Owners of an energy company formed in a business incubator at the University of Maryland, College Park say they are being forced to move a bulk of its operations to Florida.

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Calvert Education Services, of Baltimore, a provider of K-8 homeschooling curriculum and instructional support services, and Vschoolz Inc., of Coral Gables, Fla., an educational technology company that provides e-learning services to individual schools or school districts, announced that they have merged in order to strengthen their digital presence in the K-12 market.

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Appeals court finds "defense of necessity" doesn't apply to our four-legged friends.

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STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of murdering eight people in Miami-Dade County in the late 1970s was executed Monday night at the Florida State Prison, despite his lawyers’ pleas that he was too mentally ill to be put to ...

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Regency Centers Corp., of Jacksonville, Fla., a real estate investment trust that owns, operates and develops grocery-anchored and community shopping centers, closed on the off-market acquisition of Shoppes of Burnt Mills, a 31,316-square-foot neighborhood center in Silver Spring, for a gross purchase price of $13.6 million.

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called the killing of Trayvon Martin a “tragic, unnecessary shooting,” and said the Justice Department will follow “the facts and the law” as it reviews evidence to see whether federal criminal ...

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SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman profiled 17-year-old Trayvon Martin assuming he was up to no good, and that led to the Miami teen’s death, a prosecutor said Thursday in closing arguments of the neighborhood watch volunteer’s second-degree murder trial. “A ...

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SANFORD, Fla. — A jury of six women, five of them white and the other a minority, was picked Thursday to decide the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who says he shot an unarmed black ...

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SANFORD, Fla. — An expert hired by an Orlando newspaper testified Friday that screams for help on 911 calls don’t match neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman’s voice. Tom Owen testified on the second day of a hearing that will determine ...

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SANFORD, Florida — The former neighborhood watch leader charged with fatally shooting a Florida teenager told a judge Tuesday that he agrees with his defense attorneys’ decision not to seek an immunity hearing under the state’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense ...

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