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- William H. Fisher, a Korean War veteran who worked at some of the cityās eminent financial firms, died June 16 of a stroke.
- The Ravens continue to host some of the draft's top available talent.
- The generation now accounts for the greatest portion of the civilian workforce, about 40 percent, but is under-represented in the federal workforce.
- Paul Taylor completed a master's program at Bryant University, then started full-time at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Baltimore in June. To his surprise, he found the job came with an unexpected but much-needed perk -- student loan assistance as a benefit.
- Records aside, Morgan State interim football coach Fred T. Farrier is intent on turning out men.
- Promoters hope video gaming is beginning to translate to audiences as the gaming industry tries to turn mythical-world competitions into real-life spectators, sponsors and profits. So-called eSports tournaments are spreading in popularity as sponsors buy in, players become cult celebrities and an increasing number of games are streamed online and even televised.
- Johns Hopkins University and BGE plan to announce Monday a multi-million dollar initiative by 26 Baltimore companies to hire and buy supplies and services from local companies
- Cal Thomas says it's time for a new Contract with America to stem government waste.
- Hospitals are riddled with cybersecurity flaws that could let attackers break into medical devices connected to the Internet and kill patients, a team of Baltimore based researchers has concluded after a two-year investigation.
- WASHINGTON -- For months the two candidates running for Senate in Maryland have sought to distance themselves from a banking industry that remains deeply unpopular in the years since the foreclosure crisis.
- Gregory Pizzuto has worked as a chief information officer for two international law firms, as Midwest regional practice leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers and as president of a small family consulting business.
- In May, Loyola Maryland's Joe Fletcher received the William C. Schmeisser Award as the nationĀæs top defender. Now he has the hardware to show he brought that same intensity and dedication to the classroom, too.
- Silicon Valley's deals for two Columbia firms — the proposed Micros Systems acquisition last week and Sourcefire last year — strike local entrepreneurs as wins rather than losses. They want more California tech giants doing business here, more billion-dollar-plus acquisitions, more companies spinning off with the money from those deals.
- It's an Olympics of sorts for financial analysts in training. A team of five business school students from the University of Baltimore have advanced to a national round of a global challenge to create the best equity research report about a public company. They will compete Wednesday in Denver with student teams from across North America and South America.
- Maryland's competition for startup companies — with three grand prizes of $100,000 each — narrowed to nine finalists on Monday.
- It's a tumultuous time for the game-development industry, with the implosion of local studios on the one hand and the rise of the indie movement on the other.
- Uncertainty over the economy contributed to a nearly 27 percent drop last year in venture capital funding for young companies in Maryland, Washington and Northern Virginia, the first decrease since 2009, according to new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- Question 7 is a bad deal for Maryland taxpayers; voters should reject it and insist that our elected officials get us a better one.
- Young companies in Maryland, Washington and Northern Virginia raised 14 percent less funding in venture capital in the third quarter than they did last year during the same period, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- Shareholders elected four people to Legg Mason's board of directors and approved a $4.9 million pay package for Chairman and CEO Mark R. Fetting at the Baltimore-based investment firm's annual meeting Tuesday morning.
- As lawmakers wrestle with whether to add another casino at the National Harbor complex in Prince George's County, some former Arundel Mills casino foes have become its allies.
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- The developers of National Harbor announced Friday they have reached an agreement with Las Vegas giant MGM Resorts International to develop a luxury casino at the proposed gambling site on the Potomac River.
- It wasn't exactly crickets chirping, but the response to Harford County Executive David Craig's casino proposal from other elected officials was not overly enthusiastic.
- In his role as one of 11 members of state Work Group to Consider Gaming Expansion, Turner's questions and comments to presenters during the panel's June 1 and June 12 meetings indicate he hasn't changed his mind about the need to let the five authorized facilities get up and running before the state approves a sixth.
- The staff of the General Assembly and its consultants told a work group on gambling expansion Tuesday that Maryland's market is not saturated and could absorb a new casino in Prince George's County.
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- The following letter was sent Monday by Harford County Executive David Craig to John Morton III, chairman of a group appointed by the governor to study gaming expansion in Maryland:
- A Maryland gambling expansion work group was impaneled by Gov. Martin O'Malley to consider gaming expansion and adding a sixth casino in Prince George's County.. During its first meeting June 1, which lasted more than five hours, the panel received a presentation from the Department of Legislative Services and testimony from operators of the state's existing and planned slots facilities.
- Harford County Executive David R. Craig has asked a state work group studying gambling expansion to consider Harford as a casino site despite the proximity of an existing slots parlor in neighboring Cecil County.
- The owner of the soon-to-open Maryland Live! at Arundel Mills and proponents of a new casino in Prince George's County squared off Friday as a work group set up by the governor and legislative leaders began looking at the issue of possibly expanding gambling in Maryland.
- The Department of Legislative Services and the firm of Price Waterhouse are studying the possible impact of an expansion of casino gambling in Maryland.
- Missing Under Armour thumb drive with employee information was being mailed between offices of accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- Thumb drive with Under Armour payroll data lost in U.S. mail, Ohio newspaper report says.
- Maryland employers added 1,500 jobs in March — thanks entirely to growth in the private sector — but the state's unemployment rate inched up as the pool of would-be workers expanded more rapidly.
- Harford County Council members appoint the first-ever county auditor.