First Mariner Bancorp

Provident Bankshares Corp. announced yesterday that it received $151 million from a federal program designed to spur lending. Maryland's largest independent bank received the maximum amount an institution of its size is allowed under the voluntary...

First Mariner Bancorp said yesterday it lost $2.28 million in the third quarter because of the weak housing market and an investment in Washington Mutual, the lender seized by regulators last month. The loss of 36 cents a share is less than that of a...

Six months after Baltimore banker Edwin F. Hale Sr. dropped out of a plan to erect an Inner Harbor statue to honor former Maryland Gov. William Donald Schaefer, another local businessman has offered to complete the project as a gift to the city....

With recent polls showing a drop in popular support for slot machines, pro-slots forces in Maryland are ratcheting up their campaign for November's referendum. And as a budget crisis worsens, Gov. Martin O'Malley plans to visibly promote the slots...

Many of the city's most prominent developers propose building Baltimore's new indoor sports and concert arena outside of downtown and pairing the facility with ambitious waterfront projects or struggling areas in need of a boost. Ed Hale wants the new...

In what would be the biggest single residential development in Baltimore in recent memory, banker Edwin F. Hale Sr. plans to build more than 1,000 upscale condos, apartments and townhouses in Greektown in a project that would radically transform the...

General Motors, which closed its 70-year-old Baltimore manufacturing plant in May, expects to fast-track the sale of the 185-acre industrial property on the city's eastern fringe. Dozens of developers have expressed interest or toured the Broening...

Executives and board members at some of Maryland's most profitable companies have lucrative side arrangements with the companies they run and oversee. Edwin F. Hale Sr., the chairman, chief executive and largest stockholder at First Mariner Bancorp,...

Baltimore Blast soccer team owner Edwin F. Hale Sr. and a billboard company stand to make more than $1 million a year by covering the city-owned 1st Mariner Arena in Times Square-style signs, experts say, but the cash-strapped city probably would not...

At a time when even his critics might think he's suffered enough, the torment of Marvin Mandel continues. Almost exactly 20 years after his conviction in 1977 on charges of political corruption, the former two-term governor of Maryland watches helplessly...