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The dedication of a memorial garden in Annapolis Friday morning launched a day-long commemoration of the Capital Gazette shootings one year ago.

The worst day in the 250-year-plus history of the Capital Gazette newspaper changed the survivors. Yet they remain defiant as well.

One year later; The five victims of the Capital Gazette shooting left behind both physical mementos now precious to their families, as well as larger legacies.

A series of events will honor the five Capital Gazette employees killed a year ago after a gunman opened fire in their Annapolis offices.

‘Love Punch,” a collection of columns written by former Capital Gazette editor Rob Hiaasen, will be released on June 28, the first anniversary of the mass shooting that claimed five lives.

The staff of the Capital Gazette and the Baltimore Sun jointly won the American Society of News Editors' breaking news award for their coverage of the Capital Gazette shooting.

The General Assembly has voted unanimously to name June 28 “Freedom of the Press Day” in Maryland to honor the five victims who died in the Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis on that date last year.

Rachael Pacella doesn’t know if proposed legislation requiring rifles and shotguns to be regulated like handguns would prevent another mass shooting, like the one she survived in June in Annapolis. But, Pacella told state legislators, if stricter laws stop even one more death, that would be enough.

Maryland House Speaker Michael Busch on Tuesday named five recipients of the Speaker’s Medallion, the chamber’s highest honor: The victims of the Capital-Gazette shooting, Wendi Winters, Rebecca Smith, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen and John McNamara.

Maryland’s top political leaders are supporting a plan to rename the State House’s main press work area in honor of the five employees who were killed at The Capital newspaper office last year.

Six months later, the mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom remains a defining event, for survivors, of course, but also the Annapolis community and the journalism profession.

The exhibit focuses on how the tiny staff of the Capital Gazette, part of the Baltimore Sun Media Group, put out a newspaper the day after the mass shooting.

The first responders at an active assailant workshop in Annapolis on Thursday didn't have to look far for examples to learn from - there was the Capital Gazette shooting in June, the Rite Aid shooting in Harford County in September and on Wednesday the nightclub shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Jarrod Ramos' attorney has requested a hearing for a "good cause" extension, which would give him more time to consider a potential plea of not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. He is charged in the deaths of five Capital Gazette employees.

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said he donated to a Capital Gazette victims fundraiser.

Jarrod Ramos, the Laurel man accused of blasting his way into the Capital Gazette newsroom last month and killing five staff members, was scheduled to make his first appearance in Anne Arundel Circuit Court on Monday but the hearing was taken off the docket.

Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Laura A. Kiessling has been assigned to preside over the case of the man accused of killing five Capital Gazette staffers last month.

“Her life in the community speaks to her commitment to American values," Mikulski wrote.

Anne Arundel County prosecutors filed a 23-count indictment on Friday against Jarrod Warren Ramos, the suspect in the deadly shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom last month.

Thousands of people have contributed nearly $685,000 to a pair of funds created after the June 28 mass shooting in the Capital Gazette newsroom, and donations small and large continue to come in.

Fellow journalists remember their five fallen colleagues at memorial in Annapolis

Prosecutors have asked jail officials to give them regular access to letters Capital Gazette killing suspect Jarrod Ramos sends or receives, but on Thursday his attorneys said the move violates his rights and that they intend to fight it.

The Senate resolution cites the history of the Capital Gazette — which dates back to 1727 — as one of the oldest newspapers in the United States. It also honors the institution of journalism as a cornerstone of American democracy.

Congress paused for a moment of silence Wednesday afternoon to honor the victims of the June 28 shooting at the Capital Gazette’s Annapolis newsroom.

In the wake of the Capital-Gazette shootings, what happened to other buildings where mass shootings took place? There is no template for dealing with them. It's largely up to owners and the affected community.

Desperate to do something in the face of such horror, Michael Kirby — a renowned chalk artist who lends his talents to the Madonnari Arts Festival each September — brought his chalk kits to South High Street in Little Italy, where he has created lifelike portraits of each of the victims.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has ordered U.S. and New Jersey flags to fly at half-staff Tuesday to honor victims of the Capital Gazette shooting.

What we know about the attack on the Annapolis Capital Gazette newsroom Thursday.

Trif Alatzas, publisher and editor in chief of The Baltimore Sun Media Group, called for staff in Annapolis, Carroll and Baltimore to hold a moment of silence exactly a week after a man shot five Capital Gazette employees in the Annapolis newsroom.

Friends, family and co-workers on Thursday remembered Rob Hiassen, one of five journalists killed in a mass shooting at the Capital Gazette last week, at a memorial service.

President Donald Trump has declined a request from Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley to lower American flags in honor of the fatal shooting of five employees of The Capital newspaper last week.

A 38-year-old Laurel man was charged in killing five people and injuring two more at the Capital Gazette newspaper. Here's what we know about him.

The words of all three staffers left me feeling positive, strong and inspired about the future of journalism.

Though Maryland has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country, none of them could have prevented the massacre of five people in the Annapolis Capital newsroom Thursday. The weapon police say was used, a pump-action rifle, isn't regulated by state law.

A new fundraiser has been set up for those interested in donating to the families, victims and survivors of the mass shooting at The Annapolis Capital Gazette, the newspaper’s owner announced Friday. A scholarship fund has also been set up for journalism students at the University of Maryland.

A Bloomberg journalist has raised over $183,900 toward a $200,000 goal to help the Annapolis shooting victims through a GoFundMe page.

A moment by moment account of the rampage that left five Capital Gazette staff members dead.

At vigil for the Capital shooting victims, a wish that the nation could feel he healing breeze

About 300 mourners gathered Friday to honor the five employees who were killed Thursday after a gunman blasted his way through the glass door of the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis.

The Orioles remembered Thursday's victims of the mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom with a memorial in the press box at the newspaper's seat and a moment of silence before Friday's game against the Los Angeles Angels.

The 38-year-old Laurel man accused of gunning down five employees of The Capital on Thursday swore a “legal oath” in court documents to kill a writer for the Annapolis newspaper. Yet he legally purchased the pump-action shotgun he allegedly used in the rampage, authorities said Friday.

Gianluca Costantini, an artist and cartoonist, said the Capital Gazette shooting reminded him of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack. So, he decided to draw about it.

Online harassment and hatred appears to have led to the killings at the Annapolis Capital Gazette — and followed it, too.

Gov. Larry Hogan has ordered the Maryland flag lowered to half-staff Friday, and a pair of candlelight vigils are planned for Friday night in Annapolis to honor the victims of the mass shooting at the Capital Gazette.

Journalists dove under their desks and pleaded for help on social media. One described the scene a “war zone.” Another said he jumped over a dead colleague and fled for his life.

Here’s what people are saying about the fatal shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis.