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The shooting of two teenagers Wednesday in a Frederick high school was particularly unnerving for a growing city in a largely rural county where many couldn't remember this ever happening before.

Two years after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., it's tempting to think of the horrific incident as a remote, rare event, unlikely to ever hit home. That would be naive. There have been at least two gun-related incidents in my children's Baltimore County school district in the past two years alone. And while school systems nationwide, including in Baltimore County, have spent a fortune on security measures since Sandy Hook, often following the NRA's advice of

Gov. Martin O'Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown are kidding themselves with the 2013 firearms safety act.

Given how frequent mass shootings have become, you'd think gun violence, not baseball, is the national pastime, David Horsey writes.

The skate apparel shop in Columbia where two people were shot and killed in January before the gunman took his own life is reopening today, according to officials at the Mall in Columbia.

It was riveting simulation of tragic events that in recent years have become all too real.

Months after being thrust into a national spotlight as the face of Howard County's response to a double murder-suicide at the Mall in Columbia, Police Chief William J. McMahon said Thursday that he is retiring in June after 28 years with the department.

The Zumiez store in the Columbia Mall that was the scene of a double murder-suicide on Jan. 25 is going to reopen "soon," a Columbia Mall spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Columbia Mall shooting again raises the question: What can be done to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't be allowed to own them?

The teenager who led a deadly January assault at the Mall in Columbia did not target his victims, but planned a killing spree inspired by the 1999 Columbine High School shootings, Howard County police revealed on Wednesday.

Howard County police said Wednesday that the suspect in January's fatal shooting at the Mall in Columbia had no connection to his victims, and that he may have had a fixation with the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.

About 40 percent of active shooter incidents occur in places of business, yet most companies have not prepared their employees for that possibility. This needs to change; businesses are legally and morally obligated to provide a safe and secure workplace environment, and active shooter training should be a part of that.

Looking back at the month of October 2013 in Harford County.

Aberdeen Mayor Mike Bennett made his feelings known on bullying issues in his community's high school Thursday, responding to a Facebook post written by Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice regarding bullying at Dundalk High School.

On Tuesday, Oct. 8, during an anti-bullying assembly, star Raven running back Ray Rice made a special appearance to talk to the school about his experiences with bullying. Rice talked with the entire student body in an assembly as well as private groups, the Varsity Football team and the Best Buddies organization

As students and teachers returned to classrooms across Harford County this week, law enforcement and public school officials say they have worked to ensure they came back to a secure environment.

Bill Press says the Manchin-Toomey compromise on guns isn't perfect but still represents major progress.

A Connecticut school shooting so horrifying that it may convince Obama and the Democrats to challenge the NRA at last

The shooting at Perry Hall High School is an event that has resonated for a lot of people and, for me, it hit pretty close to home.

The shooting at Perry Hall High School has raised questions about how shotguns are treated under state law and how firearms are kept from children.

Perpetrators are generally not angry loners but 'failed joiners' who are hoping to impress their peers

Typically, Orioles first-round draft pick Kevin Gausman tries to bury the fact that he¿s from Aurora, Colo., the site of Friday¿s tragic movie theater shooting. But after the area he grew up in was victimized, Gausman said he became a proud Auroran.

Possibly the only thing more disturbing than the realization that someone was on campus at a school in Harford County this week making threats to kill people is the reaction of the school and its public safety component.

Baltimore County reported the highest suspension rate of any Maryland district apart from the Eastern Shore in the last school year, despite its efforts to focus on discipline that doesn't require students to miss classroom time.

Smartphones and security apps are starting to hit college campuses. The University of Maryland developed its own app that broadcasts live video and audio, plus a user's location, if they become a crime victim.