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- A gunman believed responsible for a string of recent shootings in public areas — including one at the National Security Agency in Fort Meade — will be charged with attempted first-degree murder and other offenses, police said Wednesday.
- Police are investigating reports of gunfire near the National Security Agency's headquarters and one of the agency's buildings has been damaged, according to the National Parks Police.
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- Onstage at a major computer security summit at Stanford University, President Barack Obama signed an executive order Friday to make it easier for private companies to dip into the government's deep reservoirs of data on cyberattacks.
- Robert C. Klein, a retired insurance executive and World War II veteran who had participated in the liberation of the Landsberg concentration camp, died.
- Two people were injured Sunday in a small plane crashed near the Tipton Airport in Fort Meade.
- In the early 1950s, Harry Boswell had a vision for his property "Meade City," a 5,000-home, self-sustaining community serving the growing population of the Laurel/Fort Meade area.
- The 115th Army-Navy football game will be played just 25 miles from the United States Naval Academy on Saturday, so it's probably natural to view the game at M&T Bank Stadium as a home date for the Midshipmen, even though the Army has a very significant presence in and around the Baltimore area.
- For more than a century, Laurel has been prominently featured in newspapers as a "boomtown." The city itself has helped with this image with effective marketing, especially beginning in the 1950s. But while there's no denying Laurel experienced a boom in the second half of the last century, it never lived up to the population predictions.
- Laurel police report robbery with firearm and strong-arm robbery
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- Anne Arundel County police are searching for a 17-year-old boy who they said walked into Fort Meade Senior High School on Friday with a gun, then carjacked another teenager at gunpoint and forced him to drive two miles.
- Anne Arundel County firefighters pulled an elderly woman from a Hanover home that caught fire Saturday afternoon.
- Joseph E. Howell, one of Baltimore's first World War II draftees who later became a vice president and general partner at Legg Mason, died Monday at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson of heart disease. He was 95.
- Can Baltimore continue to do what it takes to become a thriving metropolis like Boston and San Francisco, or are we destined to be stuck in the Detroit-Cleveland post industrial doldrums?
- Catonsville High students learn about the growing field of cyber security
- The Republican candidate for Anne Arundel executive is a sharp, clear-eyed conservative with a vision for the county¿s future.
- Democrat Ken Ulman's tenure as Howard County executive has been marked by a hands-on approach. Now he's hoping to become Maryland's lieutenant governor on Anthony Brown's ticket — a position that for the first time would put the ambitious Ulman in the No. 2 position.
- Brock Bridge Elementary School is sponsoring a book fair and fall dance Oct. 24. Brock Bridge Elementary School recognizes Polly Barnes for her years of exceptional work with its students. Barnes received the Anne Arundel County Public School Volunteer of the Month award. Monarch Global Academy is holding a food drive for the hungry of Maryland. The application process to attend grades K-6 at Monarch during the 2015-2016 school year is open until Dec. 24. Maryland City Volunteer Fire Department
- Alberico F. Lamasa, who participated in the D-Day landing in France on June 6, 1944, and later owned several Baltimore bars, died Thursday at Manor Care Towson of complications from pneumonia. He was 93.
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- Maryland's prison officials are looking for a few good men, and women, to serve as corrections officers in the state's detention centers.
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- Edgar Nash III, a retired real estate broker who had been associated with the old Morgan Millwork Co,. died of heart disease Sept. 2 at the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center in Easton. The St. Michaels resident was 86.
- Severna Park High School alum earns positive reviews from GQ, WWD
- Democratic County Executive candidate Courtney Watson has released an economic platform that focuses on expanding the county¿s investment in cyber security training and business development.
- Hiring by Maryland's largest employer — the federal government — has fallen by more than 40 percent nationally over four years, and the state's jobs market is feeling the pain.
- The Maryland Department of Transportation has been awarded $10 million in federal funding to widen Route 175 in Anne Arundel County, reducing congestion around an expanding Fort Meade.
- All lanes are open on Interstate 83 in Parkton with the clearing of a two-vehicle collision at the MD 137 (Mount Carmel Road) exit on Tuesday morning, according to the state Department of Transportation
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- Officials with the Maryland Jockey Club said they are working on new plans for the future of their three Maryland horse racing facilities: Laurel Park, Pimlico Race Course and a training center in Bowie.
- Baltimore County Police reported on Friday morning all but one lane on Belair Road is shut down in both directions between Wholesale Club Drive and Dunfield Road due to a 24-inch water main break.
- A church that grew up with Maryland City will celebrate its golden anniversary in a big way on Sept. 20. Parishioners and clergy at Resurrection of Our Lord Roman Catholic Church have planned an afternoon Mass followed by a semi-formal gala at Laurel Park that evening.
- Last year, Bachman said, the Knitting for Soldiers Charity Drive collected more than 100 knitted wool hats for soldiers stationed overseas.
- Howard County Executive Ken Ulman will be honored for his administration's efforts to improve water quality in the county, officials announced last week.
- With the tremendous explosion of information technology, the intelligence community lost control of its data, to the detriment of everyone.
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