The Daily Record (Baltimore)

M&T Securities Buys Pikesville-Based Peremel

M&T Securities Inc. completed its acquisition of a Baltimore brokerage firm from PNC Investments LLC Thursday, as part of the company's effort to broaden its investment presence in Maryland. Buffalo-based M&T acquired Peremel & Co., a Pikesville-based firm that was established in 1974, for an undisclosed amount. Peremel's eight employees will remain with the company in its Baltimore County headquarters.

Alison Asti Returns to Gordon Feinblatt in Baltimore

Alison L. Asti will rejoin her old firm, Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander L.L.C., where she will head the sports and economic development practice group. Asti is immediate past president of the Maryland State Bar Association and former executive director and general counsel of the Maryland Stadium Authority, a government body that oversees entertainment and sports facilities.

Marylanders On the Move: September 5, 2008

ACCOUNTING Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates P.A. has made several staff promotions. Mark Tobin was promoted from supervisor to manager. Richard Shank, Andrea Grissinger, Elizabeth Roberg and Douglas Bishop were promoted from semi-senior accountant to senior accountant. Gerald Von Ahn and David Leipnik were promoted from entry-level accountant to semi-senior accountant.

Week in Review

National Cancer Institute designation The University of Maryland said this week it had earned the National Cancer Institute's recognition, an honor shared by 63 of the nation's elite cancer-research hubs. The designation will give the University of Maryland School of Medicine and its affiliated hospital, the University of Maryland Medical Center, up to $3 million in funding over the next three years, along with access to other sources of money.

For Baltimore Ravens, Marketing Only Starts with 71,000 Fans On Sundays

Purple camouflage. Face paint. The smell of sizzling sausage on the grill. And a sea of purple, white and black jerseys as far as the eye can see. To Ravens fans, the hoopla is just a regular Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium, and Sunday's scheduled season opener against the Cincinnati Bengals is expected to be no different. The show is a seemingly effortless flow of supply and incredible demand -- as team marketing director Gabrielle Dow puts it, "We have a waiting list for our waiting list for sea...

The Daily Record News Briefs: September 5, 2008

Martek outpaces expectations Martek Biosciences Corp., of Columbia, which manufactures nutritional oils from algae, reported net income for its fiscal third quarter ended July 31 of $9.3 million, or 28 cents per diluted share, up 47 percent compared with $6.1 million, or 19 cents per diluted share, in 2007's third quarter. Revenue rose 14 percent to $88.4 million from $77.8 million in the year-ago period. The results for both earnings and revenue exceeded analysts' estimates. Company official...

Letters to the Editor

Emissions curbs will not cost Md. jobs The article entitled "Report: Curbing emissions would bring Md. $2B in benefits" (Aug. 28) highlights the economic benefits detailed in the Maryland Climate Change Commission's Climate Action Plan.

Md. Court of Appeals Rules Rugmaker Not Liable for Councilman's Death

A drug manufacturing company does not "owe a duty to the world," including the victim of a fatal car crash caused by a diabetic driver, the state's highest court held. The Court of Appeals refused to impose liability on Eli Lilly and Co. for the 2002 death of former Prince George's County Councilman Isaac J. "Ike" Gourdine, who was killed after driver Ellen Crews suffered an adverse reaction to diabetes medication.

B. Sifrit Shifts Attack On Murder Conviction From State Court in Md. To Federal

An ex-Navy SEAL found guilty of murdering a tourist in an Ocean City condominium in 2002 is urging a federal court to throw out the conviction, saying the state violated his right to a fair trial by presenting a contradictory theory of how the crime occurred when it prosecuted his wife for the same slaying. Prosecutors at Benjamin "B.J." Sifrit's trial argued that he was the principal gunman, but at his wife's subsequent trial, the same prosecutors said she bore primary responsibility, Sifrit...