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Home foreclosure rate up 14.5 percent from a year ago

Prince George's County again had the state's highest home foreclosure rate in July, with one filing per 153 households, according to new data from RealtyTrac of Irvine, Calif. That was up 18.4 percent from June and 14.5 percent from a year earlier.

With one filing per 335 households, Maryland had the 10th highest rate in the U.S., up 10.4 percent from June and 35.1 percent from a year earlier.

Noodles & Co. opens

in Bowie today

Noodles & Co., a restaurant that serves made-to-order noodles and other international food, is set to open today at the Bowie Town Center, 3916 Town Center Blvd.

The restaurant is the Broomfield, Colo., chain's 15th location in Maryland.

ASRC lands $250M award

for NASA Goddard work

ASRC Management Services of Greenbelt has received a $250 million contract to develop and validate new technologies for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.

Through this five-year contract, ASRC will support the design, development, flight and nonflight fabrication, testing and operations of spaceflight and ground system operations. The deal will provide continued or new employment for about 200 people, with work beginning Monday, according to company information.

Also, parent ASRC Federal Holding agreed to acquire Mission Solutions Engineering of Arlington, Va., from CSC of Falls Church, Va. Terms were not disclosed.

Stinger Ghaffarian wins $183M NASA contract

Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies of Greenbelt has received a NASA contract worth up to $183 million during five years to support the Langley Research Center.

The company is to provide a range of computing support functions for systems that manage research and development and business applications.

Radio One reports $2.5M profit for second quarter

Radio One of Lanham reported a second-quarter profit of $2.5 million, down from $8.3 million for the same time last year. Revenues rose to $75.2 million from $69.9 million a year earlier.

"The recovery in radio revenues continued in the second quarter, led by national business, which was up 17 percent," CEO Alfred C. Liggins III said in a statement. "Our internet business is growing strongly, with revenues up 48 percent from the second quarter of 2009, and we continue to believe that our on-line platform will be a major source of revenue."

Social service group

names new director

The Cloudburst Group of Landover, which enhances programs for socially and economically disadvantaged people, has named Ajay Vatave director of its Center for Public Health.

Vatave, who has more than 10 years of clinical and public health experience, will manage Cloudburst's Atlanta office and be responsible for managing its business in health communications, program planning and technical assistance services.

MedAssurant partners with national health care group

MedAssurant of Bowie is teaming up with the National Committee for Quality Assurance, which maintains the health care effectiveness data used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The partnership will help develop quality measures that the committee is producing under a contract with the federal agency.

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