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Plumsteadville, Pa. — Spilling out from a helicopter door, rose petals and delicate purple and blue flowers rained down on hundreds of mourners gathered Sunday to remember Towson pilot David E. Jenny Jr. - Columbia-based AirPatrol Corporation will expand its operation in Howard County, a move County Executive Ken Ulman said affirms Howard's reputation as a good place to do business in cybersecurity.
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- The general who led the Pentagon's review of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history told a military judge on Wednesday that their publication revealed tactics, strained relations with some allies and caused some Afghans to stop cooperating with Americans.
- Anne Arundel County school board member Andrew Pruski said Tuesday that he will run for county council in this year's upcoming election.
- While authorities haven't disclosed who was flying the helicopter that crashed Saturday in Pennsylvania, killing five, David Jenny, 30, was the only certified pilot on board. He was recalled by family and associates as an adventurous man who loved to fly.
- A military judge ruled Tuesday that Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning violated the Espionage Act when he gave a trove of classified material to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks to publish online. But Col. Denise Lind found the onetime Marylander not guilty of aiding the enemy.
- Investigators do not suspect foul play in the death last week of a service member's spouse at Fort Meade, a base spokeswoman said.
- Who would have guessed 15 years ago that Martin Roesch's free computer network security program would turn into a $2.7 billion deal? Not Roesch, founder of Columbia-based Sourcefire, which just agreed to sell itself to tech giant Cisco Systems for that eye-popping figure.
- Senior Airman Keegan McCaskie was found dead June 26 at a hotel in Lake Dallas, Texas. He was on leave from his job with the 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing at Fort Meade.
- Authorities are investigating the death of a spouse of a service member at Fort Meade.
- James Smith Jr., 71, is taking the helm of a 10,000-employee agency that oversees highways, bridges, tunnels, BWI Marshall Airport, the Port of Baltimore, the Motor Vehicle Administration and mass transit.
- Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning was looking for "worldwide notoriety" when he gave hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, a military prosecutor said Thursday.
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- The event, "Words into Action: Spotlight on Veterans," will be held at the Neighbor Ride offices at 5570 Sterrett Place. Neighbor Ride, La Casa De Sweets and vCaring are community partners with the Volunteer Center, which acts as a clearinghouse recruiting potential volunteers and referring them to various local non-profit and government organizations.
- Mission BBQ plans to expand to California, Canton and York, Pa.
- The Naval Academy Museum is now a casualty of Defense Department furloughs.
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- Mary Theresa Nipwoda, a lab technician at Aberdeen Proving Ground, did what she could to prepare for the 20-percent pay cut she knew was coming this week.
- Lorraine Augusta Willis, a retired National Security Agency employee, died of a brain hemorrhage June 30 at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The former Annapolis and Arnold resident was 87.
- Attorneys for Pfc. Bradley Manning opened their defense of the Army analyst Monday by portraying him as a computer whiz operating under loose guidelines whose decision to leak reams of classified documents was based on a well-intentioned sense of idealism.
- U.S. commerce "would grind to a halt in a matter of days" in the wake of a crippling cyber attack that the nation's ports — including Baltimore — are ill prepared for, according to a new Brookings Institution report. But Port of Baltimore officials called the report "misleading and factually incorrect."
- The Howard County Veterans Affairs Commission, established in 2011, works to help veterans in the county access benefit services.
- Peter Lopez, with daughters Isabella and Christiana, 10, was one of a few hundred people who came to Fort Meade's Red, White and Blue celebration on Wednesday at Fort Meade's Parade Field. The event was set to feature a parade of Budweiser Clydesdale horses, fireworks and a barbecue cook-off competition.
- Uncertainty over whether the Social Security Administration will pay stormwater fees for its Baltimore County headquarters reflects a broader murkiness as to whether federal agencies will or won't pay the new fees elsewhere in Maryland.
- If Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade had his way, the greatest clash of armies in American history would have taken place on Maryland soil — not in Gettysburg — 150 years ago this week.
- Dr. Stuart Walker, a 90-year-old retired pediatrician from Annapolis, will be inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame this fall, officials announced Tuesday.
- With the end of government's fiscal year on Sunday, four more people are leaving Anne Arundel County Executive Laura Neuman's administration.
- An Air Force member who was based at Fort Meade has been found dead, officials said Friday.
- Diane Croghan will be manager for Del. Steve Schuh's campaign to become the next county executive for Anne Arundel County.
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- Stan Ber's Bits & Pieces column for the week of June 27
- Cynthia C. "Cyndy" Scott, a senior vice president of marketing at Tower Federal Credit Union in Laurel, died June 13 of unknown causes at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She was 66.
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- Under growing pressure over recently disclosed surveillance programs, the head of the National Security Agency told lawmakers on Tuesday that gathering telephone data and monitoring Internet use has helped to disrupt more than 50 "potential terrorist events" since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
- Under pressure over the revelation of secret surveillance programs, the director of the National Security Agency is scheduled to appear before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.
