The designation means farmers eligible for emergenc...

A Severna Park family is helping to market Havana Road Artisanal Foods, a line of Cuban cuisine that recently hit the shelves at Whole Foods stores in Annapolis, Mt. Washington and Harbor East in Baltimore.

Sabine Simmons, who serves as the company's vice president of operations, said she is introducing the flavorful ...

By March, officials said it would wrap in June. June became August, and so on.

Now, in mid-November, business owners along Camp Meade Road in Linthicum are wondering why replacing an aging sewer main has taken more than a year.

"Nobody knows what's going on," said Carmelo Fertitta, owner of Squisito Too in the Shipley-Linthicum Shopping Center. "I tried to call the st...

The Maryland Marine Contractors Association is continuing lobbying efforts it began last year to require the Maryland Department of the Environment to license and regulate people and firms that provide or solicit marine contracting services in the state.

On average, wetland and waterway ...

Homebuyers snapped up 502 homes in the county last month, up from 348 in October 2008, according to the latest report from Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. These figures also include homes sold in Annapolis.

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"I'm in a field that's mostly men, so I don't get the same respect," she said. "When I would go to meetings to meet with construction people, they would just ignore me."

The Pasadena woman had to be persistent in her mission, constantly networking and talking to those in the r...

Officials from the Annapolis and Newport tourism bureaus say they're exploring a partnership to share sales leads, split the cost of sales missions and pool resources for joint advertising in trade publications.

"It's a very ...

ANNAPOLIS - Annapolis biodefense firm PharmAthene reported $6.8 million in revenue during the third quarter, down from $10.7 million during the same period last year.

The company said its net loss during the third quarter was $14 million, or 50 cents per share, compared to $4.3 million or 20 cents per share during the same period of 2008.

PharmAthene estimates that at its existing sources of c...

The Dell Mini 3, a keyboardless touch-screen phone that runs Google Inc.'s Android operating system, will also be available in Brazil later this year. The computer maker, based in Round Rock, Texas, would not say when the phone would reach the U.S.

Friday's...

Office supplies chain Staples Inc. this week used social media to advertise price cuts of nearly 50 percent for Nov. 27 on certain laptops, GPS devices and computer monitors, and still other merchants are expected to follow suit.

Dan de Grandpre, editor-in-chief of dealnews.com, said retailers are smart to use social n...

NEW YORK (AP) - E-mail has taken a full circle.

Over the years, Web-based e-mail services have gotten much better, sporting many features once available only with the e-mail programs that reside on the computer desktop.

Now, those desktop programs are borrowing from their Web-based counterparts, such as Google Inc.'s Gmail.

The new version of Mozilla's Thunde...

Donald Broglie said he closed the restaurant because it was "cheaper to pick up my stove" and move to a new spot instead of extending his lease at Ferry Point Marina.

Broglie said he wants to buy a piece of property in the are...

Joe Weinberg, a managing partner with the Baltimore developer, said the company expects to fill 1,500 permanent jobs and 2,500 temporary construction jobs on the project. Cordish hopes to hire a majority of thos...

Traditionally, employment picks up in the month of November because of the many stores and restaurants that need extra staffing to cope with the onslaught of Christmas, Hanukkah an...