General Contracting

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...

In the calm before the storm, hopefully you prepared as best as you could for Hurricane Sandy's arrival. Now that she's gone, it's important to remain calm after the storm, too. If a tree crushed your car or fell on your home, or if your roof or...

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...

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...

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...

The University of Maryland, College Park will use a $1.1 million grant from defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. to establish a new honors concentration in cybersecurity, school officials announced Monday. With the program, which will accept its...

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...