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- 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.
- Here's how officials are reacting to the shooting in Harford County.
- In the space of 24 hours, workplaces in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and now Harford County were the scenes of mass shootings.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Republican Party needs to acknowledge their dysfunction, they need to own it and fix it, says Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Alexandria shooting exposes the violent spirit infecting American politics
- Given Congress' refusal to act, the president is right to look for ways to strengthen the nation's gun laws through executive action
- Pitts: GOP candidates may not have caused the Planned Parenthood shooting, but they're not wholly innocent.
- Parents of slain journalist take up a sensible cause with strong public support — yet face a daunting challenge
- Conservatives should take the high road and liberals should join them, writes Jonah Goldberg.
- 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.
- 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.
- 10 putty like substances with wiring found on congressman's glass door early Wednesday
- 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.
- O'Malley gun bill will only make it more difficult for people to defend themselves from criminals
- Keswick Multi-Care centers is using music to help ease the symptoms patients with dementia and Alzheimer's face
- State of the Union plea for Congress to act on gun control strikes a chord with most Americans
- 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
- Frederick H. Bealefeld III reacts to the Newtown shooting and offers suggestions for curbing gun violence.
- 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.
- President Obama can no longer duck the issue of gun control and must confront the dangers posed by an over-armed society.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Former mayor Dixon used $4,500 in protection on Miami vacation in 2009
- If we make our definition of terrorism about the action not the ideology, then accused Colorado shooter James Holmes qualifies as a terrorist.
- Aurora shooting should raise serious questions about easy access to ammunition, high-capacity magazines and assault-style weapons but probably won't
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.