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• Business

Sinclair will acquire Fisher Communications for $373.3 million

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. is continuing a push into new markets across the U.S. with an announcement Thursday that it plans to acquire Fisher Communications Inc. in a $373.3 million deal.

• Travel

Traveling weather or not

Tony Pann's celebrity traveler tips

• Baltimore County

Sinclair to acquire 18 TV stations for $370 million

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. plans to buy 18 television stations owned by Barrington Broadcasting Group for $370 million.

• Business

Tribune Co. hires banks to manage offers for newspapers

• Media Industry

Sinclair will buy four Cox Media TV stations for $99 million

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. has agreed to buy four television stations owned by Cox Media Group for $99 million, the latest deal for Sinclair in a string of acquisitions over the past year and a half.

• Education

Catonsville and Arbutus students are finalists in Champions of Courage essay competition

Catonsville and Arbutus students among finalists

• Business

Sinclair Broadcast says profits soared in fourth quarter

The Hunt Valley-based TV station benefited from political and auto advertising.

• Sports

Ravens fans' road trip to Super Bowl includes the comforts of home

When Scott and Jackie Dunkel left Millersville last weekend and headed south to New Orleans, two Super Bowl tickets in hand, they took all the comforts of home with them, from satellite TV and Internet hookups to a king-sized bed and the kitchen sink.

• Baltimore County

Oak Crest retirement facility takes to YouTube to cheer on Ravens

Oak Crest retirement community in Parkville films YouTube video to cheer on the Ravens for the Super Bowl.

• Business

Liguori named CEO of Tribune Co.

Television executive Peter Liguori was named the new chief executive of Tribune Co. Thursday, taking the reins of the reorganized Chicago-based media company weeks after its emergence from bankruptcy.

• Sports

Morning Shootaround: Analyzing the Terps' 65-62 loss to Florida State

Don Markus takes a look at the end of Maryland's 13-game winning streak with the defeat at Comcast Center

• Food & Drink

Ravens fever hits the Greene Turtle

Local station 98 Rock brought its Purple Caravan to the Greene Turtle on McHenry Row for a Purple Friday rally

• Business

Tribune Co. to emerge from bankruptcy Monday

After spending more than four years embroiled in a contentious Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, the reorganized Tribune Co. will emerge Monday under new owners and a newly appointed board, freed from its massive debt and facing an uncertain future, officials said.

• Television Industry

Sinclair Broadcast purchases nine TV stations

Sinclair Broadcast Group said Monday that it has closed on eight television stations it expected to acquire in December and — in a new move — purchased an additional station in New York.

• Kraft Foods

Train garden in Arbutus car repair shop opens for 15th year

Free display features trains and scenes on two levels at Arbutus autobody shop

• Sports

Ex-Kentucky star Sean Woods to lead Morehead State against Terps

Sean Woods hit a shot that was nearly one of the biggest in Kentucky basketball history, a high-arching bank off the backboard on a drive down the lane in the waning seconds to put the Wildcats ahead against defending national champion Duke in the 1992 East Regional final.

• Obituaries

Christopher Gaul, editor and reporter

Christopher Gaul, editor and reporter

• Politics

Gallaudet asks same-sex marriage opponents to pull ad

Gallaudet University is asking the group opposing Maryland's same-sex marriage law to take down a new commercial that features a member of the university's staff who was suspended for signing a petition to put the measure on the ballot.

• Elections

Baltimore TV stations get boost from gambling ads

Baltimore television stations were expecting little in the way of political advertising this campaign year. Then the fight over expanded gambling in Maryland erupted, pitting deep-pocketed and competing casino companies against one another.

• Baltimore County

St. James Academy students tune in to new radio show

St. James Academy's new radio station SJATV-Radio gives students a chance to learn producting, announcing, and broadcasting with daily morning radio show.

• Sports

Raven Matt Birk joins fight against same-sex marriage

Ravens center Matt Birk is expected to cut a video this week opposing Maryland's new same-sex marriage law, making him the second Baltimore football player to take a stand on the referendum.

• Features

Maryland meets New York at Fashion Week

From designers to models, talent with ties to Maryland make names for themselves in New York

• Elections

Howard officials headline workshops at MACo conference

Last week, at the annual Maryland Association of Counties summer conference in Ocean City, some of the county's top officials, including County Executive Ken Ulman, Police Chief Bill McMahon and Budget Administrator Ray Wacks, got the chance to share some of the things they've done in Howard with other county leaders.

• Latest

Sinclair, Dish Network reach retransmission pact in principle

Sinclair Broadcast Group and the Dish Network reach a retransmission agreement in principle.

• Media Industry

Agreement between Sinclair, Dish Network set to expire

Hunt Valley-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. said Monday it is continuing to negotiate with Dish Network over a soon-to-expire agreement that allows the satellite TV provider to carry dozens of Sinclair-owned television stations.

• Michael Phelps

What Michael Phelps can learn from Cal Ripken's example

Cal Ripken has crafted a successful and diverse post-baseball career

• Baltimore City

Rawlings-Blake's family, aides get tickets to 1st Mariner shows

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's top aides and relatives routinely received free tickets to performances at Baltimore's First Mariner Arena, including popular concerts such as Rihanna, Sade and Jay-Z, public records show.

