Gambling, soon to become Maryland’s core industry, has already won a major convert – Gov. Martin O’Malley. Appropriately skeptical of relying on games of chance to finance government, the governor has recently become the most visible advocate for more of ...

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NEW YORK — A toy company is suing Lady Gaga for more than $10 million, claiming the pop star sabotaged a deal to make a doll in her likeness that would play snippets of her music. In a suit filed ...

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Ships set sale in city As the nearly 40 tall ships and naval vessels that filled Baltimore’s harbor for the last week departed earlier this week, area businesses continued to have something to celebrate: a boost to their bottom lines. ...

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THURMONT — The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is offering the town of Thurmont $1.4 million for about 400 acres of land it owns. The Frederick News Post reports that a meeting will be held July 17 to discuss the ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google is escalating its rivalry with Microsoft with the purchase of Quickoffice, the maker of a widely used mobile application for working on documents created in Microsoft’s programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. The deal announced ...

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NEW ORLEANS — Jury selection has begun in a legal fight between two Hollywood stars over investments in a device used to try to clean up BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In his lawsuit, actor Stephen ...

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For the Atlantic Coast Conference, more teams and more games means a lot more TV money. The ACC and ESPN have extended their television deal through the 2026-27 season. A person familiar with the agreement told The Associated Press that ...

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Bucking a national trend, Maryland mergers and acquisitions rose almost 25 percent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the last quarter of 2011, with the increase largely driven by the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical sector. According to data ...

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SXC Health Solutions Corp. plans to buy fellow pharmacy benefits manger Catalyst Health Solutions Inc. in a deal worth more than $4 billion, less than a month after competitor Express Scripts Inc. closed a $29.1 billion acquisition. SXC Health said ...

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Robert L. Johnson, chairman of the Bethesda-based RLJ Cos. and founder of Black Entertainment Television, announced plans for a subsidiary to acquire Image Entertainment Inc., of Chatsworth, Calif., and Silver Spring-based Acorn Media Group Inc. to create RLJ Entertainment Inc., ...

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