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About 5,200 Marylanders are owed a total of more than $6.8 million in unpaid wages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Even as wealth grows in Detroit, some say they feel left behind.

Christopher Eddings, the former president of The Daily Record and director of publishing operations for the publication’s owner, BridgeTower Media, died from lung cancer. He was 75.

As the newly hired Impact Director at Hotel Revival in Mount Vernon, Jasmine Garland begins her role as DEI positions are under attack.

Marriott, based in Bethesda, is gearing up to lay off more than 800 employees by the start of the new year.

Timothy Cartwell, a waste collector with the Reedbird Sanitation Yard, died after being trapped between a utility pole and a trash truck in an alley in West Baltimore.

After loses by Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, Maryland women in politics ponder whether they will see a woman president in their lifetime.

#iVoted, which works in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute, produces free concerts as an incentive to get young people to vote.

Glen Burnie is the fastest-growing part of Anne Arundel County and second-largest-growing large area in the state, behind Silver Spring. The city is home to about 80,000 residents.

This week, a massive container ship called the Chiquita Voyager arrived in Port Wilmington in Delaware, and members of the ILA unloaded it.

Baltimore County resident Abigail Kuehl co-founded the hair care brand Antidote, which makes natural products for salons.

Black fraternities and sororities, professional social groups and other organizations have helped establish an infrastructure of support for Black candidates.

New Balance disassociated itself from neo-Nazis, but now Kondwani Fidel has helped create a marketing campaign for the brand that celebrates Black Baltimore.

Marylanders have a chance to transform the state into the nation’s center of Black political power, electing a Black governor, attorney general and U.S. senator.

Baltimore hotel workers went on strike at the the city-owned downtown Hilton hotel on Labor Day, demanding better pay and better working conditions. It was the city's first strike in more than 50 years.

Union workers at Baltimore’s Hilton Inner Harbor voted against a contract extension, clearing the way for members potentially to call a strike.

They’re now applying the infectious, youthful energy they captured working on the Kamala Harris campaign throughout Maryland — often in the political sphere.

Christopher Schafer became a tailor while living in London for a year in 2007, and started his own business years later. The business is expanding, and Schafer has distributed 13,000 suits through his related nonprofit.

Bloomberg Philanthropies grants Johns Hopkins $1 billion to cover the cost of medical school.

UPS notified the Maryland Department of Labor on June 20 that it is closing its facility at 3901 Vero Road on Aug. 23.