In a grim turn of events for the nearly 2,000 workers at the Sparrows Point steel mill, the reported high bidder for its assets is a well-known, international company that specializes in auctioning off equipment at closed plants.

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The auction of RG Steel’s plants, including the historic Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County, has been postponed until next week, union officials wrote in an email to membership Tuesday, according to a local news blog.

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WASHINGTON — The government has opened a program for investors to buy troubled mortgages in hard-hit areas and work out terms with homeowners in an effort to avoid foreclosures. The government on Wednesday announced the planned sale of about 3,500 ...

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DEFIANCE, Ohio — Karl Kissner picked up a soot-covered cardboard box that had been under a wooden dollhouse in his grandfather’s attic. Taking a look inside, he saw hundreds of baseball cards bundled with twine. They were smaller than the ...

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WASHINGTON — George Washington’s 223-year-old copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights are expected to go for bids of $2 million to $3 million at auction next week. The documents are bound in a book that contains notes in ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — The Roomstore Inc. plans to sell its assets at an auction, including the inventory at its stores. The Goochland County-based retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last December. It has asked a federal Bankruptcy Court judge ...

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Secured lenders must be allowed to credit-bid at an auction that would extinguish their interest in the collateral as part of a debtor’s Chapter 11 cramdown plan, the Supreme Court has ruled. The case involved a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing ...

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WASHINGTON — The widow of TV producer Aaron Spelling is suing a Maryland auction house that sold part of her extensive collection of antique dolls, claiming it owes her money and failed to return unsold items. Candy Spelling filed the ...

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Click here to see properties with delinquent taxes and municipal liens, located in Baltimore City, that are scheduled for the sealed bid tax sale that will be held on May 21, 2012. Bidding will be conducted via an internet-based online sealed ...

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High court rules against Md. man A former court employee’s $1 million lawsuit has ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that states cannot be sued under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act’s self-care provision. Daniel Coleman, once the ...

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