The Daily Record (Baltimore) back issues from March 2008:
Commentary: Web Watching: Read Print an intriguing alternative to other free, online book sites
Mar 01, 2008; ... While other web-based repositories of electronic books might havethe edge in terms of sheer numbers of volumes and languagesavailable, ReadPrint.com makes up for its smaller offering byoffering a user-friendly interface that makes reading from a screenless arduous. Read Print ...
Place to Be
Mar 01, 2008 ... Ongoing Starting Feb. 2, 200 real human body specimens will unveiled inGunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS 2: The Anatomical Exhibition of RealHuman Bodies, and Maryland Science Center visitors will see a newlyadded component to this attendance-breaking exhibition: a humanbrain. The ...
Mental Hygiene Legal Service hires information officer
Mar 04, 2008; ... The Mental Hygiene Legal Service hired Lisa Malek-Renfer as aninformation officer. The Rochester ...
Maryland stem cell researchers reeling from proposed 80% fund cut
Mar 04, 2008; ... Cutting the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund by nearly 80 percentwould mean "effectively stopping the program," according to thechair of the commission that oversees it. A Maryland senate subcommittee voted Friday to cut the $23million that Gov. Martin O'Malley proposed for the ...
Germantown-based Hughes Communications Inc.'s profit doubles
Mar 04, 2008 ... Hughes Communications Inc., of Germantown, a provider ofbroadband satellite communications, said fourth-quarter earningsmore than doubled as profit at its North America operations surged.Net income rose to $19.9 million from $9.5 million a year ago. Thecompany did not provide per-share ...
Locust Point passer-by seeks $750K for crash near 'Wire' set
Mar 04, 2008; ... A Locust Point man is suing the production companies behind "TheWire" for a bicycle crash allegedly caused by a worker duringfilming of the HBO show in September 2005. David Johnson is seeking $750,000 in compensatory damages fromthe unidentified operator of a boom crane truck, The ...
Constellation Energy files federal lawsuit against Maryland
Mar 04, 2008; ... Saying a deal is a deal, two subsidiaries of Constellation EnergyGroup Inc. filed suit against the state of Maryland Monday tosustain the 1999 deregulation settlement. The suit, filed in federal court, also seeks to recover the"unconstitutional taking" of $386 million from ...
Nearly 16,000 watch bull riding at 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore
Mar 04, 2008; ... Nearly 16,000 people packed 1st Mariner Arena over the weekend towatch professional cowboys do their best to stay on top of 1,500-pound bulls with names like "Vampire," "High Test" and "Booger Butt"doing their best to dislodge them. Three million pounds of dirt, spread 18 inches ...
Port Deposit woman charged in mother's murder
Mar 04, 2008 ... Authorities in Cecil County said a Port Deposit woman whoinitially reported that her mother was missing has now been chargedwith her murder. Cecil County Bureau of Investigation spokesman ...
Allegany and Garrett counties take boundary dispute to court
Mar 04, 2008 ... Allegany and Garrett counties are going to court to resolve aboundary dispute. Garrett County Attorney Mike Getty says the issueis not new, but until now the two sides have resolved it informally.Allegany County Attorney Bill Rudd says the two counties agreed towhat he calls "a friendly ...
EEOC files age-discrimination suit agains Maryland-based Jacobs Technology
Mar 04, 2008 ... The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Mondayannounced it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Courtagainst Jacobs Technology Inc., previously operating as SverdrupTechnology Inc., a government contractor that provides technologyservices to the U.S Army at the ...
Machinists OK accord with Bethesda-based Lockheed
Mar 04, 2008 ... Lockheed Martin Corp., the world's largest weapons maker, averteda possible strike at eight plants, including one that builds the F-22 fighter, after a union representing about 6,000 machinists votedSunday to accept the company's three-year contract offer. Unionmembers in different ...
Ocean City overtime looms large
Mar 04, 2008 ... A list compiled by Ocean City's Finance Department shows sometown employees collected overtime last year in amounts up to 25percent of their base salaries. The list was sent last week to The(Salisbury) Daily Times and other newspapers. Some employeescollected nearly $30,000 in overtime ....
