Provident Bank

It's the billion-dollar question for Maryland banks: Do they need at least that much in assets to survive? "Who knows what the magic number is? A billion, $1.5 billion, $750 million?" said Ronald Paul, chairman of Eagle Bancorp, parent of the second-...

Robert G. Wilmers, M&T Bank Corp.'s chairman and chief executive officer, has been leading the Buffalo, N.Y., bank's shopping spree in Maryland. After gaining a foothold in the state with the purchase of Allfirst Financial Inc. in 2003 (the same year...

A 50-year-old man who threatened to shoot patrons and tellers while robbing two Baltimore banks within a block of each other near Johns Hopkins Hospital was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison. George Jordan, of Baltimore, admitted in U.S....

Even before he got home from the hospital, Phil Anderson signaled for his wife, Carol, to stop the car at the entrance of the Ma and Pa Trail near their home in Bel Air. Phil Anderson, who had retired a few months earlier after more than 30 years...

On the day last week that Bank of America announced sweeping cost-cuts, including the elimination of 30,000 jobs, executives at BlueRidge Bank celebrated a milestone for the three-year-old financial company. The Frederick-based community bank opened a...

It's a big weekend for two organizations devoted to bringing more people into the local theater community. Performance Workshop Theatre, a nonprofit company and theater arts training school, just moved from its Federal Hill location to new digs in...

TEMECULA, Calif. (KTLA) -- A man entered an area bank Thursday morning demanding money from a teller, according to officials. Authorities responded to the Provident Bank located at 40705 Winchester Road at 9:41 a.m. minutes after receiving report of a...

As the sun rose over the Atlantic in the early hours of April 15, 2003, an Ocean City police officer pulled his squad car into the parking lot near the inlet that separates Assateague Island from the carnival rides of the boardwalk. He had been sent there...

Monday: -- Earnings: Genentech Inc.; M&T Bank Corp. Tuesday: -- December retail sales -- December producer price index -- November business inventories -- Earnings: Citigroup Inc.; Forest Laboratories Inc.; H.B. Fuller Co.; Intel Corp.; Linear Technology...

Some national and regional banks are dropping as customers check-cashing operations and other money-service businesses over concerns the firms aren't following federal guidelines meant to thwart money laundering and terrorist financing. Without banking...

A nervous banker is a good banker, and there are plenty of nervous bankers these days. After eight years of surging profits and rapid loan growth, bankers are worried this year that the slowing economy will result in more problem loans and a stunted...

It wasn't so long ago that stock options were the equivalent of corporate America's lottery. That still may the case be for a handful of Maryland executives. Among those who got mega-grants last year, Coventry Health Care Inc. CEO Dale B. Wolf...