• Restaurant and Catering Industry

Baltimore's marina king, a champion of the waterfront

Marina magnate Dan Naor, 47, has plenty of ideas to make the Inner Harbor a cleaner, more stimulating place to visit and live.

• Media Industry

Political advertising boosts Sinclair earnings

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. saw its second-quarter income jump 61 percent and raised its quarterly dividend as political advertising far exceeded company expectations, the Hunt Valley broadcaster said Wednesday.

• Media Industry

Political advertising boosts Sinclair earnings

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. saw its second-quarter income jump 61 percent and raised its quarterly dividend as political advertising far exceeded company expectations, the Hunt Valley broadcaster said Wednesday.

• Media Industry

Sinclair will buy six TV stations for $412.5 million

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. announced an agreement Thursday to buy six television stations from Kansas City, Mo.-based Newport Television for $412.5 million.

• Business

Bankruptcy judge says he will approve Tribune Co. restructuring

The federal judge in Tribune Co.'s long-running bankruptcy case said in a memorandum Friday that he would approve a reorganization plan proposed by the company and its largest creditors, overruling objections brought by numerous parties.

• Artists

With bike and GPS, Canton man makes art

Using a global positioning system tracking application on his cell phone, Michael Wallace makes virtual drawings that are superimposed on maps of Baltimore streets

• Politics

Supporters of gambling expansion take to the airwaves

Days after political talks on expanding gambling in Maryland collapsed, a group pushing for a casino at National Harbor has taken its case to the public by buying television ads in the Baltimore market and staging a rally in Annapolis.

• Opinion

Arsenio Hall returning to late-night TV next fall

Arsenio Hall is returning to late-night TV starting next fall, CBS Television Distribution announced Monday.

• Obituaries

Ralph Warren Hills, long-time television producer for WBAL-TV

Ralph Warren Hills, a director at a Baltimore television station who helped shape what thousands of people viewed over four decades, died Thursday from complications of Parkinson's disease at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was 73.

• Fox Entertainment Group

Sinclair renews Fox affiliations, has option to buy local station

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. has reached an agreement that will renew Fox Broadcasting Co.'s affiliations with 19 of Sinclair's television stations while allowing Sinclair to purchase a Fox-owned station in Baltimore.

• News

Police cancel TV show after station fails to turn in suspect

Baltimore police promptly canceled a popular show on Fox 45 called Fugitive Files after the station failed to notify police that a wanted felon had come into their studios for an interview.

• Sports

Kentucky Derby champ I'll Have Another gets warm welcome at Pimlico

Kentucky Derby champ I'll Have Another gets warm welcome at Pimlico. To avoid attention, horse won't stay in the typical stall for Derby winners.

• Business

Sinclair Broadcast profit climbs on robust ad market

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. said Wednesday that its profit nearly doubled in the first quarter, fueled by higher sales of political and other ads and the acquisition of several new stations.

• News

Video of man beaten, stripped prompting anger on Internet

There can, in fact, be a corrective mechanism when it comes to the mob mentality of the Internet.

• Jobs and Workplace

Harford government employees collect 8 tons of food for Harvest for the Hungry

Harford County government employees collected more than eight tons of food to help less fortunate residents of the county and the region in conjunction with the annual Harvest for the Hungry campaign.

• Arts and Culture

White Hall man says he'll distribute old library books to avoid having them discarded

Hereford: Two weeks after finding what de deemed usable books in a trash bin behind Hereford Library White Hall man David Boyd volunteers to distribute any books that would otherwise be thrown away or recycled.

• Latest

Boys, 12 and 13, killed girl with rifle, police say

A 13-year-old girl who was found slain Sunday evening in East Baltimore's Darley Park neighborhood had been shot and a neighborhood youth is being questioned, her parents told The Baltimore Sun.

• Arts and Culture

White Hall man finds dozens of children's books in trash behind Hereford Library

Hereford: White Hall man upset after finding 171 of what he deemed usable children's books in trash bin behind Hereford Library. Baltimore County Library spokesman says it is a "one-time mistake."

• Opinion

Daily Download: A guide through the fog of online information

Site designed to help news consumers find trustworthy data and analysis

• Baltimore City

Boston mayor had defused racial tensions

The death late last month of Boston Mayor Kevin H. White who steered the city through the storm caused by court-ordered school desegregation is also credited with giving political access to blacks, women and gays.

• Laurel Leader

Investigation continues into animal deaths

No charges have been filed yet against the woman police say was the primary caretaker of the 40 dead animals pulled last week from an east Columbia home

• Sports

MASN or not, Bordick likely to have expanded role with Orioles

MASN or not, Mike Bordick is likely to have an expanded role with the Orioles.

• Music

Clarksville: River Hill High winter band concert is set for Jan. 13

Clarksville: You are invited to join friends and neighbors for the River Hill High School Winter Band Concert this Friday night, Jan. 13, at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium.