Companies and Corporations

Pages from the Past: Catonsville area women both have limbs amputated after elevator accident

2012-05-16 00:00:00

An article in the May 14, 1937, edition of The Catonsville Herald and Baltimore Countian reported on a mishap in an elevator in a Baltimore Hotel that resulted in severe injuries to two area women. As a result of an elevator accident at the Belvedere...

The Black Keys, a rock band thriving in a world of pop

2012-05-15 15:57:37

"Rock 'n' roll will never die," sang Neil Young in 1979. Lately, though, it seems stuck in a coma. How else to describe the sad state of rock? The Billboard charts are filled with pop acts, rappers and country singers. Even sugary boy-bands have re-...

Naval Academy midshipmen face tough endurance training in Sea Trials

2012-05-15 16:29:22

They crawled through muddy trenches. They did sit-ups in the Severn River. They performed a mock evacuation of an injured pilot. And they kept on going. Midshipmen completing their first year at the Naval Academy endured the rigorous 14-hour Sea Trials...

Sinclair renews Fox affiliations, has option to buy local station

2012-05-15 16:44:00

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. will renew Fox Broadcasting Co. affiliations with 19 of its television stations in an agreement that also allows Sinclair to purchase a Fox-owned station in Baltimore. Under the agreement with Fox, Sinclair has the option to...

Exelon, Constellation donate $1.8M to Md. Science Center

2012-05-15 13:21:00

Exelon Corp. and Constellation have donated $1.8 million for a new energy exhibit at the Maryland Science Center, the first public display of their charitable commitment to the city and state since the merger between the energy giants closed in March, the...

Attachment legislating: Corporate cash and the GOP

2012-05-15 10:08:00

If money is the mother's milk of politics, then America's big corporations are Big Mama, and Big Baby is the Republican Party suckling at the enormous bosom of business. Democrats, meanwhile, are abandoned brats scrounging for nourishment wherever they...

Future of Wegmans liquor store in limbo

2012-05-15 07:29:00

The proposed liquor store adjoining the new Wegmans in Columbia wouldn't be the only such store owned by someone related to executives or employees of the supermarket chain. But this shop would be different, opponents say, because not only would the...

Editorial: Answers, please

2012-05-15 12:13:00

Residents of the Fallston area, and those in Baltimore County for that matter, have every reason to question why Columbia Gas Transmission is in such a hurry and has such a dire need to construct a parallel natural gas pipeline from Owings Mills in...

Beer, baseball and Baltimore

2012-05-15 09:09:00

This is a tale about Baltimore beer barons, the owner of the Washington Senators, a silver bullet, and how the Orioles got to Baltimore. Now, with the O's generating a buzz as they fight for first place in the American League East and prepare to meet...

Baltimore firm develops automatic rifle for military, SWAT

2012-05-14 17:07:00

The Army's next-generation carbine may come out of a Highlandtown machine shop best known for making high-volume bottling equipment for major drink makers. Adcor Industries Inc. learned this month that it was among a handful of weapons makers selected to...

Edwin Charles Saiontz

2012-05-14 00:00:00

Edwin Charles Saiontz, a highly-regarded health care expert and co-founder of SHR Associates Inc., died Thursday of multiple organ failure at his Boynton Beach, Fla., home. The longtime Pikesville resident was 77. The son of a lawyer and a homemaker,...

Millennial Media today to release first quarterly financial results since IPO

2012-05-14 07:15:00

Millennial Media Inc., which operates one of the largest mobile ad networks, is expected to release financial results for its first quarter of 2012 -- the first quarterly report from the company since going public on March 29. The release will come after...

Garner has handled complex and emergency litigation in a variety of federal and state courts throughout the United States. He has special expertise in litigating corporate governance and transactional issues in the context of corporate restructuring/bankruptcy cases.

2012-05-14 00:00:00

The world's biggest futures exchange company has its headquarters in Chicago , but its executive chairman, Terry Duffy, expressed concerns on Wednesday about Illinois ' corporate tax rate and said it might move somewhere else. CME Group has other worries, as well -- since the beginning of the

2012-05-10 12:34:00

Supporters cheer during the plenary session to vote a bill nationalizing Argentine YPF oil company on May 3, 2012 in Buenos Aires. The Argentine Congress Thursday voted the expropriation of the 51% of the bonds of YPF, the country's largest oil company, from Spanish company Repsol.

2012-05-03 18:50:00