Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) articles from July 2007

Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) archives from July 2007

Maryland alternative energy lawyer Carolyn Elefant: Ahead of the current.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Caryn Tamber When Carolyn Elefant started attending conferences on renewable energy 15 years ago, the attendees all wore sandals and she was one of only a few lawyers in the room. At the time, alternative energy was seen as the...

Carolyn Elefant's blog explores perks, pitfalls of small-firm practice.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Caryn Tamber Carolyn Elefant is an evangelist for the solo practice of law. Elefant runs a blog called MyShingle.com, which explores the perks and pitfalls of solo and small-firm practice. She dispenses advice, links to...

Ritz-Carlton Residences show Baltimore's transition to affluence.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Steven Overly The exterior appears to be little more than an ordinary construction site with cranes looming over scaffolding and sand mounds, but tucked beyond winding hallways of unpainted walls and dangling wires is a $2.4...

Baltimore Wal-Mart customer settles suit over arrest.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Brendan Kearney In March 2006, Gilbert Jackson of East Baltimore sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and an off-duty police officer patrolling the chain's Port Covington store for $40 million in compensatory and punitive damages, alleging he...

Montgomery County jury awards Rent-A-Wreck damages for fraud.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Brendan Kearney A Rockville jury has awarded more than $853,000 to Rent-A-Wreck of America Inc., finding that a San Diego investor fraudulently induced the Maryland-based car rental franchiser to sell the company to him two years...

Former Maryland Wal-mart workers lose class-action bid.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Brendan Kearney A pair of former employees at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores in Maryland who claimed they were deprived of promised work breaks must pursue their claims individually, not in a class action, the Court of Special...

Brian Goodman: Baltimore lawyer by day, theater manager by night.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Liz Farmer Brian Goodman may have long ago traded in his thespian garb for a courtroom suit and tie, but you wouldn't know it this night. It's a hot, muggy Tuesday evening a few weeks before opening night and he is dressed for it,...

Commentary: Gateway to Greenland.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Maximilian Franz With its around-the-clock sunlight, iceberg-choked fjords and proximity to the Arctic Circle, Greenland might not be the first place to pop into your mind when planning a relaxing summer vacation. But, what...

Maryland law firms announce staffing changes: July 2, 2007.
July 2, 2007... Byline: The Daily Record Arielle Harry-Bess is the new president of the Alliance of Black Women Attorneys of Maryland. The Alliance of Black Women Attorneys of Maryland is an affiliate of the National Bar Association and the American Bar...

Maryland Court Digests: July 2, 2007.
July 2, 2007... Byline: The Daily Record Elections Nomination petitions BOTTOM LINE: The State Board of Elections improperly invalidated nomination petition signatures solely on the basis that such signatures appeared on petition sheets for counties in...

Federal Court Digests: July 2, 2007.
July 2, 2007... Byline: The Daily Record Staff MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Elections, Nomination petitions: The State Board of Elections improperly invalidated nomination petition signatures solely on the basis that such signatures appeared on petition...

Week in Review - Legal Edition.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Staff and wire reports Legal Week in Review From June 25 through June 29 Ronald P. Fish dies Ronald P. Fish, a Baltimore commercial real estate attorney and teacher, died June 23 of complications from spinal injuries he...

Maryland Legal Briefs: July 2, 2007.
July 2, 2007... Byline: The Daily Record Staff Family split anew The International Child Abduction Remedies Act offered no help to Malgorzata W, a Polish woman who came to St. Mary's County last year with her 10-year-old daughter, married an American...

Baltimore County Bar Assn. helped solo get on his feet.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Cynthia Dipasquale Alan R.L. Bussard was an outsider 25 years ago when he first hung out his shingle in Towson. The newly minted lawyer, originally from Frederick, lacked the connections of someone who had been raised and gone to...

Prince Anne attorney leaves legacy of problems.
July 2, 2007... Byline: Mark Matthews Nearly a year after Princess Anne lawyer Charles A. "Tony" Bruce Jr.'s death from strychnine poisoning, the tangled affairs of his practice are still spilling into court. In a recent filing, the Continental Casualty...

