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Atlanta-based Spectra Metal Sales Inc. recently signed a deal to lease 18,572 square feet of warehouse space for its rain-ware products at 8601 Ritchie Drive in Capitol Heights.
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Read More »Sinclair to buy Allbritton TV stations
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. said Monday that it has agreed to buy Allbritton TV stations for $985 million. The stations include seven ABC network affiliates that cover nearly 5 percent of U.S. TV households and NewsChannel 8, a 24-hour cable ...
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Read More »Md. bonds rated AAA by Fitch Ratings
Fitch Ratings, one of the three major bond-rating services in the U.S., has assigned an AAA rating — the highest available — to two sets of bonds that the state will sell via competitive sale on July 24. To be sold are $435 million in tax-exempt bonds and $40 million in taxable bonds.
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Read More »Famous sculptor will add to Md. sculpture park
Antonio Tobias “Toby” Mendez, the sculptor who created the statues of Cal Ripken Jr. and other Orioles players at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, will be sculpting a bronze relief for the Westminster branch of the Carroll County Public Library. ...
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Read More »Md. adds 10,500 jobs in Feb.; unemployment rate down slightly
Maryland created 10,500 jobs last month, largely in the private sector, chipping away at the state’s unemployment rate, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Read More »Howard Co. is Md.’s healthiest county
For the fourth consecutive year, Howard County has been ranked as the healthiest county in Maryland, according to a report released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
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Read More »Two more life terms for ‘East Coast Rapist’
LEESBURG, Va. — A Connecticut man has received two more life sentences for the 2001 kidnapping and rape of a Leesburg woman that was one of many rapes linked to a man identified by authorities as the “East Coast Rapist.” ...
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Read More »O’Malley to push bills on weapons, school safety
ANNAPOLIS —Gov. Martin O’Malley said Tuesday he expects his administration to introduce legislation aimed at preventing catastrophic mass shootings like the one last week at a Connecticut elementary school. O’Malley said he believes “we’ve all been changed” by Friday’s shooting ...
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Read More »Maryland out in front with health exchange
Maryland has firmly established its health benefit exchange under the Affordable Care Act and has a long-term plan in place. But 40 states, including Virginia, have not passed legislation authorizing health benefit exchanges in their borders as required by the ...
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Read More »Trips out of state cost $98K for O’Malley security
ANNAPOLIS — For 26 out-of-state trips, the state of Maryland spent $98,460 on Gov. Martin O’Malley’s security detail from January until Sept. 18. The Maryland State Police released the figure at the request of a Public Information Act request by ...
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