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My past roles at the Sun have included crime and metro reporting. I also was part of an early-morning breaking news team that produced fast-breaking online news and web video reports.

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T. Rowe Price sees Facebook investment more than triple in a year 5/18/2012
T. Rowe Price Group's stake in Facebook Inc. more than tripled in value as the social networking giant went public Friday.

Report: Clinical trials of new medications help create jobs in Maryland 5/18/2012
Maryland has hosted 1,775 clinical trials for new medicines targeting six major chronic diseases since 1999, including 369 that are still in the early stages of recruiting patients, according to a study by two pharmaceutical industry groups released Friday.

Baltimore firm develops automatic rifle for military, SWAT 5/14/2012
Adcor Industries competing with major gunmakers for Army contract to replace M4 carbine The Army's next-generation carbine may come out of a Highlandtown machine shop best known for making high-volume bottling equipment for major drink makers.

Millennial Media posts loss in first quarter as a public company 5/14/2012
Mobile ad firm eyes rapid growth, expansion as it posts expected $4 million loss Millennial Media Inc., a Baltimore-based mobile advertising firm, posted its first quarterly results as a public company Monday. The results included a $4 million loss but were in line with Wall Street's expectations.

Local biotech firm wins grant to develop vaccines for two viruses 5/9/2012
Profectus BioSciences gets NIH grant to support development of vaccine for two contagious and lethal viruses Profectus BioSciences Inc., a Baltimore-based biotechnology company, said Wednesday that it won a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the development of a vaccine for a pair of contagious and deadly viruses that the U.S. government has classified as biological and agricultural threats. The viruses are found in other parts of the world.