Ernst & Young announces 2007 Entrepreneurs of the Year in Baltimore.
July 2, 2007... Byline: The Daily Record Staff Ernst & Young announced on Thursday the 2007 winners of its coveted Entrepreneur of the Year Award at a ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore. They are: retail and consumer category, Paul Reed Smith,...

Emerald Ash Borer spreads from Prince George's County.
July 2, 2007... Byline: The Daily Record Staff The Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive beetle that is responsible for the destruction of 25,000 ash trees in southern Prince George's County, has been detected for the first time in Pennsylvania. The state...

M&T Bank opens branch at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
July 2, 2007... Byline: The Daily Record Staff M&T Bank has opened a full-service branch at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, the first such banking facility at the airport. The branch, located in a pre-security area near the...

Baltimore-based Constellation unit establishes venture with Mineral Transport Holdings.
July 2, 2007... Byline: The Daily Record Staff Mineral Transport Holdings Inc., a company controlled by Greece's Restis shipping family, established a venture with Constellation Bulk Energy Holdings Inc., a unit of Baltimore-based Constellation Energy...

Minneapolis-based Dolan Media amends IPO.
July 2, 2007... Byline: The Daily Record Staff Dolan Media Co., the Minneapolis-based parent company of The Daily Record, has raised the estimated aggregate price of its planned initial public offering from $150 million to $172.5 million, according to an...

Salisbury to consider changing its zoning rules about adult-oriented businesses.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports Salisbury could join Ocean City and four other towns in changing its zoning rules about adult-oriented businesses. Wicomico County Attorney Ed Baker said Salisbury is preparing to ask county...

Baltimore support center honored.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports Coverall Cleaning Concepts, one of the world's largest providers of commercial cleaning services, has awarded 2006 Support Center of the Year honors to its sales and service support centers in...

Thomson sells Baltimore-based Prometric to New Jersey-based ETS for $435M.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Steven Overly Thomson Corp. agreed to sell Baltimore-based Thomson Prometric to Educational Testing Service for $435 million Monday, the third sale in a three-part divestiture of the corporation's learning-based businesses. Both...

Baltimore-based Brown Advisory to merge with Bethesda-based Beaty Haynes & Associates Inc.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports Brown Advisory will merge with Beaty Haynes & Associates Inc., making the combined firm one of the largest independent advisory firms in the Washington, D.C. area in terms of client assets. Beaty...

GSE Systems awarded $3M in new contracts.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports GSE Systems Inc., a leading global provider of real-time simulation and training solutions to the energy, process, manufacturing and government sectors, announced the award of approximately $3...

Williams Scotsman CEO receives Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 Award.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports Williams Scotsman Inc.'s president and chief executive officer, Gerry Holthaus, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 Award in the business services category in Maryland. As a...

Coventry Health Care Inc. completes acquisition of businesses from Mutual of Omaha.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports Coventry Health Care Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of certain group health insurance businesses from Mutual of Omaha, including a commercial employer group health business...

Capitol College in Laurel to offer tuition waiver to members of Md. National Guard.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports Capitol College in Laurel signed a memorandum of understanding establishing the college as part of the Maryland National Guard's Partners in Education program. As part of the agreement, Capitol...

U.S. Department of Labor announces grants for organizations involved in workforce development.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that The Power/Excel Foundation Inc. and Alternative Directions Inc. of Baltimore will share in $3.8 million in grants being awarded to 73 faith-based and...

Susan Battle-McDonald named director of BayStat for Maryland Department of the Environment.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports Secretary Shari T. Wilson named Susan Battle-McDonald as director of BayStat for the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). Battle-McDonald has substantial strategic planning and statistical...

Howard County General Hospital names new board.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports Howard County General Hospital (HCGH) announced that W. Brian McGowan, senior vice president of administration at W.R. Grace, was elected chair of the hospital's board of trustees. HCGH also...

President Bush commutes Libby prison term.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports President Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Monday, sparing him from a 2 1/2-year prison term that Bush said was excessive. Bush's move came hours...

