“The thrill of victory … and the agony of defeat” is a phrase typically applied to traditional sporting events. But on Wednesday its spirit was most readily apparent in the basement of a building on the campus of the Johns ...

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Mechanical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University spent the past several weeks building devices out of mouse traps, rubber bands and other items. Their goal was to deliver a credit card past obstacles to the finish line using no batteries.

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A former Baltimore County Public Schools custodian was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the school system over a seven-year period. Barry L. Troxell, 52, also was sentenced to five years’ ...

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State auditors are asking the attorney general’s office to consider criminal prosecution of a management employee of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services who used his government credit card to spend $56,303 on a vendor he had a ...

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NEW YORK — The amount consumers owed on their credit cards dropped to its lowest level in eight years, as cardholders continued to pay off balances in the uncertain economy. The average combined debt for bank-issued credit cards — those ...

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