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• News

Police: Temporary employee shoots 7, kills 4, including self, at Maryland Rite Aid warehouse

The suspect, Snochia Moseley, 26, who lived in White Marsh, died at a hospital where she had been taken after the shooting. She was a temporary employee at the distribution center, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said.

• News

What they're saying about the mass shooting at Maryland workplace

Here's how officials are reacting to the shooting in Harford County.

By Catherine Rentz

Sep 20, 2018

• News

Maryland Rite Aid shooting is third workplace shooting in 24 hours

In the space of 24 hours, workplaces in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and now Harford County were the scenes of mass shootings.

By Jean Marbella

Sep 20, 2018

• Opinion

Goldberg: Partisans on both sides are hell-bent on total victory

Partisan identity is now stronger and more meaningful for many Americans than race, ethnicity or religious denomination — and is viewed as a more legitimate justification for discrimination, says Jonah Goldberg.

• Opinion

Terror and heartbreak in the Annapolis Capital newsroom

The horror of mass shootings hit home for the media today with the shooting at the Annapolis Capital-Gazette newsroom. But it is sadly familiar.

• Opinion

Pitts: Jeff Flake's 'Conservative Conscience'

The Republican Party needs to acknowledge their dysfunction, they need to own it and fix it, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

• Opinion

Alexandria shooting exposes the violent spirit infecting American politics

Alexandria shooting exposes the violent spirit infecting American politics

• Maryland

Letter: GOP should put safety ahead of NRA

• Opinion

Obama and guns

Given Congress' refusal to act, the president is right to look for ways to strengthen the nation's gun laws through executive action

• Opinion

Republicans dance close to line in regards to Planned Parenthood

Pitts: GOP candidates may not have caused the Planned Parenthood shooting, but they're not wholly innocent.

• Opinion

The Parkers' 'sound cause'

Parents of slain journalist take up a sensible cause with strong public support — yet face a daunting challenge

• Opinion

Cop killer blame game shows a double standard

Conservatives should take the high road and liberals should join them, writes Jonah Goldberg.

• Baltimore City Paper

U2 Claws Its Way to the Top at M&T Bank Stadium

• Opinion

No, it's not time yet to move on from Columbia mall coverage

By the middle of last week, just four days after the shooting at The Mall in Columbia that left three people dead, some in TV news wanted to move on.

• Opinion

Congress capitulates to the NRA [Commentary]

If this country were experiencing a cholera or typhus epidemic, various communities would band together immediately to staunch the havoc it was wreaking. In comparison, the epidemic of gun deaths has been met with a lot of hand-wringing and public condemnation by political leaders but not much else. That's not leadership, that's capitulation.

• Opinion

In a word: spree

• Opinion

In a word: spree

• News

FBI investigating apparent bomb threat left at Rep. Elijah Cummings' office

10 putty like substances with wiring found on congressman's glass door early Wednesday

• News

FBI investigating apparent bomb threat left at Rep. Elijah Cummings' office

• Opinion

In Senate gun control vote, tyranny of the minority

The failure of a bill to expand federal background checks has nothing to do with the right to bear arms and everything to do with the NRA's need to perpetuate its existence.

• Opinion

In Senate gun control vote, tyranny of the minority

• Politics and Government

Don't be fooled by gun control lies

O'Malley gun bill will only make it more difficult for people to defend themselves from criminals

• Opinion

Don't be fooled by gun control lies

• Health

Keswick using music to treat dementia, Alzheimer's

Keswick Multi-Care centers is using music to help ease the symptoms patients with dementia and Alzheimer's face

• Sandy Hook Elementary School

Remembering Sandy Hook on the way to Congress

• Opinion

We deserve a vote

State of the Union plea for Congress to act on gun control strikes a chord with most Americans

• Barack Obama

We deserve a vote

• Opinion

A voice of reason on guns

Congress should heed Baltimore County Police Chief Jim Johnson's plea for universal background checks and a federal ban on assault-style weapons with large-capacity magazines

• Opinion

A voice of reason on guns

• Maryland

Letter: More gun laws aren't needed

• Opinion

Bealefeld: What we must do about gun violence

Frederick H. Bealefeld III reacts to the Newtown shooting and offers suggestions for curbing gun violence.

• Opinion

Bealefeld: What we must do about gun violence

• Family

Havre de Grace council members urge action, dialogue after Newtown shooting

Havre de Grace city council members sent their sympathies to the people of Newtown, Conn., during Monday's meeting, and several said they wanted to see mental health and gun safety better addressed as a result of the shooting that killed 20 children and six adults Friday.

• Opinion

What does the NRA say now?

President Obama can no longer duck the issue of gun control and must confront the dangers posed by an over-armed society.

• Opinion

What does the NRA say now?

• Gabrielle Giffords

Astronaut Capt. Mark Kelly speaks at SCALE fundraiser

Capt. Mark Kelly, astronaut and husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, speaks at SCALE, the aphasia center near Belvedere Square, Monday, Dec. 10. Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman, has aphasia since being shot in the head nearly two years ago.

• Maryland

Westminster couple attends fifth Democratic National Convention

• Latest

Md. man accused in cannibal case deemed incompetent to stand trial

Alexander Kinyua, the college student accused of killing a family friend and ingesting his heart and brain, has been declared incompetent to stand trial, according to court records.

• Opinion

The false politicization of the Family Research Council shooting

The alleged perpetrator of the shooting of a security guard at the Family Research Council is not representative of the gay rights movement, but advocates for equality face a risk in getting sucked into a debate over whether the organization should be labeled a hate group.

• Opinion

The false politicization of the Family Research Council shooting

• Sun Investigates

$2,000 sought for police security for mayor while on family vacation in San Diego

Former mayor Dixon used $4,500 in protection on Miami vacation in 2009

• Sun Investigates

$2,000 sought for police security for mayor while on family vacation in San Diego

• Opinion

Call the Colorado shootings what they were: terrorism

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

• Opinion

Call the Colorado shootings what they were: terrorism

• Opinion

If Colorado shooting can't prompt a conversation about gun control, what will?

Aurora shooting should raise serious questions about easy access to ammunition, high-capacity magazines and assault-style weapons but probably won't

• Opinion

ABC's Brian Ross and a press that disregards reputations of those it covers

Journalistic mistakes are easy to make in the immediate wake of events like the horrific shootings last week in a movie theater in Colorado. Still, that¿s still no excuse for what happened with ABC News veteran Brian Ross Friday morning on ¿Good Morning America.¿ There¿s a journalistic lesson to be learned ¿ and it¿s not as simple as all of us in the media are too obsessed with trying to be first.

• Politics and Government

Ruppersberger steps down from military committee

WASHINGTON — Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, the Baltimore County Democrat who represents two of Maryland's largest military installations, is stepping down from the House Armed Services Committee effective immediately, his office confirmed Tuesday.

• Unrest

On Flag Day, inspiration abounds

Several hundred who marked Flag Day in Baltimore by gathering to marry a piece of the banner Pickersgill was commissioned to make by the U.S. Army for the War of 1812 with the National 9/11 Flag.

• Book

Books for the under-15 set: Justin Bieber, Stephen Colbert and Mark Kelly

• Newspaper and Magazine

Jeffrey Zaslow, co-author of The Last Lecture and Girls from Ames, dies