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Rodney H. Peterson, a retired Chessie System construction engineer and lifelong rail fan and noted railroad photographer, died Friday of liver cancer and heart failure at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson. He was 89.

Three mass shooting incidents in three years has led to the usual media driven question, what is happening in Harford County?

Legion posts in Arbutus and Catonsville will both be hosting Memorial Day ceremonies that are open to the public.

Funeral services will be held later this week for Staff Sgt. James Aaron Carpenter, who died March 23 in his home at Aberdeen Proving Ground, post officials said.

An Army vet says automatic voter registration would benefit everyone, but particularly those in the military.

Dr. James H. Kelly, former chairman of Greater Baltimore Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology whose research centered on swallowing disorders, died Thursday from a blood clot at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Ruxton resident was 74.

Safety rules shape and guide our lives from childhood to adulthood. Looking to remove or impinge upon our Second Amendment rights is not the solution to gun violence. At the same time, however, we cannot remain impassive.

We are a nation led by too many men and women today who have no sense of honor. That's the thought on which I ended a binge screening of the seven-part National Geographic mini-series with last Sunday. Events on the media and politics beat this week have only deepened my belief in that feeling.

Is Las Vegas destined to join the ranks of mass shootings ignored by Congress?

A soldier from Baltimore who was assigned to a unit at Fort Hood drowned in Texas lake over the weekend, the Army said.

The death of Army Staff Sgt. Mark R. De Alencar, an Edgewood resident and 1998 Joppatowne High School graduate, was the first since 20014 among people with

Trump's immigration order is as un-American as it will be ineffective (or worse); the public can't let him get away with it.

Nearly 200 Maryland National Guardsmen parted with their families at the base in Edgewood Sunday, boarded buses and left for a month's training in Fort Hood, Texas. They are scheduled to serve nine months in the Middle East.

A soldier from Takoma Park died Tuesday at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda of wounds from a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan last month, the Defense Department said.

Orlando, Fla., was as likely a place as any for another violent act to attack our sensibilities.

Tom Zirpoli called some federal and state legislators hypocrites for calling for the end of gun-free zones in schools and other places while working in gun-free

From the death of Freddie Gray last year in Baltimore to the takeover of a federal building this week in Oregon, the language used in media to describe news events often becomes as controversial as the facts of what happened.

Taking in refugees hurts our country

The U.S. Army's only formation that combats chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threats conducted a change of command ceremony on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., May 20.

The week of Thanksgiving, 48-year-old Sgt. Maj. Wardell Turner was caught in a car bomb attack in Kabul and killed along with another American soldier. As the only native Marylander killed in combat last year, Sgt. Maj. Turner's family will come to Baltimore and visit Dulaney Valley cemetery to attend a Memorial Day ceremony honoring him.

Political pundits like to label gratuitous political gaffes as "unforced errors" — mistakes that come out of right field without warning or reason. Many conservatives misinterpret the president's — and his surrogates' — consistent, predictable actions as examples of such unforced errors.

Charles Edward Creek Jr., a retired Army intelligence analyst, paratrooper and Vietnam War veteran, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

John Clagett Nuttle, a retired Rouse Company executive who worked to build the Village of Cross Keys and Columbia, died of heart failure Dec. 31 at the Blakehurst Retirement Community. The former Ruxton resident was 92.

The Democrats have led the country astray; vote them out.

Army Maj. Gen. Bruce Crawford says he regularly sees people come up and thank soldiers and he wants to make sure that continues.

Franklin Waters "Buck" Trapnell Jr., a retired Army colonel who served in Vietnam, died of a heart attack May 31 while visiting family near Richmond, Va. The former Roland Park resident was 77.

A series of recent federal reports have raised concerns with safety in small field offices scattered across the country, where federal employees at the IRS, Social Security Administration and other agencies are more likely to interact with the public.

This was Stevenson University's first lockdown and shelter-in-place incident. I say first with the sincere hope that it will be our last but with the understanding that we can never afford to make that assumption. I think that I can speak for all in our campus community — students, families, faculty, and staff — when I say that it was a sobering experience that woke us all up to the contemporary world in which we live. There are some lessons from this event that will help us, and

During an interview on the recent Fort Hood shootings committed by Army Spec. Ivan Lopez, who killed three people then himself, CNN's Chris Cuomo suggested that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder be referred to as just Post Traumatic Stress — leaving off "disorder" because of the "stigma" associated with the term. This is a clear example of the futility of eliminating stigma through rhetorical fiat. It simply cannot be done. The issue is decades old, and there is little, if any, reason to

Arming more people is not a formula for making schools or communities safer despite what the NRA may claim

Fort Hood shooting another indicator that U.S. should invest more in helping returning vets

Fort Hood shooting another example of nation's poor military leadership

Columbia mourns its shooting victims and returns to a semblance of normalcy but remains haunted by the unanswered question, why?

As FBI agents investigating the Black Guerrilla Family gang closed in on a new round of suspects in the Baltimore jail corruption case this fall, one of their targets packed his bags and left the country.

Security procedures at the Washington Navy Yard in the nation's capital were in the public eye this week after a shooting rampage left 13 people, including the gunman, dead Monday, especially after the shooter, 34-year-old contract worker Aaron Alexis, used his security pass to enter the facility.

The deadly shooting at one of the region's largest military facilities reopened a debate Monday about whether U.S. officials have done enough to secure the nation's massive portfolio of domestic bases.

Steven D. Rosen, a sales manager for a Cockeysville furniture company, died Saturday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center after being injured in a fall. He was 61.

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