Columbia-based W.R. Grace may owe billions.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports W.R. Grace & Co. may owe victims of its asbestos products as much as $6.2 billion, a legal scholar hired by attorneys suing the bankrupt chemical maker said. Mark A. Peterson, a research scientist...

Complaint about juror came too late, rules Md. Court of Special Appeals.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Caryn Tamber A drug defendant who kept quiet about ill will between himself and a prospective juror until after his conviction does not deserve a new trial, the state's second-highest court has held. Terrance Scott had argued that...

Paradigm VP joins Maryland Tech Council.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Staff and wire reports Paradigm Holdings Inc., parent company of Paradigm Solutions Corp. and Trinity IMS, announced that Christian Kleszewski, vice president of information assurance and cyber forensics, has been elected to serve...

Md. governor announces plans to reduce government energy consumption.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Dori Berman Hoping to drive down the cost of power in the state by using less of it, Gov. Martin O'Malley Monday announced plans to reduce government energy consumption, setting an example for consumers. The Empower Maryland...

Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association says room-night bookings up 9% for 2007.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Louis Llovio The Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association (BACVA) said Monday that room-night bookings at city hotels had jumped about 9 percent to 381,556 for fiscal 2007. The association also announced a partnership...

News Summary.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Staff and wire reports Emergent loan Emergent BioSolutions Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, has signed a $30 million loan agreement with HSBC Realty Credit Corp. The company expects to use these funds primarily for its...

Cutting Md.'s conspicuous consumption.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Dori Berman Gov. Martin O'Malley hopes Maryland can learn from other states about how to reduce energy consumption. The governor will convene an energy summit this month, to be led by Malcolm Woolf, the new director of the Maryland...

Maryland criminal defense attorney Fred Warren Bennett's work shaped death penalty debate.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Caryn Tamber Attorneys who knew criminal defense giant Fred Warren Bennett say he was a tenacious advocate whose work will continue to impact Maryland law. Bennett, 65, was killed in a car crash last Sunday. During his career,...

Baltimore-based Legg Mason shareholder aims at Mason.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Andy Rosen Some Legg Mason shareholders would like to see Raymond A. "Chip" Mason, the company's president, chairman and CEO, relinquish at least one of his roles at the helm of the company. A proposal set for the Baltimore-based...

Baltimore research site hit with $5M lawsuit.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Brendan Kearney A Baltimore police officer has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the man who crashed into her car, as well as the private residential and research facility from which he had escaped hours earlier. Detective Martha...

Rockville-based Emergent BioSolutions gets $30M loan.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Emergent BioSolutions Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, has signed a $30 million loan agreement with HSBC Realty Credit Corp. The company expects to use these funds primarily for its manufacturing expansion in...

Brunswick Corp. closes Salisbury plant.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Brunswick Corp., the maker of Bayliner boats and Mercury marine engines, will buy a factory in Navassa, N.C., and close a plant in Maryland to meet rising demand for boats 45 feet long or bigger. Brunswick, which...

Preseason Beltway rivals football scrimmage to be shown on MASN.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff MASN, the official cable network of the Baltimore Ravens, announced that it will air a preseason scrimmage between the Washington Redskins and the Baltimore Ravens live from M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday, August...

North East-based NorthBay educational camp offers scholarships.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff NorthBay, an educational camp located in North East, will be reaching out to 900 middle school students from across the state with $675,000 in scholarships. Each of the scholarship recipients will receive a $750...

Baltimore-based McCornick & Company Inc.'s CFO to retire.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff McCormick & Company Inc.'s executive vice president of strategic planning and CFO, Francis A. Contino, is retiring, effective July 1, 2008. Gordon M. Stetz, vice president of finance for the company's European...

New pharmacy dean at University of Maryland named.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Natalie D. Eddington is the new dean of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Eddington is a nationally renowned expert in pharmacokinetics, the movement of drugs among the cells of the body. She was...

Howard County General Hospital elects new board members.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Howard County General Hospital elected W. Brian McGowan, senior vice president of administration at W.R. Grace, as chair of the hospital's board of trustees. HCGH also elected Harry Lundy, president and CEO of...

