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December was another positive month for home sales in metro Baltimore, though the market supply of homes continued to dwindle, dropping below 10,000 for the first time since February 2006.

When the wealthy pull back, the poor and middle class are left holding the bag

Drug shortages in Maryland are still a problem, and legislators are looking at a way to solve it.

Hearings begin Monday in a case that will decide whether Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers can expect higher distribution rates next year.

Robert Reich says paying employees better is good for everyone

PRWeb misses fraudulent press release

Some 400 retired Baltimore County police department employees could receive repayments in health care subsidies, after the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a grievance brought by the police union.

MedImmune leaders say the company is at a key point in developing drugs for AstraZeneca and has grown despite fears its acquisition would hurt Maryland.

Exporting natural gas from Cove Point would benefit Maryland and the nation

The Distressed Homeowner Initiative was the ¿first-ever nationwide effort to target fraud schemes that prey upon suffering homeowners,¿ according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.

The CEO pay disclosed this year by the 20 largest publicly traded companies in the Baltimore region offers plenty of fodder — as it does every year — to steam the ranks of workers with paychecks that barely budge.

Hundreds of Baltimore shoppers packed into the newly reopened Boscov's Friday morning, welcoming the department store back as if they were greeting an old friend

An activist investor in Annapolis' TeleCommunication Systems Inc. has called on the company to pursue a sale or merger, as the company deals with a slumped stock price over the past two years.

Suburban Maryland has the fifth tightest market in the nation for finished vacant lots in terms of monthly supply — the number of months that the supply of lots will last with the current level of demand, according to Metrostudy, a housing research firm.

More than 700 people turned out for workshops Tuesday intended to connect laid-off Sparrows Point workers and contractors with health insurance, training and other aid.

Maryland should again raise the cost of smoking

Average sale prices stayed steady or rose in more than half the Baltimore region during the first six months of the year, according to a Baltimore Sun analysis. It's the newest evidence that the housing bust is over.

In the Baltimore area, some florists and party supply businesses are scrambling to find new suppliers for the helium that floats their balloons. Most are paying more for supplies, while some have raised prices or temporarily turned customers away. Other industries are feeling the pinch too; besides inflating balloons and blimps, helium is used to eliminate oxygen in welding for the aerospace industry, to cool magnets in MRI scanners and to help deep sea divers create a nitrogen-free atmosphere.

Maryland health officials added five people to the death toll from July heat with more high temperatures in the forecast.

After a disappointing start to summer for some retailers, many are hoping for a boost from back-to-school shopping, the second-biggest sales period of the year.

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.

Baltimore-area homeowners trying to sell are having the easiest time of it in six years, as the balance of power — though not price — shifts back to where it was before the market crashed.

Congress should follow Maryland's example and raise cigarette tax to reduce health care costs, improve health and save lives

Everything she wanted was out of her price range until she came upon Rent the Runway and it was a match made, well, on the Internet.

State and county employees give rundown of tax assessment process to Jarrettsville residents

Bidding wars for homes are back in the Baltimore region, but unlike the last time, sellers aren't making a killing.

FTI Consulting Inc.'s stock price hit a 12-month low Wednesday after the business services company fell short of financial analysts' expectations for first-quarter earnings.

A new crop of boutiques cater to younger, more price-conscious shoppers.

Copper theft -- striking many utilities and other businesses -- has been common in Maryland since sharp price increases took the price of copper from about $1.25 per pound in January 2009 to about $4.50 per pound in May 2011. From Capital News Service (CNS)

Human Genome ultimately rebuffed a $2.6 billion offer by biopharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline Plc, saying it was too low – though it has put itself on the market. Catalyst agreed to be acquired by a larger Illinois competitor for $4.4 billion.

With time running out in Annapolis, Gov. Martin O'Malley should call for a special session to confront the state's neglected transportation finances

Spice maker McCormick & Co. is planning to make more acquisitions, especially in emerging markets in Eastern Europe and Asia, where sales are expected to make up 13 percent of the firm's overall revenue this year.

Smaller boutiques hope to capture a glimmer of the magic experienced by national retailers such as Target and H&M as they team up with designers to craft exclusive garments and accessories

Dividends, once out of favor, are now a hot item, with Apple joining dividend payers this summer.

Constellation Energy Group, Baltimore's last Fortune 500 company, also settled a federal investigation into market manipulation as Chicago-based Exelon Corp. closed its $7.9 billion takeover on Monday.

T. Rowe Price Group increased its quarterly dividend to 34 cents per share, up from 31 cents, the Baltimore money manager announced Thursday.

Municipal finances: Local governments can find sources of revenue through innovative leveraging of public assets

President Obama's compromise on contraceptives and religious groups would simply spread the cost to other health care products and services.

Thanks in large part to booming production of natural gas from shale deposits in neighboring states, a Maryland LNG terminal could be bustling again in several years — exporting the heating and industrial fuel to other countries, instead of importing it.

The leasing agent at the Boulevard at Box Hill retail center in Abingdon formally announced Thursday that JC Penney will become the second anchor at the center, joining Wegmans which opened last fall.

Baltimore's T. Rowe Price is a significant investor in Facebook

Gov. Martin O'Malley wants to apply Maryland's 6 percent sales tax to gasoline, a change that at current prices would add 18 cents a gallon to the cost at the pump.

CVS Caremark settles FTC charge for $5 million

Get ready to pay more for Powerball: Ticket prices are going up to $2.

Baltimore restaurants offering fixed-price menus and fireworks to New Year's Eve diners