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Nov 2, 2016

Under Armour is shipping up to Boston

Under Armour is about to become “Unduh Ahmah.” With New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady already on its endorsement roster, Under Armour is taking another step into the hearts of Boston sports fans by opening a new Brand House in the city, the largest store opening for the Baltimore sports apparel maker this year. The […]

Dec 18, 2013

In-House Interrogatory

Legal education is blending with the in-house world up North.

Sep 18, 2013

TA Associates buys majority stake in Bethesda-based Arxan

TA Associates, a Boston-based global growth private equity firm, announced it has completed a majority investment in Arxan Technologies Inc., of Bethesda, a provider of software security products.

Aug 12, 2013

‘Whitey’ Bulger guilty of gangland killings

BOSTON — James “Whitey” Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant. Bulger, 83, stood silently and showed no reaction upon hearing the […]

Jul 16, 2013

Johns Hopkins regains top ranking from U.S. News

Johns Hopkins Hospital has regained its place atop U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s best hospitals, one year after its 21-year stint at the top of the rakings was broken. Last year, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston won the top spot. Massachusetts General was ranked second in the 2013 rankings, which […]

Jun 5, 2013

Serving up a good cause

California Pizza Kitchens in Annapolis, Hunt Valley and across Maryland and the U.S. are raising money for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and their families.

May 8, 2013

Maryland’s Cordish proposes slot parlor west of Boston

BOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Another company has entered the race to open a slot parlor in Massachusetts. Officials with The Cordish Companies, based in Baltimore, announced Tuesday that they want to build a $200 million hotel and gambling facility just off Interstate 495 in Boxborough, about 25 miles northwest of Boston. The plan calls for Cordish […]

Apr 16, 2013

Baltimore area teacher injured at Boston marathon

A Baltimore area pre-school teacher is among the more than 170 who were injured in explosions at the Boston Marathon. A chaplain at the Trinity Episcopal Children’s Center in Towson says 29-year-old Erika Brannock suffered two broken legs in the explosions Monday near the finish line of the race. Chaplain Kathleen Capcara says the children’s […]

Jan 29, 2013

Boston College asks court to toss IRA tapes ruling

BOSTON — Boston College wants a federal appeals court to throw out a ruling that orders the college to turn over audiotaped interviews with former members of the Irish Republican Army, citing the death of a key figure in the legal battle. In a motion filed Monday with the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, […]

Jan 28, 2013

Arcade video shooting games pulled after massacres

BOSTON — It was 10 days after a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators in Newtown, Conn., when Tracey Hyams and her family came upon a teenager firing a lifelike toy rifle on a video game at a Massachusetts highway rest stop. As Hyams, her husband and their 12-year-old son walked by, they could […]

Aug 27, 2012

A decent cup of coffee but no souvenir at the birthplace of Dunkin’

I drove more than 400 miles for a coffee mug last weekend, and came away with a cup of coffee I've sipped a hundred times before.

Jul 18, 2012

New welfare restrictions target booze, tattoos

BOSTON — Taking aim at what they call an abuse of the taxpayers’ money, a growing number of states are blocking welfare recipients from spending their benefits on booze, cigarettes, lottery tickets, casino gambling, tattoos and strippers. “If you’re not abusing the program, then you should really have no problem with these reforms,” said state […]

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