Baltimore support center receives honors.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Coverall Cleaning Concepts, one of the world's largest providers of commercial cleaning services, has awarded 2006 Support Center of the Year honors to its sales and service support center in Baltimore, among...

Surgery chief sues to block merger of Kent Co. hospital with Univ. of Maryland Medical System.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff The chief of surgery at Chester River Hospital Center in Kent County is suing the hospital's board of directors to stop a possible merger with the University of Maryland Medical System. Dr. Joseph B. Aquilla, an...

Courthouse Jesus will stay.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Unless a federal judge orders it down, an icon of Jesus holding biblical quotations about justice will stay up in the city court lobby in Slidell, La., a local judge ruled. The American Civil Liberties Union has...

Merle Haggard fake 'son' arrested in Montana.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Some Merle Haggard fans in Ronan, Mont., are likely singing the blues. Police said Mark Sams, 48, was arrested for impersonating the son of the country music star, who had a hit with the song "I Take a Lot of...

Havre de Grace chosen as location for movie shoot.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff After the Maryland Film Office presented location photos of more than 15 towns, and after a three-day scout by the director and producers, Havre de Grace was chosen as the location for the filming of "From...

Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Assn. reports hotel bookings up.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff The Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association (BACVA) said Monday that room-night bookings at city hotels had jumped about 9 percent to 381,556 for fiscal 2007. The association also announced a...

Md. Gov. Martin O'Malley to convene an energy summit.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Gov. Martin O'Malley hopes Maryland can learn from other states about how to reduce energy consumption. The governor will convene an energy summit this month, to be led by Malcolm Woolf, the new director of the...

Md. Gov. Martin O'Malley wishes to preserve land in Queen Anne's County.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Gov. Martin O'Malley said Tuesday he wants to move forward with a plan to spend $4.6 million to preserve land in Queen Anne's County, despite Comptroller Peter Franchot's urging to delay the deal to ask more...

Foard named board chairman of Md. Assn. of CPAs.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Thomas D. Foard has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants (MACPA). Foard has served as chair of MACPA's business and industry committee and...

Baltimore-based Hord Coplan Macht promotes Iraola to principal of firm.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Hord Coplan Macht (HCM), a Baltimore-based architecture, landscape architecture and planning firm, has promoted Miguel Iraola to principal; Cindy Shonaiya to senior associate; and Rick Carter and Keith Kobin to...

Employee of Anne Arundel Medical Center receives national award.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Anne Arundel Medical Center is proud to announce that Jackie Powers, director of patient financial services, has received the TWIN Award, a nationally recognized award presented by the YWCA to outstanding...

SunTrust Banks names Mills asst. vice president in Maryland region.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff SunTrust Banks Inc. named Christine Mills assistant vice president within its retail division. Mills has been with SunTrust for eight years in various business banking positions. She currently serves as the...

Maryland Hospital Association elects officers for 2007-2008.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff The board of trustees of the Maryland Hospital Association elected its officers and executive committee members for the 2007-2008 term of office. The MHA officers include: Benjamin F. Mason, board chair; Albert...

Boyd named president of Maryland's Action Coach International office.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Karen Boyd is president of Action Coach International's new Maryland office. The largest business coaching company in the world, Action Coach assists small and medium-sized business owners improve their...

College Park professors hope to develop genetic markers that would help farmers.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Karen Buckelew Harry J. Swartz crushed the strawberry between his fingers until it burst open. With rivulets of bright juice streaming down his fingers, he held the berry to his nose. "It's a little weak today," he said. ...

Acce$$ to power: New method of pricing electricity in Md. could mean higher bills.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Andy Rosen The cost that power suppliers pay for the ability to reserve energy on the electrical grid is rising, and that could amount to higher bills for customers of all sizes. It costs money to generate power, and it costs...

Sparrows Point-based Mittal Steel Co. gets extension.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff The Justice Department Thursday granted Mittal Steel Co. 15 more days to sell the Sparrows Point steel mill. It was the third, and final, extension granted after the department, because of antitrust issues,...

Carlyle Group to acquire Annapolis-based ARINC Inc.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff The Carlyle Group will acquire ARINC Inc., a private communications and engineering firm owned largely by major airlines, the company said Thursday. Details of the acquisition by the private-equity firm were not...

