Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) articles from October 2005

Daily Record (Baltimore, MD) archives from October 2005

Commentary: Get specific when landing chip shots.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Joe Rahnis Throughout the course of the round, most golfers are going to miss almost as many greens as they will hit with their approach shots. Consequently, the average golfer can expect to be chipping from off the green at least...

Head of Downtown Sailing Center at Baltimore's Inner Harbor returns to corporate life.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff Writer Seven years ago, Kirk Culbertson gave up his career in finance to become executive director of the Downtown Sailing Center at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Culbertson, 49, is the only leader the sailing...

Greyhound Lines to restructure its routes nationwide.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Greyhound Lines Inc. plans to eliminate its operation in Cumberland and in Morgantown and Clarksburg, W.Va., as part of a nationwide restructuring of its routes. According to Greyhound...

Engineers to start designing a $12M wastewater treatment plant for Perryville, MD.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Engineers have told Perryville officials that they're ready to start designing a proposed $12 million wastewater treatment plant. A representative of URS, the engineering firm for the town, said...

MD Department of Natural Resources' Fall Foliage Hotline provides weekly updates on peak spots.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Maryland's foliage is changing, and the Department of Natural Resources' Fall Foliage Hotline (1-800-LEAVES1) has weekly updates on peak spots. The earliest leaf color changes are seen in Western...

Johns Hopkins Children's Center to celebrate 10th anniversary of Miracle Collection.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports The Johns Hopkins Children's Center will present a fashion show on Nov. 10 celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Jos. A. Bank, Clothiers' Miracle Collection, a line of men's neckwear designed...

WeatherBug partners with McDougal Littell to distribute software to NY and FL schools.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports WeatherBug, of Germantown, a provider of live local weather information services, said it has joined with McDougal Littell, of Evanston, Ill., a division of book publisher Houghton Mifflin Co.,...

Maryland Transportation Authority gets federal approval for an $830M highway project.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports The Maryland Transportation Authority announced it has received federal approval for an $830 million highway project to add lanes and reconstruct interchanges on 10 miles of Interstate 95 through...

MD. companies offer supplies in event of local catastrophe.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Dori Berman The shockwaves that surged across the country following the Gulf Coast hurricanes hopefully will inspire business owners to register with an emergency supply inventory created last year for the national capital region....

Baltimore County's furniture row looks to wow region.
October 3, 2005... Byline: James Mosher Although unlikely to make anyone cancel a vacation to the Eastern Shore, Catonsville's "Furniture Row" is the subject of a marketing campaign geared toward traveling consumers. The two-mile section of Baltimore...

MD. Court of Special Appeals rules firing wasn't subject to judicial review.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Barbara Grzincic Floyd R. Blair, erstwhile and controversial head of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, did not impugn a former manager's honor or integrity by saying the man's firing had "freed" his staff from...

Luxury high-rise in downtown Baltimore delayed.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Jen DeGregorio A luxury high-rise planned to open next year in downtown Baltimore is stalled due to a hike in construction costs and other issues. The Zenith, a $46 million apartment project on the corner of Pratt and Paca...

Baltimore-based Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc. gives MGI Pharma local presence.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Karen Buckelew The acquisition of Baltimore-based Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc. is expected to close today after shareholders voted on Thursday to approve the $177.5 million deal. The transaction establishes a local presence...

Turning H2O into $$$.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Ben Mook In an ironic twist (with lemon, if you please), the purity and profitability of Maryland's bottled water business are being tapped to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr....

Bethesda game company presents Hollywood stars.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Kathleen Johnston Jarboe Players of the upcoming fantasy role-playing game "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" might hear something familiar when they play the voices of movie stars from films such as "Star Wars" and "Lord of the...

MD Court of Special Appeals affirms passenger's drug convictions, 8-4.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Cynthia Di Pasquale The sum total of circumstantial evidence presented at trial supported a reasonable inference that a man who was riding in a car with friends was guilty of possessing and planning to sell marijuana, the full...