Lanham-based Integral Systems to repurchase stock
Mar 04, 2008 ... Integral Systems Inc., of Lanham, a provider and operator ofsatellite ground control systems, announced it has entered into adefinitive stock repurchase agreement with Fursa AlternativeStrategies LLC, of Lynnbrook, N.Y., to repurchase 1,064,972 sharesof its common stock, at a price of ...
Judge denies FTI Consulting bonus
Mar 04, 2008 ... Lazard Freres & Co. and FTI Consulting Inc. were both deniedbonuses for their work serving as financial advisers for theofficial creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 reorganization ofNorthwest Airlines Corp. Lazard was asking for final fees totaling$8.9 million, ...
Towson-based AmericasBank Corp. sees red ink
Mar 04, 2008 ... AmericasBank Corp., of Towson, the parent company ofAmericasBank, reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $2.5 million, or96 cents per diluted share, compared with a profit of $134,000, or 5cents per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2006 ....
Tax change also benefits business
Mar 04, 2008 ... While many Americans have heard that a new tax change, signed byPresident Bush, addresses a refund check to taxpayers, what they maynot realize is that there is another provision that benefitsbusiness owners as well. For 2008, taxpayers may immediately deductup to ...
Busy year for Maryland's Consumer Protection Division
Mar 05, 2008 ... Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler released the top fiveMaryland consumer complaints from 2007 to highlight the importanceof financial literacy during National Consumer Protection Week. TheConsumer Protection Division received 15,661 complaints in 2007andwas able to acquire more ...
Md. Court of Special Appeals gives added weight to black-mold opinion
Mar 05, 2008; ... Following its January decision affirming a $375,000 black-moldverdict against the Housing Authority of Baltimore City, the Courtof Special Appeals reissued it Tuesday it as a reported opinion. The move, which was requested by Scott E. Nevin of the LawOffices of Peter T. Nicholl, ...
Strange behaviors should set off scam alarms, experts say
Mar 05, 2008; ... Fraud can be hard to detect, but some telltale signs of workplacescams should set off red flags, said experts at a fraud preventionseminar Tuesday. Perpetrators of fraud often exhibit strange behaviors, likeextravagant spending, insomnia, gambling problems and drug oralcohol ...
University of Maryland Law honors Manekin, class of '36
Mar 05, 2008; ... Bernard Manekin, co-founder of the eponymous commercial realestate firm, is the first to admit he was not the best student whenhe attended the University of Maryland School of Law in the 1930s. "There was this saying: The 'A' students became judges andteachers and the 'B' students ...
Proposals before Baltimore City Council would offer big tax breaks to 'green' buildings
Mar 05, 2008; ... Two bills before the Baltimore City Council would provide heftytax credits to home and business owners who go green. Introduced by Councilman Jim Kraft at the City Council meeting onMonday night, both pieces of legislation propose changes in the citytax code. The first ...
Towson's Burger Bros. bucking big boys, and history
Mar 05, 2008; ... Sandwiched between a pizza shack and a bagel place on AlleghenyAvenue in downtown Towson, a family-run burger joint is stillwaiting to turn a profit -- and if history is any guide, they mayhave a long time to wait. Owned by Tim and Mike Murphy, Burger Bros. opened its doors ...
4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Hotline call gave grounds to take guns
Mar 05, 2008; ... Citing recent killing rampages in the United States, a federalappeals court on Tuesday threw out a Maryland firefighter's claimthat Gaithersburg police unreasonably searched his home and took hiscollection of 41 guns and ammunition after responding to a reportthat he was armed, suicidal ...
Competing bills put Maryland PSC on both sides of power reform debate
Mar 05, 2008; ... The Public Service Commission found itself on both sides of thepower reform debate Tuesday as lawmakers considered ways to makeMaryland's electric system cheaper and more reliable. Two bills before the House Economic Matters Committee came in oneither side of the Public Service ...
