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Federal prosecutors in August 2012 announced that two men, Bryan Eammon Williams and Lawrence Lee Hayes, had been sentenced to 11 years and 15 years respectively for their roles in a cocaine distribution conspiracy. The details of the case are rather fascinating if you keep reading, and even moreso if you start connecting dots.  The press release about Hayes' and Williams' sentences includes a canned quote from Ava Cooper-Davis, the special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Washington field office, calling the case "drug interdiction at its best.

PPL Park in Chester, Pa., will host the Atlantic Coast Conference men's lacrosse tournament in 2014 and 2015, the conference announced Wednesday. It will mark the first time in eight years that the tournament has been held at a neutral site. The 18,500-seat stadium, home to Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union, will be the host venue for the ACC on April 25-27, 2014, and again in the spring of 2015. Next season will be the fourth time in the 26-year history of the tournament that the event has been held at a neutral site.

City police and the FBI are investigating the robbery of an M&T bank near Johns Hopkins University in Charles Village on Saturday morning. Police say the robbery occurred at 10:04 a.m. at 3003 North Charles St., which is Hopkins Square. No other information is available. alisonk@baltsun.com twitter.com/aliknez

George G. Litz, former owner of one of the Baltimore area's largest brick distribution companies, died Feb. 11 of cancer at his Owings Mills home. He was 64. The son of a brick company executive and a homemaker, George Galvin Litz was born in Baltimore and raised on Cedarcroft Road. He was a 1967 graduate of City College and attended Loyola University Maryland. He then joined L & L Supply Co., the Lutherville business that had been founded in 1955 by his father, Donald P. Litz Sr., and John F. Leonard, who had worked together at the old United Clay & Supply Co. In 1975, he inherited L & L Supply Co. and continued operating it until last year when he sold it to Glen-Gery Brick, a division of Oldcastle Co. Mr. Litz had said that one of his "great passions in life" was the fact that his company supplied the brick that built Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium.

Just when you thought the nameplate on your bank and football stadium would stop changing, the Maryland bank with the second-largest number of deposits became the subject of merger speculation, big stock swings and international headlines. M&T Bank Corp. was in combination talks until recently with Banco Santander SA, a global giant based in Spain, according to news reports. Last week, instead of getting a merger, M&T stock owners watched the bank's biggest shareholder dump its entire stake, a turnabout that caused M&T shares to fall below $77 after trading above $90 last month.

A former assistant vice president of M&T Bank pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to being involved with a scheme to defraud one of the bank's customers and a federal institution, prosecutors said. Baltimore resident Rosamaria T. Somarriba, 67, admitted to transferring funds out of the accounts of one of the bank's corporate customers for her own benefit, according to a statement Tuesday from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. Some of the funds she stole belonged to the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

M&T Bank Corp. is expected to close Monday on the purchase of Wilmington Trust Corp. after receiving all regulatory approvals required under the deal, M&T announced Thursday. Delaware-based Wilmington Trust, struggling with bad real estate loans, agreed in November to sell itself to Buffalo, N.Y.-based M&T for $351 million. Wilmington Trust Corp. does not operate retail branches in Maryland. It has wealth management and corporate client offices in Baltimore and Bel Air. M&T Bank officials have said they will retain the 35 employees in those two offices.

The Federal Reserve Board has approved M&T Bank Corp.'s application to acquire Wilmington Trust Corp. The Delaware-based Wilmington Trust Corp., struggling with bad real estate loans, agreed in November to sell itself to Buffalo, N.Y.-based M&T for $351 million. A Baltimore-based unit of the corporation, Wilmington Trust Federal Savings Bank, entered into an agreement with federal regulators to boost capital levels and reduce bad loans on its books in February. The savings bank provides commercial banking and wealth management.

It was business as anything but usual Saturday morning at Baltimore-area branches of K Bank, the latest Maryland financial institution to fail this year. Hours earlier, K Bank had been shuttered by regulators, then taken over by M&T Bank. The new owners deployed its employees to the seven branches to reassure customers they had nothing to worry about. Not all were convinced. Several of the c ustomers waiting to be helped at the branch on Baltimore National Pike in Ellicott City planned to close their accounts.

