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Maryland is delivering more than $600,000 in COVID-19 relief funds to nonprofits promoting heritage tourism in the state. The Maryland Heritage Areas Authority said Friday it is furnishing grants to 59 organizations supporting tourism in the state’s 13 Certified Heritage ...

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The Langston Hughes Center in Baltimore continues to serve the community through the COVID-19 pandemic with the distribution of free food every Tuesday and Friday at 2 p.m. as well as meal delivery throughout the week. The center, at 5011 ...

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Only 10 percent of investors in Maryland’s cannabis industry are people of color, according to data from the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission. That figure illustrates the extent to which minorities are excluded from participation in Maryland’s medical cannabis industry, critics ...

Chesapeake City-based auctioneers Alexander Historical Auctions, known internationally for its military sales, will be offering some of the most important surrender documents of World War II in its June 9 “No Surrender to Coronavirus” live auction. The sale has 60 important pieces, almost all ...

Bethesda-based commercial real estate finance company Walker & Dunlop Inc. announced Friday it completed the sale and structured $44.253 million in financing for the Century New Holland, a resort-style apartment community in Gainesville, the primary business center in Georgia. The assignment was completed on behalf ...

Building on the company’s comprehensive efforts to help slow the spread of the virus, CVS Health expanded its COVID-19 testing program Friday with the addition of 13 additional test sites at select CVS Pharmacy drive-thru locations across Maryland. The additional sites ...

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced Friday the launching of two Maryland Women’s Business Centers, hosted by Morgan State University in Baltimore and Maryland Capital Enterprises in Salisbury. These new centers will carry out the mission of helping women-owned small businesses start, grow, and expand their businesses and reflects the ...

U.S. consumer spending plunged by a record-shattering 13.6% in April as the viral pandemic shuttered businesses, forced millions of layoffs and sent the economy into a deep recession.

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Restrictions placed on businesses in Baltimore due to the COVID-19 pandemic continue to ease, and city-based enterprises hope better days lie ahead. Those aspirations for robust reservations and ringing cash registers, however, still must overcome a habitual challenge to city ...

WASHINGTON — Democrats on Thursday pulled legislation from the House floor to extend FBI surveillance authorities after President Donald Trump and Republicans turned against the measure and ensured its defeat. The House later voted 284-122 to officially start those negotiations. ...