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900,000 Comcast customers may miss Yankees opener

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Opening Day at Yankee Stadium is three days away – bad news for fans who have Comcast cable subscriptions.



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BGE turning to schools, nonprofits as it seeks...

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Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. is trying to build a better pipeline of workers. The utility, which employs about 3,200 people, faces a large number of retirements from its workforce even as it eyes significant infrastructure changes that will require labor in the future. At the same time, it’s finding prospective employees in its core Baltimore area sometimes struggle to pass a key test that serves as a prerequisite for its entry-level utility trainees. BGE’s solution: Get more people to teach…

Emergency Plumber Owings Mills | Call 410-983-6900

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Sharp Dressed Man to resume operations in...

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Some of Baltimore’s most vulnerable residents will have a place once again to go and find free suits. Sharp Dressed Man, a nonprofit that gives free dress clothes to those who have recently been released from prison or are homeless, will re-open in a temporary space on April 14. The store’s location at 235 Park Ave. on downtown’s west side was damaged in a fire early last month. The nonprofit will resume normal operations nearby at 233 W. Lexington St., thanks to the Baltimore Development Corp.…

Billie Jean King wades into equal pay debate

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She’s the woman who transformed the world for female sports stars, but the fight isn’t over for Billie Jean King.



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University of Maryland committee finds fault in...

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The University of Maryland, College Park, approved a study that linked a specialty chocolate milk to faster recovery from sports and even concussions despite serious concerns raised by reviewers that the proposal lacked an understanding of how to conduct nutritional research among humans and that the lead researcher lacked experience in the study area, according to a university review committee. Chief Research Officer Patrick O’Shea in January initiated an institutional review of the study after…

eHarmony finally launches its jobs site

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It’s matched more than 2 million married couples. Now, eHarmony wants to help people find jobs that they love.



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JLL hired by Beatty Development as office broker...

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JLL has been tapped as the broker for close to a million square feet of office space at Harbor Point. The brokers were hired by Beatty Development Group LLC for the work, expected to begin this spring as the hunt for an anchor tenant for the 12-story Wills Wharf begins. That building will hold 220,000 square feet of office space and a 156-room Hilton Canopy Hotel. Harbor Point is being built on 27 acres of waterfront property that used to house an Allied Signal chromium plant. A building for Morgan…

Glittering: Gold's brightest quarter since 1986

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Gold is glittering like it hasn’t in three decades.



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Google's April Fool prank backfires big time

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Ooops. That wasn’t very funny, Google.



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