Commentary: MD Stadium Authority and Coppin State University join hands.
October 3, 2005... Byline: The Daily Record Editorial Advisory Board We at the Daily Record Editorial Advisory Board salute the Maryland Stadium Authority and Coppin State University for their efforts to revitalize Coppin by the construction of a new physical...

MD Legal Briefs: October 3, 2005.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports A dirty shame Paul Wayne Adkins, 61, of Crisfield, was sentenced to six months in jail for dumping septic waste into a drainage ditch that leads to the Wicomico River, the Maryland attorney...

Officials think MD could gain from 30,000 to 40,000 new jobs as a result of BRAC process.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Although previous estimates were that Maryland will gain from 6,000 to 7,000 new jobs as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure process, economic development officials now believe that from...

M-Square, the University of Maryland Research Park, opens its first new major anchor facility.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports M-Square, the University of Maryland Research Park, is opening its first new major anchor facility, the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language, on Oct. 6. The laboratory for...

Corporate Office Properties Trust of Columbia sells its interest in three PA office parks.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Corporate Office Properties Trust, of Columbia, a suburban-focused office real estate investment trust, announced the sale of its 80 percent ownership interest in three office parks in...

Canton Group of Baltimore selected by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports The Canton Group, of Baltimore, a full-service information technology company, said it has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract the amount of which was not specified by the National...

Two Maryland facilities to lead NASA team in building spacecraft to land on the moon.
October 3, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Two Maryland facilities will lead a National Aeronautics and Space Administration team in building a spacecraft to land on the moon for the first time since 1969, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski...

Towson golf club, residents to meet as Baltimore County's duplex ban looms.
October 4, 2005... Byline: James Mosher A Towson golf club is planning to meet with neighborhood residents this week or next in an attempt to move forward with a plan to build homes on part of its property. The Country Club of Maryland wants to build 56...

Rockville credit union widens scope, adds Web banking to attract members.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Kathleen Johnston Jarboe The Public Health Service Federal Credit Union of Rockville has a shorter name and a vastly larger pool of potential customers. The institution received regulatory approval this weekend for its bid to...

Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley voices support for stem cell research funding.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Dori Berman Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley yesterday strengthened his support of stem cell research funding, an issue certain to face considerable debate in the upcoming legislative session, indicating he will be vocal on the...

Commentary: Explore options to prepay a funeral.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Gary Williams Preplanning your own funeral, while difficult for most of us, can help ease the emotional and financial burden for your survivors at a stressful time. But should you pay in advance for your funeral? Prepaying for...

Baltimore County executive to form panel to work on development plan for Towson.
October 4, 2005... Byline: James Mosher Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith Jr. said yesterday he will form a team of experts that will work with residents on a development vision for Towson. "It's absolutely essential that the community be...

Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. gets down to business.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Caryn Tamber Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. wasted no time during his first day on the Supreme Court bench yesterday, joining his new colleagues in grilling an attorney who argued that workers' time spent...

Human Genome Sciences lands $1.8B anthrax contract.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Joe Bacchus Human Genome Sciences Inc. has received a two-part contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help stockpile treatments for anthrax. For the first phase of the contract, the Rockville-based...

Another firm moves its headquarters in order to benefit from Silver Spring's media rich location.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Kara Kridler An international satellite broadcasting company moved its corporate headquarters to downtown Silver Spring, hoping to benefit from the close proximity to other media companies and reduce overall costs. WorldSpace...

MD Legal Briefs: October 4, 2005.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Meth maker sentenced A Caroline County man has been sentenced to five years in prison for the county's first known home methamphetamine lab. Barry Womer, 43, was sentenced last week for...

MD Court of Appeals rules professor's death penalty study no help to convicted murderer.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Cynthia Di Pasquale A study finding Maryland's death penalty is imposed unevenly by race and county cannot save a black man convicted of murdering a white woman 13 years ago in Baltimore County, the state's highest court held...

Grand jury's recommendation angers Baltimore City clerk of court.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daniel Ostrovsky In a letter to Baltimore City Circuit Court Administrative Judge Marcella A. Holland, irate Clerk of Court Frank M. Conaway called for the firing of Jury Commissioner Nancy M. Dennis over what he believes to be...

