GRANTSVILLE – It’s early May, and the tulips are out, but spring has yet to arrive in full bloom in Garrett County

BALTIMORE – After 55 years of renting pricey office space in Manhattan, Jonathan Frerichs says he’s glad his organization settled on a permanent headquarters overlooking Baltimore’s famed Inner Harbor

WASHINGTON – Cheaper property, a better quality of life and proximity to Washington helped lure Lutheran World Relief and its 40 employees to Baltimore after 55 years in Manhattan

WASHINGTON – In her 15 years in the auto loan business, Betty Alexander saw plenty of people go on spending binges only to declare bankruptcy to avoid paying their bills

WASHINGTON – Maryland has the second-highest percentage of women-owned businesses in the nation, according to new Census Bureau data, many of them new, small companies like Pam Young’s Eye of the Needle Embroidery

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has ruled that a Prince George’s County police officer did not use excessive force when he shot an unarmed man, because the officer believed that the man was going for a gun

WASHINGTON – African Americans own about one of eight businesses in Maryland, the highest percentage among the nation’s 50 states, according to the Census Bureau

GREENBELT – For the court clerks who handle bankruptcy paperwork, the sound of changing bankruptcy law is the distinctive “thump-thump” from office time-stamp machines

WASHINGTON – The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is reviewing complaints that a Washington Post Co

WASHINGTON – Maryland Sen