Maryland State Police seize 22 pounds of marijuana on I-81
Mar 05, 2008 ... Maryland State Police say troopers from Hagerstown seized morethan 22 pounds of marijuana, with an estimated street value of morethan $23,000, during a traffic stop on Interstate 81 near Interstate70. Police say the southbound car driven by Stacy Miller, 26, ofBrooklyn, ...
Theft of student newspapers at Washington College in Chestertown sparks college debate
Mar 05, 2008 ... The recent theft of student newspapers at Washington College inChestertown has sparked a campus debate about free speech and theschool's honor code. About 1,000 copies of the Feb. 8 edition of TheElm were stolen before they could be distributed on the campus.Editor-in-chief Katherine ...
Germantown-based MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals Inc. narrows 4Q loss
Mar 05, 2008 ... MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals Inc., the Germantown-based maker ofthe antibiotic Keflex, reported fourth-quarter revenue of $10.5million in fiscal 2007, up 117 percent from $4.8 million the yearbefore. Sales for the fourth quarter were $2.9 million, compared to$1.2 ...
U.K. law firm taps Metastorm Inc. of Baltimore
Mar 05, 2008 ... Metastorm Inc., of Baltimore, a developer of business automationand Web-based workflow software, said its Metastorm BPM platform hasbeen selected by British law firm Addleshaw Goddard to streamlineits new ...
CFO, CIO hiring outlook for Baltimore area
Mar 05, 2008 ... Baltimore-area chief financial officers and chief informationareas surveyed by Robert Half International Inc. expect to hireprofessionals in their respective areas during the second quarter,according to the California-based professional services firm. Ninepercent of CFOs surveyed plan to ...
Micros Systems Inc. of Columbia selected by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Mar 05, 2008 ... Micros Systems Inc., of Columbia, a provider of informationsystems to the hospitality and retail industries, said its 9700Hospitality Management System has been selected by the Las VegasSands Corp. for its new Palazzo Las Vegas luxury resort, ...
General Physics Corp. of Elkridge acquires Colorado company
Mar 05, 2008 ... General Physics Corp., of Elkridge, a provider of training, e-learning, management consulting and engineering services, announcedit has acquired Performance Consulting Services Inc., of Montrose,Colo., for at least $2 million. The price was $1 million in cashpaid at closing and $1 ...
W.R. Grace & Co. of Columbia to expand La. facility
Mar 05, 2008 ... W.R. Grace & Co., of Columbia, a specialty chemical company,announced plans to increase its manufacturing capacity with theexpansion of its facility in Lake Charles, La. The expansion willenable increased production of specialty aluminas, a ...
JetBlue picks Sourcefire of Columbia
Mar 05, 2008 ... Sourcefire Inc., of Columbia, a developer of network securitytechnology, said its Sourcefire 3D system has been selected by NewYork-based JetBlue Airways to replace a first-generation intrusionprevention system. With over 50 airport ...
Maroon PR of Marriottsville to publicize Major League Baseball games
Mar 05, 2008 ... Maroon PR, of Marriottsville, a full-service public relationsfirm, said it has been chosen by Atlanta-based Turner BroadcastingSystem to assist in promoting the cable network's new Sundayafternoon broadcasts of Major ...
Maryland power plant project sold to Virginia's largest utility
Mar 05, 2008 ... Dominion Resources Inc., of Richmond, Va., owner of Virginia'slargest utility, said it bought a power plant project fromCompetitive Power Ventures Inc., of Silver Spring. A natural gas-fueled plant with capacity of about 600 megawatts will be built onthe site three miles north of Front ...
Financial backing for Telkonet of Germantown
Mar 05, 2008 ... Thermo Credit LLC, of New Orleans, a financial services companyfocused exclusively on the telecommunications industry, announced anagreement with Telkonet Inc., to provide $2.5 ...
The Daily Record announces 2008 Top 100 Women winners
Mar 07, 2008 ... One hundred women throughout the state with a wide variety ofoccupations and accomplishments have been named to The DailyRecord's 13th annual Maryland's Top 100 Women list. The award was created to recognize successful femaleprofessionals who also give back to their professions and ...