CEO of Bethesda-based Micromet Inc. to speak at conference in N.Y.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Micromet Inc. announced that its president and CEO, Dr. Christian Itin, will present at the 3rd Annual C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Emerging Growth Conference in New York on Thursday, July 12, 2007, at 10:00 a.m....

Univ. of Md. has interest in space research.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff A NASA probe powered by an ion engine is scheduled to lift off Sunday en route to the dwarf planet Ceres, and researchers at the University of Maryland will be watching with interest. University of Maryland...

Panel in Baltimore OKs Westport plan, sends Sapperstein back for more work.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Steven Overly Plans to redevelop two industrial sites garnered mixed responses from the city's architecture review panel Thursday, as developers and city officials debate the future of Baltimore's historically industrial...

Md. COSA rules threatening text messages from a murder defendant to his victim admissible in court.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Caryn Tamber Threatening text messages from a murder defendant to his victim were admissible in court, the state's second-highest court has held. The Court of Special Appeals found there was enough circumstantial evidence...

Petrie Ross purchases mall in Silver Spring.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Developer Petrie Ross Ventures has purchased the 348,000-square-foot City Place Mall in Silver Spring. Located in the central business district at 8661 Colesville Road, the mall is currently anchored by...

New farmers' market to open in Anne Arundel County.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Anne Arundel County's newest farmers' market opens Wednesday, July 11th, at the Centre at Glen Burnie. The market will be open from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. every Wednesday through September 26th and will be located...

Hard Rock Cafe Baltimore to celebrate ten year anniversary.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Ten years ago, Hard Rock Cafe helped transform Baltimore's historic Power Plant from an abandoned facility to a vibrant entertainment venue, extending its visitor appeal beyond Baltimore's World Trade Center,...

Community College of Baltimore County wins grant.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff The Community College of Baltimore County recently won a grant totaling $7,050 to implement a National Institute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS) accredited certification in metalforming and machining for area...

Greater Homewood Community Corp. publishes map.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff The Greater Homewood Community Corp. (GHCC) has published the first map covering the neighborhoods from Penn Station to the Baltimore City/County line. GHCC serves the 40 neighborhoods of north-central Baltimore....

Laurel-based Tower Federal Credit Union joins network.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Credit Union 24, the nation's only credit union-owned point of sale (POS) network, welcomes $1.6B Tower Federal Credit Union to the cooperative electronic funds transfer network. Members of Tower Federal,...

Ahold completes sale of Columbia-based U.S. Foodservice.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Ahold successfully completed the sale of U.S. Foodservice to a consortium of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund VII L.P. (CD&R) and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co L.P. (KKR). This follows the agreement announced on May...

Md. Education Briefs: July 6, 2007.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Seasoned occupational therapist Terri Clark recently was appointed assistant principal of UCP Delrey School, an academic program for students with disabilities. In this position, Clark assists the principal with...

College of Notre Dame of Maryland has named Mona Weber director of recruitment for accelerated college and weekend college.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff College of Notre Dame of Maryland has named Mona Weber director of recruitment for accelerated college and weekend college. Weber has worked at College of Notre Dame since 2005, first as corporate liaison and...

Md. Health Care Briefs: July 6, 2007.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, associate professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, has been elected vice president of the Maryland...

Maryland-based Ruppert Nurseries announces promotions.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Ruppert Nurseries has promoted Justin Gibson to area manager in its Virginia Landscape Management Branch. Gibson began with the company in 2005 as a field supervisor. He will be responsible for the sale, renewal...

Pinnacle Financial adds new loan officers to Maryland brances.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Pinnacle Financial Corp. has added new mortgage loan officers to multiple branch locations in Maryland. Carmen Ferrell and Tracy Smith have joined the Greenbelt office. Coming to the Rockville office are Wilson...

Md. Marketing Briefs: July 6, 2007.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Daily Record Staff Warschawski, a full-service public relations, marketing and branding agency, announced the promotion of Sara Huber to senior associate. Huber will be responsible for all aspects of client servicing, including...