Survey finds salaries for financial professionals continuing to increase.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Salaries for financial professionals continue to increase faster than for the work force overall, according to the most recent Compensation Survey by the Bethesda-based Association for Financial...

Subsidiary of MD-based United Industrial Corp. receives $7.5M contract from U.S. Army.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports United Industrial Corp., of Hunt Valley, said its subsidiary, AAI Corp., a manufacturer of high-tech mechanical and electronic systems, received a $7.5 million contract from the U.S. Army to...

Study by BioPlan Associates says biotech contracts will expand over next five years.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports According to an annual study by BioPlan Associates, of Rockville, a consulting firm providing marketing research services to the biopharmaceutical, biotechnology and health care industries, the...

MD-based Active Services Corp. acquires adult day care segment of KY-based Almost Family.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Active Services Corp., of Owings Mills, a provider of medical day care and rehabilitation services to elderly, frail and disabled adults, which is the nation's largest for-profit provider of...

Pattern book for redevelopment of apartments in Essex to be presented.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports A pattern book for the redevelopment of the former Kingsley Park Apartments in Essex will be presented at a meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. at Mars Estates Elementary School in Essex. The pattern book...

Corporate Office Properties Trust acquires three office buildings in Colorado Springs.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Corporate Office Properties Trust, of Columbia, a suburban office-focused real estate investment trust, said it acquired three office buildings in Colorado Springs, Colo., for a combined total of...

Johns Hopkins University affiliate receives ExxonMobil grant for midwifery training in Indonesia.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports JHPIEGO, an international health affiliate of The Johns Hopkins University, said it received a $200,000 grant from the ExxonMobil Foundation to build the capacity for midwifery training in Aceh,...

Duratek Inc. of Columbia, MD, announces agreement with TriVis of Alabama.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Duratek Inc., of Columbia, which specializes in the disposition of radioactive wastes, announced an agreement with TriVis Inc., of Pelham, Ala., to provide services for commercial spent nuclear...

MD-based Multimax Inc. awarded two task orders by U.S. Air Force.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Multimax Inc., of Largo, an information technology products and services company focused on the federal, state and local government markets, announced it was awarded two task orders by the U.S....

Northrop Grumman names James F. Pitts president of its Linthicum-based Electronic Systems.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., of Los Angeles, said it named James F. Pitts as president of its Linthicum-based Electronic Systems sector. Pitts' career began with Westinghouse's...

Lockheed Martin names Judy F. Marks president of Transportation and Security Solutions business.
October 4, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Lockheed Martin Corp., of Bethesda, the nation's largest defense contractor, named Judy F. Marks president of its Transportation and Security Solutions business, based in Rockville. The unit...

Towson University puts housing plans on hold.
October 5, 2005... Byline: James Mosher Towson University's efforts to find additional student housing are on hold until a replacement for an administrator who greatly shaped its current strategy is found. The college is looking for a successor to David...

Diebold Election Systems supplies Baltimore City with touch-screen voting units.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Diebold Election Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Diebold Inc., of North Canton, Ohio, a provider of voting equipment and technology, said it has supplied Baltimore City with more than 1,900...

Bethesda-based foundation to direct community investment notes to help rebuild Gulf Coast.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports The Calvert Foundation, of Bethesda, a nonprofit organization dedicated to socially responsible investing, said it will direct Calvert Community Investment notes to help rebuild communities along...

Silver Spring-based TV One adds million-plus households.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports TV One, of Silver Spring, a cable television network focused on black viewers, said it added more than a million households in September, bringing its subscriber total to nearly 23 million...

College Park-based biosciences company signs agreement with Cambrex Bio Science Walkersville Inc.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Innovative Biosciences Inc., of College Park, which develops, manufactures and markets pathogen tests for infectious diseases to the food safety and human clinical markets, said it signed an...

Maryland to open second business office in China.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Kara Kridler The success of Maryland's export business in China prompted the state Department of Business and Economic Development to open its second office in the country. Nine years after opening an office in Shanghai, DBED...

