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Gift cards continue to top lists of most popular purchases this season, spurring billions in sales for merchants. And the category is growing fast, moving toward a day when some believe the plastic cards could be replaced by electronic ones

To perform a mitzvah for his Bar Mitzvah, which happened to fall during Hanukkah, Zack Lubliner donated items to the Toy Closet run by Jewish Community Services. Donating to the Toy Closet has been a traditional mitzvah for the Lubliner family during the Jewish holiday.

A few more Walmart supporters told the Harford County Council their views Tuesday night, as did a couple of opponents.

Baltimore police named a 19-year-old man on Tuesday as the suspect in an early-November Northeast Baltimore killing, warning the public that he remains on the loose, "armed and extremely dangerous."

Unemployment among those ages 16-24 is highest since World War II.

Indeed ranks top 15 retail employers

Whenever the bulldozers start plowing through farmland or forest, and the people living nearby are unaware something was in the works, it becomes a big issue in the neighborhood, albeit at a time when it's a little late in the game.

Robert Reich says paying employees better is good for everyone

Miracle on Main Streets, Baltimore's neighborhood holiday shopping campaign, kids off Wednesday

Maryland State Delegate Glen Glass (R - Harford, District 34A), announced that he continues to oppose the proposed Wal-Mart relocation at the Plumtree Road and Route 924 intersection

Cyber Monday big for online sales

National survey says 247 million shoppers made the retail rounds in person and online during Black Friday weekend, an increase of 9.2 percent over last year.

The all-important holiday season is looking brighter this year for area independent toy shops

More and more, participants in the annual day-after-Thanksgiving ritual of mass shopping are — like Townes — starting the day of. Lines for break-of-dawn deals get going early. And many of the big retailers now kick off the sales Thursday night.

Black Friday shoppers flocked to Howard County retailers late Thursday and into the wee hours of Friday morning, but by 8 a.m. the Mall in Columbia and stores like Target and Walmart were still full of shoppers wrapping up their all night shopping spree.

Small Business Saturday is just the event, say area small businesses, retailers and boutique clothing stores to bring in customers the day after Black Friday. Among them are Corradetti glass-blowing studio in the Woodberry area, which will hold a Christmas ornament making workshop for families.

Towson kicks off the holiday season with black

On a holiday morning that in bygone years meant deserted mall parking lots, crack-of-dawn consumers were lugging packages to their cars and wrestling flat-screen TVs into minivans shortly after the department store's 7 a.m. opening. Thanksgiving Day is now Black Thursday.

Route 24 opened 25 years ago from Edgewood to Bel Air

District 1 Board of Education race goes to Zabrina Epps, Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle PTSA president coordinates Thanksgiving food drive, Laurel Rotary donates dictionaries, Board of Education hosts "leadership profile" meeting for next superintendent.

Two property owners in Havre de Grace are set to get tax credits for being in designated Enterprise Zones, if the city council approves legislation it introduced Monday night.

The man police believe kidnapped Violet R. Ripken from her Aberdeen home stopped at a Middle River Walmart the day after the July abduction and may have had a brief encounter with the driver of a dark green minivan, Lt. Fred Budnick said Monday.

Responding to consumer demand, retailers have pushed up store openings to the end of Thanksgiving dinner, started online price wars in November and replaced door buster opening events with waves of sales targeting different consumers.

Organizations' wish lists for holiday season

With the holiday season upon us and with many still struggling in tough economic times, several charities in Howard County are seeking a variety of items for donation.

Below is a listing of local helping organizations seeking donations of either money or items, or both. In this season of giving and Thanksgiving, please share your blessings, by giving to those less fortunate.

The Harford County Council heard resounding support Tuesday for County Executive David Craig's proposed 4 percent merit increase for all county employees.

'Top Chef' alum Bryan Voltaggio is intent on preserving family traditions.

An unidentified man was shot early Thursday during what police said was an attempted robbery on a Walmart parking lot in Laurel.

Baltimore County police arrested a juvenile last week and charged him with second-degree assault, alleging that he threatened a security officer and waved what appeared to be a handgun in the parking lot of the Walmart in Cockeysville.

Inside linebacker Jameel McClain made a deal with Wal-Mart where in exchange for a couple of off-season appearances, they'd provide gear for Baltimore-area boys and girls.

Target opens earliest ever for Black Friday, with 9 p.m. Thanksgiving start

Walmart debates are expected to play out in communities across Maryland, as the giant retailer plans to build or relocate eight so-called supercenters in a national reshuffling of its retail footprint.

When I see all the newspaper coverage about the "No Walmart" on 924, I just laugh.

In whose best interest is it, that Walmart be allowed to move from their present location to Plumtree Road?

Roundup of harford police arrests, incidents

The town of Bel Air has submitted suggestions to the county on major intersections that should be part of the proposed Plumtree Walmart's traffic study.

One Harford County councilwoman's decision to speak out about Walmart during the heated development advisory meeting earlier this month has apparently divided the county council since then.

A roundup of police arrests and incidents

The Westminster Police Department, the Westminster Walmart and other sponsors this week officially launched the 2012 edition of the annual Shop With A Cop angel tree drive.

Harford police blotter

Bel Air and Abingdon residents continue to voice their opposition to the proposed Walmart site by sending e-mails en masse to county officials and The Aegis.

Abingdon's Box Hill South neighborhood is primed to get a 400-unit apartment complex, as well as a handful of new stores and restaurants near the Wegmans in Boulevard at Box Hill, the developer told the Abingdon Community Council on Monday.

Despite the recent posturing against the Bel Air Plumtree Walmart project by some Harford County Council members, Jim McMahan in particular, and by County Executive David Craig, who has asked Walmart to consider staying put in Abingdon, all these folks had multiple opportunities to stop the project before it ever saw the light of day — and in most instances they did just the opposite.