Baltimore startup Riskive's focus on social media security with FriendGuard landed the company with a host of tech industry honors and $2.2 million from prominent local and regional investors.

Who would have guessed 15 years ago that Martin Roesch's free computer network security program would turn into a $2.7 billion deal? Not Roesch, founder of Columbia-based Sourcefire, which just agreed to sell itself to tech giant Cisco Systems for that eye-popping figure.

Columbia-based cybersecurity firm Sourcefire is being acquired by Cisco for $2.7 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

Long-time downward trend in cigarette use threatened by other tobacco use

John Edwin Brewer, a retired computer engineer and artist, died of congestive heart failure May 26 at Texoma Medical Center in Denison, Texas. He was 73 and had lived in Pasadena.

University of Maryland Medical System to buy St. Joseph Medical Center

Baltimore's top information technology official resigned Tuesday after an audit in New York detailed alleged ethical violations that occurred while he worked in state government, including negotiating a job for his girlfriend and soliciting a job himself with a software vendor that was awarded a major contract.

Towson coach Rob Ambrose bans Twitter, says he's trying to protect players from violating NCAA rules

Every month for the past 12 years, area baseball fans have converged on seminar rooms in Columbia for "Talkin' Baseball," a chance to discuss the nuances of the game they love.

Harford Soil Conservation District awards Pylesville man as Conservationist of the Year at annual banquet

Talkin' Baseball is a Columbia group of baseball fans that meets monthly to talk about their very favorite sport

Helen R. Walsh, a registered nurse who helped her physician husband establish Project Hope in the 1950s, which brought health care to developing countries and disaster relief, died Thursday from congestive heart failure at her Bethesda home.