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The state's child support system needs to be fixed so that parents aren't punished when they can't afford child support.

Find the holiday shipping deadlines for the U.S. Postal Service, Amazon, FedEx and UPS.

In 1996, the Orioles’ former manager Earl Weaver, above, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. During his 17 years managing the team, Weaver led the team

Former NFL linebacker Aaron Maybin tweeted a video from a Baltimore school building and became a prominent figure in the drama over heating malfunctions and other poor conditions at many city schools.

From agriculture and manufacturing to military contracting and natural gas production, Maryland's economy is diverse.

Walmart trains employees for holidays using virtual reality

Former Orioles Ross Grimsley and Tippy Martinez stayed in the Baltimore area after their professional baseball playing days ended three decades ago to build lives beyond baseball

We've got the round-up of all of the send-by dates to get your mail out by the holidays.

Latest Forever Stamp is a reminder that Congress has failed to give U.S. Postal Service a chance to succeed

Heavy Seas brewery employs 45 people and about a half-dozen of them are from the Catonsville, Arbutus or Halethorpe areas. Three of them -- the brewing team chief, the warehouse manager, and the production manager -- discuss their jobs at the brewery.

In 1968, when President Lyndon Johnson ordered a halt to bombing North Vietnam and a new house averaged $15,000, Laurel had a lot of things going for it. However, the town lacked a place where people could get trophies and plaques built and engraved to honor individual and group efforts. That same year, the husband and wife team of Don and Dottie Ault set out to change all that when they opened Dottie's Trophies.

Though FedEx and UPS started strong the week before Christmas, bad weather in parts of the U.S. slowed delivery through the networks, according to data released this week by ShipMatrix Inc.

Some post offices opened for four hours Sunday as the U.S. Postal Service readies for the holiday rush — it predicts Monday will be its busiest day of the season.

The former manager of the Clinton administration's effort to reinvent government is calling on Congress to break up the U.S. Postal Service into two separate organizations — one public and one private.

Most people go the St. Patrick's Day celebration at Shannon's Pub and Grille in Baltimore Highlands for the food, drinks and people, but there is one main attraction each year: the bagpipe player.

Online holiday sales were expected to boost shipments to peak levels Monday for both FedEx Corp. and U.S. Postal Service, while UPS is looking for record-breaking business the Monday before Christmas.

In a case that could have a profound impact on the rights of pregnant employees, the Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled over whether a Maryland UPS driver faced discrimination when she was asked to leave her job because her pregnancy prevented her from lifting heavy packages.

On Dec. 3, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Young v. United Parcel Service, a case in which an employer was permitted to suspend without pay or insurance a pregnant employee because she could not lift more that 20 pounds. Ms. Young's job for UPS was collecting and delivering letters and packages sent by air. Her typical route covered Annapolis, Davidsonville and Calvert County. In suspending her, UPS explained that company policy required all employees to be able to lift 70 pounds unless they

Three-year-old junk-hauling company in Baltimore County plans to venture out into franchising.

Three new stores are coming to Ellicott City's Turf Valley Towne Square, developer Greenberg Gibbons announced Friday.

Alaric I. "Al" Phillips, a counselor who was an outreach and volunteer coordinator for a Baltimore men's shelter, died Sept. 2 at his West Ostend Street home of a heart attack. He was 52.

The rotten apples among Baltimore's finest

VSPOne expects growth at its new eyeglass manufacturing facility in Halethorpe — including orders related to Google Glass. The company anticipates that the local site will make prescription lenses for the product after it launches sometime this year.

The Boy Scouts of America's ban on gay leaders is losing the organization more money -- this time from Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin.

Online retailer Amazon has partnered with the U.S. Postal Service to provide Sunday package delivery at no extra cost in two key cities, and plans to expand the program dramatically in the next year.

As long as Baltimore only supports Democrats, politicians have little incentive to cater to the city

The family of a detective sergeant at the Maryland State Police Bel Air Barrack went to Oklahoma this past weekend to deliver some 50,000 books that 8-year-old Lauren DeCourcey helped collect for victims of the May tornado.

Thousands of books have been donated over the past several weeks at the Maryland State Police Bel Air Barrack that will be given to school libraries in Moore, Okla., that was devastated by a tornado last spring.

James A. Buck gladly accepted the package at his Parkville office from the delivery man wearing a UPS uniform. But minutes later, police swooped in to arrest Buck, 57, and seized the parcel, which had contained three pounds of marijuana he sent to himself from California, according to court records.

Alarm malfunction

Karen M. Liss Levin, a senior engineer for United Parcel Service who was also an accomplished pianist, died July 3 of cancer at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 54.

Donna Bethea, a health care analyst and longtime Northwest Baltimore resident, died Tuesday of leukemia at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 44.

Last month, Jason Toraldo started Pork N' Pine, a combination of Christmas trees and sliced meat that taps into a niche market Baltimore never knew it had.