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Consumer Confidential: GOP block, Amazon discount, credit card debt

2011-12-08 16:34:36

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A quarter-century marriage to a man behind bars

2008-11-30 00:00:00

First of Three Parts The summer after her first year of law school, Pamela Dowden dug a red calico sundress out of her closet and left her apartment in Sacramento. It was a hot, shadeless morning. She drove her orange Datsun pickup out of town as...

Two worlds collide as lawyer fights for inmate husband

2008-12-02 00:00:00

Second of Three Parts "Well, it's dinnertime at the amazing Miss Weird's Place," Pamela Griffin wrote her husband, Robert, one night in 1986, sitting alone at her kitchen table with leftovers. "Tonight we have the famous incredible squash concoction --...

Trial strains the hope of a prisoner's wife

2008-12-03 20:01:00

Last of Three Parts In the predawn solitude of a prison cell on Terminal Island, a thin, graying state prisoner shaved, ate some bran flakes and a banana and started a letter to his wife, before a convoy of heavily armed U.S. marshals took him to court....

Ahead of shareholder meeting, JPMorgan CEO Dimon is under pressure; fighting for chairman job

2013-05-19 17:30:03

NEW YORK (AP) — Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of the country's biggest bank, faces a key test this week: His shareholders are voting on whether to let him keep both jobs. It's been just more than a year since his bank, JPMorgan Chase, revealed a...

First Data in Hagerstown lays off 30 employees

2013-05-08 15:49:00

About 30 jobs have been cut at First Data in Hagerstown as part of a restructuring of the company, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the company. Company officials have been restructuring First Data, and that has led to a “difficult...

Mega Job Fair draws large crowd

2013-04-20 03:00:00

Stephen Vanmeter of Greencastle, Pa., who will finish school at Hagerstown Community College this spring, went to the Mega Job Fair on campus Friday to look for a full-time job in the information technology field that he could work while pursuing his...

USMH students trained in advance for job fair

2013-04-08 20:17:00

University System of Maryland at Hagerstown senior Samantha Sines is expecting to graduate this spring so she’s looking for a job. In preparation for job interviews, Sines participated last month in mock interviews with business people who gave her...

A 21st Century Way Of Collecting Sales Taxes

2013-04-03 09:26:20

If the state could add $200 million a year to its coffers without raising tax rates, giving handouts to corporations, borrowing on Wall Street or begging the Feds for more cash, most people would say, "Do it!" That's what a start-up firm from New York...

CTA boss wavers on Ventra at hearing

2013-04-02 02:00:00

CTA President Forrest Claypool on Monday appeared to alternate between playing the roles of an impartial party as well as a pitchman for the new Ventra transit card's controversial prepaid debit-account program. Claypool told state officials at a public...

Hagerstown man sentenced to three years probation in plea agreement in 2012 shooting

2013-04-01 18:43:00

A Hagerstown man entered a written guilty plea Monday in Washington County Circuit Court to a misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment as part of a plea agreement related to the case against another man in a 2012 shooting incident. Giancarlos Badia,...

CTA banking on extra Ventra cash

2013-03-28 04:59:00

The CTA will receive a cash infusion of at least a half-million dollars a year that won't come from the farebox, and some of it will be paid by customers who are hit by fees from the new Ventra prepaid debit card. The transit agency's Ventra fare system...

Team First Data at United Way of Broward County's 21st annual "Day of Caring," which took place Oct. 19 at SOS Children's Villages Florida. More than 800 volunteers worked on revamping children's bedrooms with new bedding, painting walls and murals and by building picnic tables.

2012-11-16 00:00:00

A pothole is shown Tuesday in the right-turn-only lane of U.S. 40 near First Data. The hole was patched Wednesday.

2012-02-26 12:48:16

First Data representative Stacie Webb, left, watches as her coworker, Emily Halsey-Kovaleski, chats with Raymond Taneyck Thursday at a job fair at the Washington County One Stop Job Center in Hagerstown. Taneyck is from Martinsburg, W.Va.

2011-08-25 15:04:05