General Contracting

Annapolis officials are considering a plan to remove trash cans from city parks, a strategy they say would save money and could keep public spaces cleaner. Without trash cans, officials said, visitors would take refuse with them or learn to not produce...

A 45-year-old man doing contract work clearing trees after superstorm Sandy in a residential community in Annapolis was killed by a falling tree on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. The death is the second...

Glendale this week agreed to extend its contract with the firm that manages five public parking lots for the city for $1.8 million. The agreement on the one-year extension came even as city officials work to address a number of problems, including...

Tuscarora School District officials recently received an unwelcome surprise when they learned Mercersburg Elementary School’s gym floor has mercury that needs to be professionally removed. The elementary school is in the midst of a $7 million...

KEYW Holding Corp., a Hanover-based defense contractor, on Tuesday said it intends to sell 7.4 million shares at a public offering of $11.75 per share in an effort to raise money to pay down debt and to fund a recent corporate acquisition. The company...

Not all occupation licensing laws on the books in Annapolis actually protect Maryland consumers from harm. It's pretty clear that many of these laws misuse state sanctions to protect existing businesses from unwanted competition. Now a new study by the...

In attempt to crackdown on unlicensed contractors operating in the city, Department of Code Enforcement inspectors opened up an abandoned house in the 3900 block of Carrollton Avenue to lure under-the-table operators into making renovation bids. “...

Taxpayers will be picking up former City Councilman John Drayman’s legal bills after he swapped a high-powered criminal attorney for a public defender. Drayman was indicted in May on charges that he embezzled between $304,000 and $880,000 from a...

Q: I moved to Boston a few months ago, but my adult son is living at our home on Route 611 in Williams Township. Imagine my surprise when visiting him in late June to find a brand new guardrail installed on the canal side of northbound 611, directly...

Like knees and elbows, you may not realize how much you rely on your home's toilets or sinks until things go bad. I learned that lesson recently when a pipe fitting below my house cracked and backed up my toilets and tubs several times. Not something any...

George and Eileen Lasure of Stoystown are frustrated by a lack of action after their pond was drained by contractors working at the Flight 93 National Memorial.   "It's been over a year and nothing's been done," Eileen Lasure said in a telephone...

More than three years after it opened, the state-financed and state-subsidized Connecticut Science Center remains bogged down in a $10 million lawsuit against its "world-renowned architect," Cesar Pelli. Lawyers for both sides say some minor side...