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Robert R. "Bob" Timberg, a former Evening Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter and Marine Corps veteran whose 1995 book "The Nightingale's Song" about five Naval Academy graduates who served in the Vietnam War earned him wide acclaim, died Tuesday from respiratory failure at Anne Arundel Medical Center. He was 76.

With Chuck Hagels departure, Mr. Obama almost finds himself back at square one in his own war against war.

President is obligated to attack Islamic State to defense U.S. interests here and abroad

The best hope is that the newly empowered Republicans, hoping to counter the brand of negativism that haunted them throughout the Obama administration will swiftly put forward their own legislative agenda and bring much of it up for a vote in both houses.

United States helped supply chemical weapons to Iraq's Saddam Hussein

In August 1990, a few hundred Marines helicoptered into Liberia and evacuated U.S. citizens. To Liberians, it was as if the cavalry in a Western movie had showed up in the nick of time, but stopped and galloped off before saving the day. I thought of this image when U.S. troops started landing in large numbers in Liberia, this time to help stem the epidemic of Ebola.

This week 45 years ago, the New York Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles to take the World Series, thousands across the country took part in mass organized anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was born and the following songs were the most popular in the United States, via Billboard's Hot 100 chart archive.

The U.S. agreement to stay in the country beyond 2014 isn't a blank check for an indefinite U.S. troop presence there

Joseph F. Nawrozki III, a retired Baltimore Sun reporter who earlier had been on the staff of the old News American, died Saturday at his Bel Air home of leukemia. He was 70.

President must understand that violence only leads to more violence whether in Syria, Iraq or anywhere else

If we had not gone to war in Iraq in the first place, would we now be obliged to fight ISIS?

"Blue-Eyed Boy" recounts how Timberg rebuilt his life after being severely injured in a land mine explosion in Vietnam

In Mr. Obama's own continuing anguish — the consequence of his predecessor's rush to an unnecessary war in Iraq waged on false intelligence and premises — he cannot let his hands be tied in responding with all military force required to eradicate potential threats.

The new superintendent of the Naval Academy said Thursday that the institution is a national leader in confronting sexual assault and sexual harassment among students, and should be helping other schools tackle what he described as a widespread problem.

Nurses take risks in combating the Ebola epidemic, just as they always have.

The U.S. can't stand by as ISIS militants overrun Iraq and slaughter thousands of innocent civilians in its drive to impose an extreme form of Islamic law

The prospect of Harford County's economy losing in excess of 4,000 military and defense contracting jobs associated with various activities at Aberdeen Proving Ground is as unsavory a scenario that could be visited on the local economy.

Highland resident Vic McCrary, vice president for research and economic development, Morgan State University, was selected to the 2014 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to serve three years in the Carroll County Detention Center for a series of robberies, some armed, he committed in Westminster.

War is still not over for some families whose loved ones were classified as missing in action or as prisoners of war who never returned home. In the Korean War, which ended 61 years ago this week, 8,000 service members were classified as POW/MIA, and the recovery of their remains has been stalled.

Mugging for cameras in inappropriate places suggests a cluelessness and shallowness that have come to feel like the signature of these times.

A prediction: Hillary Clinton may be running against Rand Paul come 2016

The organizers of Friday's Independence Day parade in Kingsville were watching the weather closely during the hours leading up to the parade start time, hoping storms driven by Hurricane Arthur would not force them to cancel.

Aberdeen city leaders, joined by first responders from the city and Harford County emergency officials, as well as Aberdeen Proving Ground military leaders, unveiled Saturday a memorial to those who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks.

How far can President Obama involve the U.S. in Iraq without taking ownership of a war he opposed and supposedly ended?

The press has its faults, but saying it shills for politicians to gain cover for its own is quite a stretch.

Looking out toward the shore of Bush River while traveling on Route 40, just south of Aberdeen, is a community that made history 75 years ago. We used to call it Belcamp; now it is called Riverside.

Obama administration's choice to engage, not escalate, in Syria and Iraq is the only viable response to complex problem

Hours after winning their parties' nominations for governor, Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown and businessman Larry Hogan exchanged the first salvos in November's race for governor.

¿Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.¿

The United States Constitution prohibits the president from re-engaging the United States military in Iraq to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) without new congressional authorization. Further, the struggle for sectarian power there is irrelevant to our national security. Without the justification of self-defense, United States intervention would additionally create a precedent that would invite intervention by Russia or China in their neighboring countries.

U.S. should not spend more on bombs for Iraq when local health centers are closing

Implosion of Iraq latest demonstration that America does a poor job dealing with the rest of the world

Only history will be able to judge whose foreign policy was worse, the reckless Bush or the feckless Obama.

I am not looking to make a big deal out of this, but I thought at least one mainstream media critic ought to point out that CNN plans to air what it's calling a "documentary" about George H.W. Bush Sunday night in two hours of prime time, starting at 9.

This president, who's spent much of his time pivoting away from former President George W. Bush's wars, now risks accusations of emulating the earlier efforts of Mr. Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, to expand presidential powers in wartime. Mr. Cheney expounded the theory of "unitary power," which holds that the Constitution gives the president as commander in chief unlimited authority to protect the nation as he sees necessary.

Snowden didn't call himself a hero but he's acted like one

Obama puts U.S. security at risk by not committing military forces to Afghanistan after 2016