White Marsh=based company awarded contract to provide mobile units at Fort Bliss, TX.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Williams Scotsman International Inc., of White Marsh, which leases mobile office and storage units, said it has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract to provide barracks, administrative...

Ideal Realty Group of Potomac, MD, announces sale of Forest Creek property.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Ideal Realty Group, of Potomac, a brokerage company specializing in multifamily properties, announced the sale of Forest Creek, a 69-building, 930-unit garden community in Forestville. The buyer,...

MCI Inc. to pay Maryland $26M.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Kathleen Johnston Jarboe Maryland expects to receive $26.8 million from MCI Inc. as part of a multistate effort to force the company to pay taxes it improperly sheltered from 1999 to 2002. In total, the company once known as...

Rockville-based information management firm selected by CA-based Delta Health Systems.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Amisys Synertech Inc., of Rockville, which offers information management services to health care payer, said it has been selected by California-based Delta Health Systems, a third-party...

MD Legal Briefs: October 5, 2005.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports 15 years for child porn U.S. District Judge William Quarles Jr. yesterday sentenced Frank Stephen Thodos, 42, of North East to 15 years in prison for distributing child pornography over the...

St. Michaels real estate plan cut, but developer isn't crying.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Jen DeGregorio Anything goes in the housing market these days: Home prices are jumping so high that the number 16 is suddenly worth more than 130, or at least in St. Michaels it is. A developer with a contract on waterfront...

Chevy Chase-based JBG Cos. completes sale of office buildings to Morgan Stanley Real Estate.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports The JBG Cos., of Chevy Chase, a real estate development company, announced that affiliated partnerships completed the sale to a Morgan Stanley Real Estate affiliate of five Class A buildings and...

Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda receives $110M order from U.S. Army.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Lockheed Martin Corp., of Bethesda, the nation's largest defense contractor, and Raytheon Co., the world's largest missile maker, received a $110 million order from the U.S. Army for more...

Acting chief of FDA probably won't be named as permanent commissioner.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports The Food and Drug Administration's acting chief, Andrew von Eschenbach, probably won't be named as permanent commissioner, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt. Von...

Bowie-based company successfully tests its unmanned aerial vehicle for use by farmers.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports IntelliTech Microsystems Inc., of Bowie, which develops and manufactures unmanned vehicles for aerial and marine applications, said it completed a successful test of its Vector P unmanned aerial...

Former Maryland lawyer's dealings warrant disbarment.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Cynthia Di Pasquale An Eastern Shore lawyer was disbarred yesterday over questionable dealings with an elderly couple, which the Court of Appeals stopped just short of describing as criminal. The top court rejected a hearing...

MD Court of Appeals nixes tax on lease termination fees.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Ann Parks Fees paid to terminate a lease are not subject to state sales tax, the Court of Appeals held yesterday. As a result, Citicorp International Communications Inc. is entitled to a refund from the state comptroller's...

MD Court of Special Appeals rebuffs challenge to Emerald Pointe PUD.
October 5, 2005... Byline: Ann Parks A group of Washington County residents suffered a setback last week in their efforts to prevent a 97-acre parcel of farmland near Hagerstown from being turned into a planned residential and commercial community. The...

MD Court of Special Appeals rules once cleared, park police officer stays in the clear.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Barbara Grzincic Police agencies cannot seek judicial review once a hearing board has cleared an officer of a misconduct charge, the Court of Special Appeals has held. The Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights, which spells...

MD Court of Appeals rules homeowner assn. waited too long to challenge tax sale.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Barbara Grzincic A law designed to protect homeowners' associations following a tax sale does not elevate them to the status of record titleholders, the state's highest court has held. The Court of Appeals upheld an order...

Three show interest in long-vacant corner in NE Baltimore.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Jen DeGregorio There were no takers last fall when the Baltimore Development Corp. gave developers a chance to rebuild a blighted corner of Harford Road in the city's Lauraville neighborhood. But this time around, three...

