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A Westminster man received a five-year sentence for calling one of the county's courthouses with a bomb threat last year to avoid an eviction proceeding.

St. Patrick's Day revelers hit Main Street early Tuesday morning dressed in bright green to take advantage of the Irish breakfasts and drink specials offered by local establishments to kick off a full day and night of holiday festivities.

Al Qaida has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists in Paris. The motive for the attack by the Kouachi brothers was to avenge what the brothers believed to be blasphemy against the prophet Mohammed. But there may be another motive for the timing of the terrorist attacks in Paris. Al Qaida has a penchant for timing some of its more spectacular attacks to coincide with the court trials of its operatives in captivity.

A Catonsville High School student has been charged with a threat of arson in connection with a bomb threat called into the school last Monday, said Cpl. John Wachter in a Tuesday, Jan. 20 statement.

Police are investigating a bomb threat called into the front office at Catonsville High School after 2 p.m. Monday, right before the school's normal dismissal time at 2:15 p.m., according to Baltimore County Police spokesman Cpl. John Wachter.

A Westminster man who called a bomb threat in to the District Court building in July entered a plea agreement Thursday and will be sentenced at a later date.

A Clarksville man apparently motivated by desperation pleaded guilty Tuesday to a bomb threat at a Howard County police station earlier this year that turned out to be a false alarm.

A Bel Air woman has been indicted for allegedly issuing a false bomb threat via social media against C. Milton Wright High School last week.

A Hampstead woman charged with making a bomb threat by telephone to the District Court of Maryland for Carroll County was released Tuesday after posting a combined $30,000 bond.

Todd Wheeler Jr., the Glen Burnie man accused of making bombs in his home, has been charged with a federal gun crime.

Todd Dwight Wheeler Jr., the Glen Burnie man charged with making bombs in his home, made his first court appearance on Friday morning.

Sochi may turn out to be a national humiliation for Russia and a political disaster for Putin himself.

At a pasta dinner before Saturday's Thunder Road Marathon, Nicole Gross said she would be celebrating survivorship this weekend as she walks across the finish line with her sister, Erika Brannock, and her husband, Michael, and her mother, Carol Downing.

Brannock Brannock, a Boston Marathon bombing victim, slides to the edge of her wheelchair. She looks down at a pair of carefully selected gray New Balance sneakers. And stands. Her thigh slides deeper into a soft plastic socket as she shifts her weight from her right leg to her new prosthetic leg. The bone where her left leg was amputated sends a sharp, shooting pain, and she starts to cry. Not because it hurts. Because she is about to walk again, her first steps in 173 days.

Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab have modified a generic set of rubbery, orange earplugs to develop an inexpensive "Anti-Blast Earplug" for use in wars.

The war in Iraq is over, and America's engagement in Afghanistan is winding down. Nonetheless, six Marylanders have been killed in those conflicts in the last year, bringing the total for the two wars to 120 dead. These are their names.

Taggants can help authorities trace explosives, but they're not used today because of NRA opposition

Friends and former classmates gathered Saturday at Johns Hopkins University to remember Anne Smedinghoff, a Foreign Service officer who killed by a bomb in Afghanistan earlier this month, sharing stories of a too-short life marked by adventure.

Doyle McManus: Terrorism did not increase after 9/11, despite predictions

Anne Arundel County Police on Thursday arrested a Ferndale man who they said called 911 and threatened a bomb attack similar to that of Monday's explosions at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured almost 200 others.

Anne Smedinghoff, 25, young diplomat who had attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore was among five Americans killed Saturday during a car bomb blast in Afghanistan.

A phoned-in bomb threat caused the evacuation of C. Milton Wright High School in Bel Air early Monday afternoon, Harford County Public Schools said.

An Army engineer was honored Feb. 9 as the Black Engineer of the Year, Most Promising Engineer - Government category at the BEYA STEM Conference in Washington, D.C

Atholton High School was evacuated Thursday afternoon after the school recieved a threat on the building, according to an email distributed by the school.

The terrorist mentality is rooted in hatred, not despair

Adam Lankford thinks there's a dangerous misconception that suicide terrorists are psychologically normal and sacrifice themselves to achieve a political goal.

Johns Hopkins doctors perform rare double transplant procedure on soldier Brendan Marrocco who lost all his limbs in Iraq War

Forrest Dimond, 54, of the 4800 block of Circling Hunter Street, faces three charges of threatening to explode a destructive device, three charges of falsely stating the location of a destructive device, and other charges after police used cell phone records to trace his phone to the threats.

Hearing loss is a widespread problem among service members that affects the quality of their lives and will worsen in decades to come. And it's largely preventable.

Despite increased police presence at five Harford County high schools Wednesday morning, the families of students at only two of the schools were notified of a potential bomb threat that day.

The Harford County Circuit Courthouse on Bel Air's Main Street received an unspecified bomb threat Thursday morning that the sheriff's office said proved to be unfounded.

Parents at at least two high schools in Bel Air have been put on alert about a possible bomb threat.

An Army sergeant from Baltimore has died while serving in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.

They were thinking a small, simple wedding but then they shot a video to enter a contest and now they're getting the wedding of their dreams.

Several organizations at Aberdeen Proving Ground are focused on stopping the signature weapon of the enemy in Afghanistan and Iraq: the Improvised Explosive Device, responsible for more than half the U.S. deaths in those two countries over the past decade.

Veterans, active duty troops, families and supporters gathered amid the flags and the grave markers at Dulaney Valley to remember the Maryland service members killed over the last year.

Making a bottle bomb — generally a plastic bottle that explodes after a chemical cleaner, a piece of aluminum foil and a little bit of water are placed inside to cause a gaseous chemical reaction — is no laughing matter, police say.

Maryland's gold star mothers are honoring the memory of their fallen sons and daughters by tending to the needs of those still fighting, the wounded, and the veterans.

Any hope that the arraignments of five men accused in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, might bring healing to family members a decade after they lost loved ones at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was stymied by a start-stop proceeding in which the defendants refused to participate.

Once a jihadist, Shiraz Maher now works to counter the radicalization of Muslim youth from his position as a professor at King's College in London. This spring, he's living in Chestertown and teaching a course in Middle Eastern politics at Washington College.