Letters to the Editor
Mar 07, 2008 ... Jim Doyle will be missed in Annapolis The sad death of James J. Doyle Jr. tolls the passing not only ofa consummate lawyer and Annapolis personage, but also those times inboth arenas of his professional life, now but a fading memory. When I came to the legislature as a ...
Commentary: The Pursuit of Justice
Mar 07, 2008; ... The Republican presidential primary season has just ended.However, Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee for president,has already been playing the role by rhetorically attacking the manhe believes he will be running against in the fall, Senator BarackObama. Senator ...
On the Move
Mar 07, 2008 ... ACCOUNTING Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates P.A. announced that Tricia LoveThomas has joined the firm as a partner. Thomas, who specializes inproviding audit, accounting, tax and business advisory services toconstruction contractors, nonprofit organizations, ...
Commentary: Tech Talk
Mar 07, 2008; ... Spam in our inboxes is an inconvenient reality for most of us.Even with the most sophisticated spam filters, the possibility ofreceiving superfluous e-mails can exist. As a result, the government has taken steps to reduce domestic-borne spam by enacting laws that make spamming ...
Week in Review
Mar 07, 2008 ... Battling lawsuits The rift between the state and Constellation Energy Group Inc.widened when both sides lobbed lawsuits at each other. Both lawsuitsstem from the General Assembly's 1999 decision to deregulate thepower industry. First was the state, which sued CEG last Friday ...
Columbia's COPT turning Fort Ritchie in to a Fort Suburbia
Mar 07, 2008; ... During World War II, the hills around this tiny Western Marylandtown rang with the sounds of gunfire and explosions produced byGerman-made small arms. No, it wasn't a sneak attack by Bund members or fascist fifth-columnists. The U.S. Army officers based at nearby Fort ...
GBC, Tech Council starting advertising campaigns to target computer tax in Md.
Mar 07, 2008; ... Business groups are turning up the heat on lawmakers to repeal acontroversial sales tax on computer services before the GeneralAssembly adjourns for the year. Two high-profile advocates are launching advertising campaigns inadvance of House and Senate hearings Wednesday on ...
News Summary - 3/07
Mar 07, 2008 ... Royal Ahold's earnings rise Royal Ahold NV, the Netherlands-based owner of the Stop & Shopand Giant Food supermarket chains in the United States, reported a9.2 percent rise in fourth-quarter earnings on strong results fromits Dutch grocery operations. Net profit was 262 million ...
Md. COSA rules investigative subpoena was illegal under LEOBR, but remedy is limited
Mar 07, 2008; ... In what it admitted "may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory" for abeleaguered police officer, the Court of Special Appeals agreed thathis cell phone records were illegally subpoenaed during an internalinvestigation but said the information obtained from those subpoenascan still used ...
Maryland Hospital Association targeted
Mar 07, 2008 ... The Maryland Hospital Association has rallied its members tocoordinate a series of community forums on Methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in hopes of sidestepping a panicover the infection and helping prevent its spread. In ...
Battling lawsuits facing Md. and Constellation Energy
Mar 07, 2008 ... The rift between the state and Constellation Energy Group Inc.widened when both sides lobbed lawsuits at each other. Both lawsuitsstem from the General Assembly's 1999 decision to deregulate thepower industry. First was the state, which sued CEG last Friday ...
Md. Court of Appeals weighs scope of extortion law
Mar 07, 2008; ... A lawyer for the state came under sharp attack from several Courtof Appeals judges when he urged them to reinstate the extortionconviction of a man who sent expletive-laden letters to a formerboss and his attorney, threatening to sue them unless they paid him$100,000. Assistant ...
U.S. District judge lifts CPA requirement in Westboro case
Mar 07, 2008; ... A Kansas church that's challenging a $5 million verdict forpicketing a Marine's funeral will not have to provide a financialstatement from a certified public accountant in its quest to foregoan appeal bond -- in part because the church was unable to find aCPA during tax ...
