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Corporate criminal fraud. Tainted meat on the menu. Prying reporters pounding on the door. Meet Jonathan Bernstein, crisis tamer. - For three hours each work week, Bert Rice walk laps around Burba Lake at Fort Meade — part of a mission by the federal government to build a healthier workforce.
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- As Marylanders prepared for summer vacations, the National Park Service has announced that it no longer needs to furlough U.S. Park Police.
- WASHINGTON — Leaks about secret National Security Agency surveillance programs made by an intelligence contractor reopened a debate Monday over how much the government relies on companies for spy work and whether the firms must do more to vet employees and protect classified information.
- In its broad outlines, the case of Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old intelligence contractor who last week revealed the existence of two top secret National Security Agency eavesdropping programs, hews closely to the contours set by Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.
- The Guardian newspaper has identified a 29-year-old man who once lived in Maryland as the source of the top secret documents that revealed details of two National Security Agency surveillance programs that have revived debate of the agency's reach into the private lives of Americans.
- As you move through the ordinary activities of your everyday life, you're leaving an electronic trail rich in data about your whereabouts, your interests and your relationships. That's information of keen interest — and not only to marketers. As recent revelations about two National Security Agency surveillance programs show, at least some of those digital details are being collected and analyzed by the government.
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- Obama administration and a bipartisan group of lawmakers defended the program as both legal and necessary.
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- An Army prosecutor told a military judge that Pfc. Bradley Manning drew on his military training to harvest hundreds of thousands of classified documents from military computers and dump them on the Internet, where he knew their release would endanger fellow U.S. soldiers.
- Two homes in the Potomac Place neighborhood of Fort Meade were destroyed and two more damaged in a fire Sunday, base officials said.
- Good morning, Baltimore. There's a leaker in jail next door, Game of Thrones is a fantasy, and Turkey's flirting with anarchy. Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for June 3, 2013.
- Protesters at Fort Meade marched Saturday in support of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has acknowledged giving hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks and whose court-martial on other charges will begin this week.
- Fort Meade officials plan to close the main gate of the Army base in Anne Arundel County on Saturday, but police said they didn't not have plans to limit traffic on surrounding roads during a mass demonstration for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.
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- Three industry groups from Baltimore and Washington said Thursday that they've banded together to "solidify" the region as the top place for cyber-related business growth.
- Navy Cmdr. James King and Lt. Cmdr. Justin Van Hoose climbed into the cockpits of the squadron's last two EA-6B Prowlers for a final flight before the squadron moves this summer from Maryland to the West Coast.
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- New funding to expand service and capacity gets Baltimore area closer to the regional transit system in needs
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- Laurel Police report three robberies with firearm
- Maryland employers cut 6,200 jobs in April, cutting short a string of gains, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday.
- Jakob Henchell, a fourth-grader at Talbott Springs Elementary School in Columbia, has cerebral palsy and is mostly confined to a wheelchair. But with the help of some friends and a group called Ainsley's Angels, he's "running" a 5K at Ft. Meade May 18.
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- Police and firefighters cordoned off a section of Fort Meade on Wednesday morning after utility workers discovered a piece of unexploded ordnance from the World War II era, base officials said.
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- A new computing facility at the National Security Agency will help the country better defend against cyber attacks, agency officials and members of Congress said Monday.
- Legislation that would have shielded minor criminal records from scrutiny by potential employers gets watered down too much to be of significant benefit.
- Now that the General Assembly has approved a gas tax hike expected to generate $4.4 billion over the next six years, transportation officials see an opportunity to address some of the region's chronic trouble spots.
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