Baltimore-based Wilmington Trust Federal Savings Bank, which provides commercial banking and wealth management, has entered into an agreement with federal regulators to boost capital levels and reduce bad loans on its books. The agreement, reached last month, comes as the bank's parent, Wilmington Trust Corp., is being acquired by M&T Bank Corp., but bank officials and analysts said the regulatory scrutiny is not expected to affect the merger. The Office of Thrift Supervision found that Wilmington Trust Federal Savings "has engaged in unsafe or unsound practices.

Coleen Deems sat down after every Ravens season and wrote a letter to the team, asking it to ban smoking at the stadium. This year, when her 10-year-old grandson looked up and said, “I have to hold my breath,” while walking past a designated smoking area at M&T Bank Stadium, the 11-year season-ticket holder became more determined and considered tracking down the personal email address of team owner Steve Bisciotti. She didn't have to, and the Ravens won't need to decide how to deal with the divisive issue.

City police and the FBI are investigating the robbery of an M&T bank near Johns Hopkins University in Charles Village on Saturday morning. Police say the robbery occurred at 10:04 a.m. at 3003 North Charles St., which is Hopkins Square. No other information is available. alisonk@baltsun.com twitter.com/aliknez

Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake will bring their "Legends of the Summer" stadium tour to M&T Bank Stadium on Aug. 8, Live Nation announced this morning. Tickets go on sale Feb. 28, but fans can RSVP for early access to presale tickets on this Facebook page . The tour kicks off at Toronto's Rogers Centre on July 17, and will cover 12 dates total. The tour ends in Miami on Aug. 16. Concerts at the Ravens' stadium are typically reserved for pop music's most significant acts.

The four new LED boards will give Ravens' fans constant updates of out-of-town scores and fantasy football stats, along with different vantage points on replays. Two new high-definition boards will greet those who enter M&T Bank Stadium from Gates A or D, showing live game broadcasts and Ravens' highlights. The lower concourse will have a completely new look with open-kitchen styled concession stands, expanded team retail stores, wood and steel columns and purple lighting. The upper concourse will undergo a similar transformation one year later.

Fresh off their second Super Bowl title, the Ravens will raise ticket prices at M&T Bank Stadium for the 2013-14 season, their first increase in four years and their sixth since their downtown stadium opened in 1998. When season ticket holders get their renewal letters this week, they'll see an average increase of 10 percent per ticket in the seating bowl area, according to Kevin Byrne, the Ravens senior vice president for public and community relations. That does not include club or suite level seats, which will likely see a smaller increase from last season.

The Lombardi Trophy finally made it inside M&T Bank Stadium after the Ravens' championship parade snaked through the streets of Baltimore. Tens of thousands of fans lined the streets of Baltimore, and M&T Bank Stadium is at full capacity. Police and stadium officials had to start turning down other fans at the doors. Downtown was so packed, even the Ravens were a little late for their own parade. After stopping off at City Hall, the Ravens arrived at the stadium via handmade floats and high-tech military vehicles.

It might have been trash-talking, but Jamal Lewis made good on his promise. The young Baltimore Raven broke the single-day rushing record by running for 295 yards in the 2003 home opener at the stadium newly rechristened for the company that had bought the naming rights, M&T Bank. Today, though, the now retired Lewis and M&T are linked in court rather than on the field. Lewis filed for bankruptcy in Georgia in April, listing $14.5 million in assets and $10.6 million in debts — among them, a more than $350,000 judgment on a defaulted loan from the bank whose name hangs over the Ravens' stadium.

The folks at Aramark sent over some game-day recipes from M&T Bank Stadium's Executive Chef Joe Bachman . There was one for Maryland crab cakes, another for pit beef sandwiches, but I thou ght you'd want to see the one for Maryland Crab Tots. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Aramark is the exclusive food and beverage partner for M&T Bank Stadium. Here's the recipe for Maryland Crab Tots from M&T Bank Stadium: •    2 pounds tots (any supermarket brand will do)

Baltimore might have missed out on hosting World Cup matches when the U.S. lost its bid for the quadrennial event in 2022, but M&T Stadium will be part of another prestigious international soccer tournament when the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup comes to the city in July. M&T Bank Stadium is one of 13 venues that were announced Wednesday as hosts for the regional championship event. CONCACAF is the governing body for association soccer in North America, Central America and the Caribbean.