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National Penn Bank — a regional bank that mostly operates in Pennsylvania — emerged as the highest bidder for 1st Mariner Bank Friday, dashing the hopes of group of investors who wanted the bank to remain based in Baltimore.

Stanley D. Thrift Jr., a retired maintenance technician, died Friday of undetermined causes at Comemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, Pa. He was 54.

The historic Equitable Trust office building, adjacent to the courthouse, will be converted into 180 residential apartments, the latest downtown development designed to capitalize on trends that predict increased urban living.

Mark P. Becker, Bert J. Hash Jr., Robert "Bobby" Parker and Clark Turner have been announced as the Class of 2013 of the Havre de Grace High School Hall of Fame.

Maryland has dozens of small community banks, now under growing pressure to get bigger

A 50-year-old man who threatened to shoot patrons and tellers while robbing two Baltimore banks within a block of each other near Johns Hopkins Hospital was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison.

A stroke in 2007 hasn't slowed Bel Air resident Phil Anderson, who will add to his total of 40,000 miles running when he participates in the 22nd Northern Central Trail Marathon in Baltimore County next Saturday.

Robert G. Wilmers, M&T Bank Corp.'s chairman and chief executive officer, has been leading the Buffalo, N.Y. bank's shopping spree in Maryland.

Artists' Initiative debuts at Olney Theatre, Performance Workshop Theatre opens new home in Hamilton