CHICAGO — Tribune Co. has selected the publisher of its largest newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, to be its CEO as it tries to end nearly 2½ years in bankruptcy protection. Eddy Hartenstein, the Times’ publisher since 2008, was named ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — An attorney for billionaire developer Sam Zell, who engineered a buyout that left Tribune Co. saddled with debt, says proposals to reorganize the media company’s finances aren’t fair to his client. Attorney David Bradford says the proposals ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge has resumed a hearing to determine whether he should approve Tribune Co.’s proposed reorganization plan. Tribune owns the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, other newspapers and several radio and TV stations. It sought ...

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WILMINGTON, Del.— Attorneys for Tribune Co. and a rival group of creditors argued the merits of their competing reorganization plans for the media conglomerate Monday before a Delaware bankruptcy judge who must decide whether either one passes muster. Judge Kevin ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley met again with officials of French utility Electricite de France SA over stalled plans for a third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland. Constellation Energy Group Inc. announced last year ...

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Still wish you were on vacation? Most of your co-workers out for week? Here’s some “work” you can do to pass the time: The strange (and sad) story of Ravens rookie Sergio Kindle takes another wrong turn. Morris L. Cohen, ...

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Most of us basketball fans know Pat Riley as the former head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks and Miami Heat. Think Armani suits, hair gel, “Showtime” and a decidedly less elegant brand of hoops once he ...

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Sun staffer’s new role David B. Nitkin, a longtime reporter and editor at the Baltimore Sun, has been hired as Howard County’s director of policy and legislative affairs, effective in January, County Executive Ken Ulman announced. In other executive changes ...

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The Sun’s Jay Hancock got well-deserved props in the Twitterverse Tuesday for his column on the latest in the St. Joseph Medical Center stent investigation (including praise from an old Daily Record/Maryland Business friend now at the Wall Street Journal). ...

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Still upset about last night’s game? Just getting to work now because of last night’s game? Here are some links to take your mind off it. A former Baltimore County public defender starts a law firm in Annapolis focusing on ...

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