Gaithersburg-based GenVec's HIV vaccine candidate continues to generate funding.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Joe Bacchus GenVec Inc. has received an additional $9.9 million for its role in the research and development of a worldwide HIV vaccine. The Gaithersburg-based biopharmaceutical company is in its fourth year of vaccine...

Entrepreneurs at home in Baltimore-DC region.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Kara Kridler Thinking about starting a company? If so, stay put. The Washington-Baltimore area ranked No. 6 on Entrepreneur magazine's "Hot Cities" list for entrepreneurs. The area's tourism and government-related...

Rockville-based Human Genome Sciences Inc. buoyed by drug trial.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Karen Buckelew Human Genome Sciences Inc. officials still are optimistic about a future late-stage human trial for the company's lupus drug candidate, though the compound recorded disappointing results in mid-stage trials. ...

Business travelers have new Mexico City option at Baltimore/Washington International.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Dori Berman Efforts by the Maryland Aviation Administration to secure more international carriers at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport have again paid off. The Board of Public Works yesterday approved...

CA-based Intel Capital invests in 3e Technologies International Inc. of Rockville.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports 3e Technologies International Inc., of Rockville, a technology company focusing on computer networking, wireless communications and smart sensor systems, announced that Intel Capital, the...

MD Court of Special Appeals holds that a good excuse doesn't bar jury instruction on flight.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Cynthia Di Pasquale A judge was right to give a "flight" instruction in the trial of a man convicted of shooting a businessman visiting downtown Baltimore City, even though the defendant gave a different excuse for running from...

MD-based Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship expands its Capital Access Network.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship has expanded its Capital Access Network, a program that facilitates funding relationships between angel investors and regional startups, the University of...

MD-based Metastorm Inc. and FL-based CommerceQuest Inc. merge.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Metastorm Inc., of Columbia, a developer of business automation and Web-based workflow software, and CommerceQuest Inc., of Tampa, Fla., a provider of business process management software, have...

MD-based Spectrum Signal Processing receives $1M order from CA-based company.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Spectrum Signal Processing Inc., of Columbia, a designer of signal processing systems, said it received an initial $1 million order from California-based Globalstar LLC, a provider of...

National Human Genome Research Institute to help develop lifesaving DNA tests.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports The National Human Genome Research Institute, a part of the Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health, said it is part of a team of researchers and scientists that will work to develop two...

Wheaton-based Auditors Inc. unveils online embezzlement guide for business owners.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Auditors Inc., of Wheaton, a bookkeeping company geared to the small-business community, unveiled "Embezzlement 101: How to Embezzle from Your Employer and NOT Get Caught," an Internet guide to...

Avatech Solutions Inc. of Owings Mills opens office in Houston, TX.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Avatech Solutions Inc., of Owings Mills, a provider of design automation tools and technical support for the manufacturing, building design and engineering markets, said it has opened an office...

MD-based TVI Corp. awarded contract with Red Cross.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports TVI Corp., of Glenn Dale, a supplier of rapidly deployable first responder systems for homeland security, hospitals, police and fire departments, the military and public health agencies, said it...

Few contractors express interest in renovating 144-year-old covered bridge in Cecil County.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports A 144-year-old covered bridge tapped for renovation in Cecil County may not be repaired because few contractors have expressed interest in the project. County officials attributed the slow bid...

Wicomico County deciding what to do with radioactive material found at regional airport.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Wicomico County officials are trying to decide what to do with radioactive material found at the Salisbury-Wicomico Ocean City Regional Airport. The site contains warehouses of World War II-era...

Damon's Grill opens at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
October 6, 2005... Byline: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports Sodexho USA, of Gaithersburg, a provider of food and facilities management services to the corporate, education and health care markets, said a Damon's Grill has been opened at George Mason...

As many as 40,000 new jobs expected to march into Maryland4.
October 7, 2005... Byline: Joe Bacchus The easy part was winning. The hard part will be finding a place to put everybody and Maryland officials have indicated they're ready for the challenge. Maryland was one of the big winners in the recent Base...