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Vernon J. Holloway, who spent nearly 47 years as an independent newspaper carrier coursing through the back roads of northern Baltimore County delivering The Baltimore Sun and the News American to readers, died June 12 from respiratory failure at York Hospital in York, Pa.

Assateague Island National Seashore was evacuated Tuesday morning while an Army bomb squad exploded World War II-era munitions that had washed up on the beach.

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.

Drone technology has been misused and abused by U.S.

Manuel M. Nicolaides, an attorney who sat for many years on the Baltimore County property tax appeals board, died of congestive heart failure Monday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Timonium resident was 92.

Seeking to emerge from the long shadow of Gov. Martin O'Malley, Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown will make official Friday what everyone in Maryland politics has known for a long time: He's running for governor.

Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin and its partners bring an F-35 "cockpit demonstrator" to the Baltimore area to show elected officials and the media what the fighter jet can do — a counter to years of stories and Congressional hearings about delays, technical problems and massive cost overruns.

Franklin W. Littleton Jr., a retired career Air Force officer and businessman who was a big band and Dixieland music aficionado, died April 20 from complications of dementia at Nichols Eldercare, an Edgewood assisted-living facility. He was 91.

The Obama administration is taking a measured approach to rising tensions on the peninsula, but the key to moving forward lies in enlisting China's support in ratcheting down tensions

Use of unmanned aircraft raises troubling questions about U.S. policy and the lack of transparency behind it

Sara Cullen, a captain in the U.S. Army, died along with four other Army members in southern Afghanistan in a helicopter crash on Monday

U.S. spending too much to defeat threats that no longer exist

Shaped like a teardrop and carved out of the eastern bank of the Bush River, the UNDEX Test Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground earned the nickname "Super Pond" for its unusual properties.

Midshipmen at the Naval Academy could spend less time training at sea. Some gates into Fort Meade could be shut down. And routine maintenance at military installations across the state could be delayed, under federal budget cuts set to begin Friday.

The sequester showdown has put the nation — and the Republican Party — on a self-destructive path that now seems unavoidable

William Charles Brubaker, a retired aeronautical engineer who was a founding trombone player in the Baltimore Colts Marching Band, died at Sinai Hospital Feb. 12 of complications of injuries he suffered near his Lutherville home. Family members said he had been struck by a vehicle while walking last year. He was 91.

Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about steep impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result.

Indiscriminate budget cuts are a threat to national security

President Obama's State of the Union address put the issue of nuclear arms control back on the nation's agenda

In the face of Pyongyang's provocations, we must clearly say what we will not tolerate and how we will respond

President Obama has demonstrated that he, not the military and not the State Department, decides when the U.S. becomes involved in armed conflicts abroad.

The Army is planning to move an over-the-horizon radar system, more than 100 soldiers and a pair of giant, blimp-like aerostats that fly as high as two miles up, to Aberdeen Proving Ground in the fall, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger said Thursday.

The specter of federal budget reductions has meant hundreds of jobs lost at Northrop Grumman Corp. in Maryland, but as the defense contractor vies to build a key U.S. Navy radar system, that same cost-cutting pressure could boost the importance of Northrop's Baltimore-area operations, company leaders said.

Where do our tax dollars go? Mostly to the military

In a season where tiny white lights, window wreaths, inflated Santas and lighted candy canes seem to take over the landscape in Laurel, the Laurel Civic Improvement Committee had a tough job: Narrow down the multitude of twinkling, blinking and even singing holiday displays to the top 10 winners of the city's annual Holiday Decorating Contest.

The military cuts in the fiscal cliff would encourage Iran to build the bomb.

Drone warfare by the U.S., not one general's infidelity, is the pressing issue of the day

A fawning media and Congress went to the general's head

Jonah Goldberg says the president's sneering attitude toward military needs is revealing

The man accused of plotting to attack the Federal Reserve in New York considered striking a lightly guarded military installation in Baltimore, according to authorities.

Billions wasted on unnecessary programs should be redirected toward pressing domestic needs