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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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

In summer 2007, a complicated deal to buy Tribune Co. and take it private reflected all the dangers of an easy-money era when caution was pushed aside.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sinclair has emerged from a difficult economy in a better spot than many of its broadcast competitors.

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.

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.

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."

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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.

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