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New regulations let Owings Mills couple program unmanned aerial vehicle to shoot photos

A Navy SEAL from Maryland who was killed when a U.S. military helicopter crashed during a firefight with insurgents in southern Afghanistan will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Military spending could be put to better use

Congress must not allow devastating cuts in defense spending

Rear Adm. Robert Waring McNitt, a naval officer whose career spanned two wars and after retiring from the Navy was dean of admissions at the Naval Academy for more than a decade, died Sunday of heart failure at the Ginger Cove retirement community in Annapolis.

Manufacturers such as AAI and Lockheed Martin, research at Johns Hopkins, the University of Maryland and other institutions, and testing and development at Aberdeen Proving Ground and Patuxent River have combined to make Maryland a center of the burgeoning drone industry.

Mitt Romney traveled overseas in an attempt to look presidential, but he's managed to look foolish instead.

The hulking old tanks, left to rust when the Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, still packed a threat when Albert Whittington arrived. Whittington, an explosives expert with the Baltimore District of the Army Corps of Engineers, has spent the past year working to make Afghanistan safer from old ammunition and other materials still capable of maiming or killing.

For sale: painstakingly restored Vietnam War-era Marine helicopter. Records missing, but mounts, gun replicas and rocket pods included. Blades will spin, but the 1965 UH-1E Huey gunship is not flyable.

A State Fire Marshal bomb squad and an Army team from Fort Belvoir, Va., disposed of several pieces of military ordnance — including a live 75mm armor piercing shell — that were found in a home in Westminster on July 19.

Expanding use of drones threatens a slide into a state of perpetual warfare.

Several organizations at Aberdeen Proving Ground are focused on stopping the signature weapon of the enemy in Afghanistan and Iraq: the Improvised Explosive Device, responsible for more than half the U.S. deaths in those two countries over the past decade.

Some of the most poignant moments during the May 28th commemoration came in a presentation called "The Loved and Lost" — saluting the seven Marylanders who died in Afghanistan or elsewhere overseas between April 2011 and February of this year.

BWI Airport becomes art gallery to celebrate human rights

President Obama should heed calls for deeper cuts to the U.S. nuclear arsenal

Robert M. Stock, a retired electrical engineer and FBI fingerprint pioneer which led to the establishment of the Automated Fingerprint Identification System, died Wednesday from complications of a stroke at his Severna Park home. He was 83.

Engineer-turned-muralist Pat O'Brien calculates creativity by the brush stroke.

Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal lavishes spending on the military while starving investments in domestic priorities.

Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain, renounced terrorism repeatedly Friday, in a lengthy speech made shortly before a federal judge sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

Bruce R. Kane, a retired mechanical engineer whose career in the HVAC industry spanned more than six decades, died March 15 from complications of melanoma at his daughter's Brandywine home. He was 88.

The Democratic congressional candidates in Maryland's 6th District largely agree on major issues facing the country: They all favor immigration reform, more infrastructure spending to help boost the economy and a woman's right to have an abortion.

President Barack Obama and Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin surprised lunchtime diners at a Prince George's County barbecue restraurant today.

Forty-nine governors, including Martin O¿Malley, are ¿strongly¿ opposing ¿disproportionate¿ cuts to the Air National Guard in the Air Force¿s 2013 budget request.

Maryland National Guard Maj. Robert Marchanti was one of two U.S. military officers shot to death inside a secure Afghan ministry building on Saturday, officials said Monday.

Columbia resident Robert Gaspar Leginus Sr., WWII glider pilot, dies at 98.

The cancellation of the C27J Spartan aircraft would leave the state guard without airlift capability for overseas deployments or state emergencies — and the 250 pilots, loadmasters, maintenance and other personnel of the 135th Airlift Group without an assignment.

Military bomb disposal teams have detonated the vintage munitions. The Army Corps of Engineers is combing land records and military archives to determine how they got here. The Maryland Park Service has closed Newtowne Neck until further notice.

Mourners of Airman 1st Class Matthew Ryan Seidler said the Westminster man had followed his dream of serving his country, found a band of brothers in the Air Force and died protecting his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan.

Underwater surveys of the shoreline along a state park in Southern Maryland turned up eight more World War II era military explosives, according to fire officials.

Ten more World War II era Naval artillery rounds have been found in a state park in Southern Maryland, the Office of the State Fire Marshal announced Saturday.

Did Saddam have weapons of mass destruction before the U.S. invasion in 2003?

Alvin Ralph Eaton, a pioneer in modern guided missile systems and the longest-serving employee at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, died of cancer Oct. 20.

Departing defense secretary's status quo stance on foreign adventures, military spending will complicate his successor's job

Former Defense Department official says Congress will never cut unneeded arms programs on its own, so an independent commission is required