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Shoppers around Maryland looking for deals flocked to stores that opened early to kick off the Christmas shopping season.
In Salisbury, the Toys ‘R Us had one of the the earliest openings and its midnight hours attracted a line of shoppers that wrapped around the building.
Nearly 100 ...
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The city of Cumberland has contracted with a Frederick-based developer to find tenants for the vacant Memorial Hospital building.
The mayor and City Council on Tuesday authorized Ridgecrest Investments Inc. to manage the property for 10 years.
Ridgecrest official John Laughlin says he ...
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Health care
Best Buy Co., the Minnesota-based consumer electronics chain, has signed a lease for a 40,000-square-foot store formerly occupied by a Mars supermarket at the Chesapeake Square shopping center on Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie.
Renovations have begun, and the store is expected to open in ...
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Architecture
Kann Partners, formerly known as Kann & Associates, of Baltimore, has made its chief operating officer, Chris Lesjak, an associate principal, and hired Katelin Crook as marketing director.
Awards
Five Maryland hospitals recently received the Medal of Honor for Organ Donation ...
Other
St. Joseph Medical Center, of Towson, announced that it has been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals for Cardiovascular Care for 2009 by Thomson Reuters, in the category of community hospital.
St. Joseph said it is the only hospital in Maryland that received a place on the Top ...
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Health care
A quarter-century ago, the University of Maryland Medical System set out on a new path —privatization. There was little in the way of a road map to show the way other than the University of Florida’s hospital, which had gone private in the 1970s.
The path wasn’t always easy. Facilities were ...
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Health care
A Richmond-based developer has landed Sonesta Hotels as the brand-name operator for 301 N. Charles St., a hotel conversion project that has been stalled for more than a year while seeking financing.
Lifestyle Hospitality Group has been shopping for a hotel operator for the project since at ...
Congress
Charles Schumer
Same-sex marriage advances in one region, then retreats in another, making the United States a two-nation nation on this issue — now and for years to come. Advocates on both sides are in the majority somewhere, but in the minority somewhere else.
That’s why two church-state encounters this ...
Congress
Charles Crain
United States
Local government land-use plans rarely have more than a 20-year planning horizon, which means they are essentially planning for the current generation and the next. Some development visionaries are now promoting the idea that we should really be planning for the next hundred years. Taking on a ...
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MONDAY
City Council to meet
The Baltimore City Council will meet. A draft agenda will be posted Friday afternoon on the council’s Web site, www.baltimorecitycouncil.com.
Event time: 5 p.m.
Address: City Hall, 4th floor, 100 N. Holliday St., Baltimore
TUESDAY
Board of Public Works meeting
The ...
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New proposals for old theater
Four local developers and businesses have proposed new uses for the Senator Theatre, ranging from vaudeville-style shows to a home for public radio. The Baltimore Development Corp. announced the proposals Monday. The suggestions include keeping it as a movie theater ...
Congress
James Inhofe
As we contemplate the meaning of the first criminal trial against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, at least three important lessons have been made clear and none is related to the trial itself.
Sure, we can ask questions about the overall motives and specific trial objectives of the state ...
Other
Fred Thompson
At about 4:49 p.m., the jury for Mayor Sheila Dixon's trial was dismissed for the weekend.
Other
Bud Day
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — There could be less jingle in the Salvation’s Army’s hallmark red kettles this season. The charity is testing kettles that take debit and credit cards.
The growth of so-called “plastic kettles” comes as fewer shoppers carry cash. Bell ringers ...
Other
U.S. Army
What would the holidays be without bickering between siblings? AT&T and Verizon are swamping TV with ads attacking facets of each other’s wireless networks. While the ads stick fairly close to the truth, there’s a lot they don’t say.
AT&T Inc. has been running ads with ...
Other
1st Mariner Bank will close its 300 N. Charles St. branch on Feb. 15 because the location did not meet company standards.
“Like all financial institutions, periodically we review performance of all of our branches and in our review we decide if they are successful or unsuccessful, and it wasn’t ...
Other
Visiting Judge Dennis M. Sweeney has denied Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon’s motion for a mistrial, as the jury continues into their fifth day of deliberations on charges that Dixon stole or misused gift cards intended for Baltimore’s needy families.
Congress
University of Baltimore School of Law professor Jose F. Anderson has a cautionary tale for any defendant waiting on a jury as a holiday approaches.
Anderson represented Flint Gregory Hunt, whose death sentence for killing a police officer had been vacated, when Hunt was resentenced in December ...
Congress
Bud Day
A Baltimore County woman will get another chance to argue against child-visitation rights for her ex-girlfriend.
Last week, the Court of Special Appeals vacated a Baltimore County Circuit Court judge’s decision to let Larissa S. visit her ex-partner Melissa B.’s 8-year-old son.
The judge ...
Congress
One of Baltimore’s best-known minority-owned law firms is splitting up.
Michael A. Brown, majority owner of Brown & Sheehan LLP, will join Miles & Stockbridge P.C., where he practiced at the beginning of his career.
“In a way, I’m going back home,” Brown said.
He will take along two ...