Charming the planners in Baltimore
Mar 07, 2008 ... Come November, city tourism promoters hope to show about 250trade show executives and meeting planners attending the Fastest 50Convention exactly why the host city of Baltimore earned thenickname "Charm City." The executives and planners represent ...
Power debate in Maryland
Mar 07, 2008 ... The Public Service Commission found itself on both sides of thepower reform debate Tuesday as lawmakers considered ways to makeMaryland's electric system cheaper and more reliable. One billbefore the House Economic Matters Committee ...
Bullish market in Baltimore?
Mar 07, 2008 ... The Professional Bull Riders Inc. brought back its BaltimoreInvitational to the 1st Mariner Arena last weekend for the firsttime in five years. The rapidly growing sport that, like the nameimplies, centers on ...
St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson looking to add measure of comfort
Mar 07, 2008 ... St. Joseph Medical Center is looking to add a measure of comfortfor its cancer treatment patients by investing more than $100,000for a set of custom-built chairs designed to make the ...
State of Md. utility regulators extend public comment period
Mar 07, 2008 ... State utility regulators extended the public comment period on aproposed Garrett County wind power project that could bypass alengthy regulatory approval process, an official said Wednesday. ThePublic Service Commission tacked on 30 ...
BRAC workers coming to Aberdeen
Mar 07, 2008 ... The first employees from Fort Monmouth, N.J., who will betransferred to Aberdeen Proving Ground are set to move this summer.More than 220 workers applied for jobs that will be transferred whenthe New Jersey fort closes after ...
Netherlands-based Royal Ahold's earnings rise
Mar 07, 2008 ... Royal Ahold NV, the Netherlands-based owner of the Stop & Shopand Giant Food supermarket chains in the United States, reported a9.2 percent rise in fourth-quarter earnings on strong results fromits Dutch grocery operations. Net profit was 262 million euros ($398million), up from 240 ...
BB&T in Chesapeake promotes Standridge
Mar 07, 2008 ... BB&T Corp. said it promoted Brant Standridge to president of itsChesapeake community bank region, based in Annapolis. He will beresponsible for commercial, small business and retail banking, andwill work closely with ...
Gaithersburg-based Iomai cuts loss in 4th quarter
Mar 07, 2008 ... Iomai Corp., of Gaithersburg, a developer of vaccines and immunesystem stimulants that don't use needles, reported a fourth-quarternet loss of $6.2 million, or 24 cents per diluted share, versus anet loss of $9.9 million, or 53 cents per diluted ...
Loss down at Rockville-based EntreMed Inc.
Mar 07, 2008 ... EntreMed Inc., of Rockville, a clinical-stage pharmaceuticalcompany developing therapeutics for the treatment of cancer andinflammatory diseases, reported a fourth-quarter net lossattributable to common shareholders of $4 million, or 5 cents perdiluted share, on revenue of $3.9 million, ...
Columbia-based W.R. Grace & Co. reports on finances
Mar 07, 2008 ... W.R. Grace & Co., of Columbia, a specialty chemical manufacturer,reported $6.5 million in net income for itself and affiliates inChapter 11 reorganization for the month of January. Combined salesto third parties were $79.5 million in the month. The sales figurerose to ...
Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. competes for USAF work
Mar 07, 2008 ... Lockheed Martin Corp., of Bethesda, and Boeing Co., the top twoU.S. defense contractors, will compete separately for as much as$5.4 billion in U.S. Air Force orders to support all of theservice's weapons systems, including those used by SpecialOperations forces. Work includes ...
Elkridge-based General Physics Corp. gets contract
Mar 07, 2008 ... General Physics Corp., of Elkridge, a provider of training, e-learning, management consulting and engineering services, said ithas been awarded a contract, valued at up to $2.5 million throughSeptember 2009, by a unit of the U.S. Army's 20th Support Command,to provide personnel to ...
Pa.-based gas business to change hands
Mar 07, 2008 ... UGI Corp., a King of Prussia, Pa.-based company that ownsutilities in Pennsylvania, agreed to buy gas distribution andpropane units from PPL Corp. for about $268 million. The gasbusiness has about 76,000 customers in Pennsylvania and Maryland,operates ...