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The terrorist mentality is rooted in hatred, not despair

A constitutional law professor says even recent Supreme Court decisions on the 2nd Amendment don't prevent infusing the gun control conversation with some common sense.

If we make our definition of terrorism about the action not the ideology, then accused Colorado shooter James Holmes qualifies as a terrorist.

Aberdeen and Havre de Grace high schools will receive a grant for advanced placement and training from NMSI, Boeing and the Department of Defense Education Activity

A 27-year-old former U.S. Army infantryman was found dead in his Baltimore County apartment Saturday afternoon, police said.

Davon T. Kelly has been promoted to the rank of private first class in the U.S. Army

A besieged al-Qaida, weakened by 10 years of war and the killing of Osama bin Laden and other leaders, is focusing much of its attention on inspiring recruits in the United States and other nations to carry out attacks the terror group itself might no longer be able to mount.

A Maryland National Guard unit has returned from Iraq ahead of schedule, the first Marylanders to come home early since President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of all U.S. forces by the end of the year.

Dorothy Lee says it will be good to get her grandson back home from Iraq. But the Havre de Grace woman will believe it when she sees him.

Drone strike on American-born radical cleric raises difficult questions.

Myron O. "Mike" Beatty, a retired paint company executive, died of pulmonary fibrosis complications June 26 at Homewood at Plum Creek in Hanover, Pa. The former Lutherville resident was 84.

Al-Qaida in Pakistan and Afghanistan is fading into irrelevance, but the U.S. still has much to worry about from the terrorist group's Yemen-based offshoot.

The Baltimore-area man accused of plotting to blow up a military recruiting station appeared to drift into extremism, co-workers say.

Authorities say an individual has been arrested in the Baltimore area for plotting to blow up a military recruitment center.

The suspect in the attempted bombing of the Army recruiting center in Catonsville apparently drew inspiration from an array of websites and radical Islamic leaders, including a U.S.-born cleric who has been targeted for assassination by the Obama administration, according to an FBI affidavit.