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Given anticipated improvements in national economic activity built into state budgetary forecasts, Maryland must be in disequilibrium. Our economy is simply not expanding quickly enough to finance all of the spending in which Annapolis' policymakers collectively want to engage.

This holiday season, Santa Claus Anonymous mailed roughly 15,000 gift certificates to families in Baltimore and nearby counties for parents to use to buy presents for their children. The charity is in its 79th year.

Annapolis is preparing to host its first-ever college football bowl game on Friday.

Northrop Grumman Corp. has signed on as a sponsor of DreamIt Health Baltimore, a business accelerator already backed by Johns Hopkins University and BioHealth Innovation Inc.

With momentum building for higher hourly pay in Maryland, Rep. John K. Delaney, a co-sponsor of a federal minimum wage bill and a former CEO, urged Baltimore-area business leaders Thursday to have a voice in a measure he said is long overdue

An engineering services firm, KEYW works with software, hardware and systems engineers to develop capabilities and technologies related to cybersecurity, counterterrorism and geospatial intelligence.

Ellen Irene Rhudy, a writer and activist for Patapsco Valley environmental causes who also performed in community theater productions, died of leukemia complications Nov. 24 at Howard County General Hospital. The Marriottsville resident was 69.

Mixed emotions led Allan Stover to come clean with the military about having enlisted at 14 — and, ultimately, to found Veterans of Underage Military Service, a nonprofit created for the thousands who served before they were old enough.

The federal government intertwines with Maryland businesses in many ways, which leaves many ways for Maryland businesses to feel the pinch when large pieces of D.C. machinery come to a sudden halt.

Captain Thomas L. MacKenzie, a retired career Navy officer who was a staff member of the House Armed Services Committee, died Sept. 27 at Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Va., from complications of a fall. He was 65.

Sykesville has entered into negotiations with The Warfield Collaborative (TWC), a team of regional business people, to purchase the Warfield Complex.

The Green Business Network, which launched in late May, has six businesses certified, including Interior Harmony, LLC Acupuncture and Feng Shui, Double Diamond Construction Corporation, Lowe's in Westminster, Fern Rodkey Electric, Inc., Byrdcall Studio and Northrop Grumman in Sykesville.

A recent Fallston High School graduate is one of 24 winners of Northrop Grumman Corporation's 11th annual Engineering Scholars Program, which will provide a total of $240,000 in college scholarships this fall to high school seniors across Maryland interested in studying engineering, computer science, physics or math.

Computer science students at Hammond High School aren't just reading textbooks and taking notes these days, but are designing actual software, like interactive fossil fuel maps, for their fellow students to use in other classes.

Pastor Mark Smiley, who has been senior pastor at Hiss for the last eight years, has been appointed by Bishop John Schol of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church to the position of guide to the Western Region.

The following local students have earned accolated, degrees and honors:

Maryland shed 7,500 jobs in May in what was one of the largest losses in the country, according to new estimates.

The University of Maryland, College Park will use a $1.1 million grant from defense giant Northrop Grumman to establish a new honors concentration in cybersecurity.

Manufacturers in the Baltimore region are disproportionately high tech, according to a new study. The Brookings Institute report calls on leaders to build on local strengths, rather than writing the long-shrinking sector off as a dying field.

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. warned state regulators that it will be laying off 224 employees across the country, including dozens based at Fort Meade, after losing a contract to provide security for the National Security Agency.

Northrop Grumman Corp. will lay off 90 workers in Maryland — part of a total of 400 nationwide — in its Electronic Systems sector, part of a downsizing plan announced in October, the company said Tuesday.

Layoffs at Northrop Grumman are yet another example of Maryland's poor business climate

Northrop Grumman Corp. will cut 800 jobs in its Electronic Systems sector by the end of January through layoffs and voluntary buyouts, mostly in Maryland, the defense company said Thursday

Ronald J. Schaefer, a retired Northrop Grumman Corp. contracts manager and avid bicyclist, died Oct. 6 from prostate cancer at his Timonium home. He was 78.