Let’s not panic. We all know that Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder bread and the rest of Hostess Brands’ oddly everlasting foods aren’t going away any time soon, even if the food culture that created them is gasping its last. Yes, ...

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Maryland health officials have closed a cosmetic surgery center after three patients who had liposuction developed severe infections, including one who subsequently died. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Wednesday ordered the closure of Monarch Med Spa ...

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HAGERSTOWN — Ice cream production has ended at a Hagerstown plant that supplied Good Humor bars and other frozen goodies for nearly 30 years. The president of the United Steelworkers local that represents 391 plant workers said Thursday that the ...

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Want to close your bank account? It could cost you as much as $55. In a survey of the practices of the 10 largest banks in the country — including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank and Wells Fargo — ...

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WASHINGTON — The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help. At a news briefing, ...

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HAGERSTOWN — The Unilever ice cream plant in Hagerstown will close at the end of July, leaving about 390 employees without jobs. Company spokesman Jeff Graubard says the employees were told in 2009 about plans to close the plant. Graubard ...

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The process of buying or selling a home has many steps. But if everything proceeds according to plan, it will all culminate in settlement (sometimes called a closing) and the transfer of ownership will take place with the final stroke ...

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Dozens of shoppers at the Giant Food store in the Rotunda shopping center filled their baskets with groceries Wednesday morning, checked out and then bid farewell to the supermarket that had been a mainstay in the North Baltimore community for ...

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The U.S. magistrate judge’s chambers at the Maude R. Toulson Federal Building in Salisbury is among the 10 court sites most likely to face closure as the federal government looks for ways to cut costs, according to documents obtained by ...

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When Rick Warren and his father opened Warren’s Bait Box in 1970, Rick was only 19. Now on the cusp of 60, Warren has spent most of his adult life at the small concrete building off Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard in ...

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