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On Sept. 18, Wegmans will open its eighth Maryland store at Foundry Row, a new 350,000-square-foot retail center at the intersection of Reisterstown and Painters Mill roads, previous home of Solo Cup's manufacturing site.

Coleen Kramer Beal receives corporate values award Janney Velnoskey

On the Season 3 finale of "Bachelor in Paradise," three couples get engaged.

Dozens of organizations wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday to ask him to explain why his company shut down Korryn Gaines' account at the request of police during a standoff between the Randallstown woman and Baltimore County officers.

By Alison Knezevich

Aug 22, 2016

Deborah Davis, a longtime employee of WYPR public radio station with a passion for theatre, music and equality, died on Dec. 23 at Gilchrist Hospice Care after battling cancer. She was 61.

The fact that State's Attorney Mosby is now asking a judge to issue a gag order against defense lawyers in the Freddie Gray case is more than just troubling; it shows a misunderstanding of ethics rules on pre-trial publicity.

The MASN court case outcome has implications for the bottom line of the network, and for the clubs' ability to sign players.

By Jeff Barker

May 15, 2015

Departures signal fading media power of a generation

By David Zurawik

May 15, 2015

Internet marketing firm Jellyfish has quietly built up a $100 million business in Baltimore helping clients drum up business from Google searches.

By Scott Dance

May 8, 2015

WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross talks about Baltimore, his upcoming show at Rams Head Live!

By Aaron Oster

May 8, 2015

Mary McNamara wins the Pulitzer for pieces analyzing television's impact.

Cal Thomas on the Bruce Jenner television special: It is as if a lid has been lifted from the American sewer.

In the aftermath Monday's riots and fires in response to Freddie Gray's death, volunteers are coming out in force looking for ways to help. Here are just few ways to contribute your time, money or resources.

If some city lamp poles seem taller next year, don't be surprised.

By Natalie Sherman

Apr 24, 2015

The Greater Baltimore Medical Center's Spring Nearly New Sale takes place this year from April 25-May 2.

Benn Ray writes Hampden column for April 23 Messenger

"Serial," the phenomenally successful podcast about the murder of a Baltimore teen in 1999, has always struck me as being a media story as much as a crime or legal affairs one.

By David Zurawik

Apr 13, 2015

As fans gear up for what they hope will be a fourth consecutive winning season for the Orioles, the team and businesses hope to carry over success from 2014 into the new season.

By Scott Dance

Apr 11, 2015

Jonah Goldberg asks what the big deal is about Indiana's religious freedom law

Health Department launches new anti-underage drinking campaign.

Forbes Magazine's annual MLB franchise rankings value the Orioles at $1 billion and say the team's fans are No. 10 in baseball.

By Jon Meoli

Mar 25, 2015

African American community leaders implored a sea of mostly black men at a Northwest Baltimore church Tuesday to mentor black youth and help stop a "genocide" of black males being lost to homicide.

By Justin George

Mar 25, 2015

Last June, Natalie Samuel went through with the "big chop." The 33-year-old Columbia resident cut off all of her chemically straightened hair in an attempt to return her mane to its tightly curled, natural state.

By John-John Williams IV

Mar 4, 2015

Ed and Ann Berlin's professional lives took a fresh turn when they took over as owners of the 10-year-old Ivy Bookshop in January, 2012. She had years of experience as a book publishing executive, he had devoted much of his professional life to the technical side of finance, but neither had run a retail store. The work has been harder than Ed Berlin thought at first, but he said they've maintained 8-to-10 percent sales growth every year and stuck to their commitment to high literary quality.

By Arthur Hirsch

Feb 13, 2015

It stretches credulity to believe that the slaying of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill was not linked, at least in part, to anti-Islamic sentiments

Jonah Goldberg: Brian Williams is a serial embellisher, a self-aggrandizing fabulist.

Flavor Cupcakery & Bake Shop in Cockeysville is gearing up for one of its biggest sale days: Valentine's Day. Owner Shelley Stannard says that between the Cockeysville shop and second she owns in Bel Air, the business expects to sell some 8,000 cupcakes.

ISPs fears about net neutrality are wildly overblown.

NFL's power over its broadcast outlets has gone too far

By David Zurawik

Jan 30, 2015