand Prix event

BGE customers are collectively saving nearly 1.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year through energy-efficiency incentive programs. It's enough energy to power 156,000 homes for a year, or the equivalent of a year's worth of greenhouse gas emissions from 230,000 cars.

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