Firm to pay $25,000 penalty fine for telemarketing calls

A Linthicum contractor has agreed to pay a $25,000 penalty to settle allegations it made illegal telemarketing calls to more than 120 people.

Chesapeake Window and Building Inc., which did not admit wrongdoing, also agreed not to call people in the national do-not-call registry and pay $5,000 for the state Attorney General's Office's costs, officials said Friday.

The complaint against Chesapeake is the only one the Attorney General's Office has filed under a new law passed last year that allows the state to enforce the do-not-call registry.

"We are pleased that Chesapeake Window has agreed to stop calling consumers who...