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The department of defense has ordered the stoppage of all service academy intercollegiate athletics as a result of the government shutdown, putting Saturday's Navy-Air Force football game in question.

The shutdown of the federal government means that our national parks -- including Yosemite -- are being closed today. Ironically, the closing of the awe-inspiring California park comes as it celebrates its 123rd anniversary, which is noted in today's Google Doodle.

Government employees and local businesses won't be the only ones affected by the looming federal government shutdown. Students at Harford County Schools may lose the most fun part of their educational enrichment — field trips to Washington, D.C., landmarks and other places owned by the federal government.

Federal government shutdown closes Catoctin Park

Shuttering the federal government is a costly, empty gesture aimed at Obamacare for which House Republicans should be ashamed

A possible government shutdown starting Tuesday would cause federal agencies in Maryland to close or seriously cut back operations, resulting in significant hardship for federal workers, as well as declining economic output and lower tax revenue for the state.

Republicans in the House of Representatives were set to approve a government funding bill Saturday that would delay the nation's health care law for one year — inching federal agencies closer to a shutdown analysts predict would have a significant economic impact in Maryland.

As the Oct. 11 release date of the new movie "Captain Phillips" approaches, Baltimore-based officials with the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots hope to capitalize on the publicity to highlight the importance of the merchant marine — and full funding of their mission.

WASHINGTON — Thousands of workers at federal agencies based in Maryland would be furloughed and their work put on hold if Congress fails to reach an agreement in coming days to fund the government, a series of agency reports released by the Obama administration Friday show.

Maryland lost about 21,000 jobs as a result of the automatic federal spending cuts known as the sequester, state officials say, and they expect another 4,000 federal positions will evaporate over the next two years.

Ulman, Howard County Council honor National POW/MIA recognition day

Matthew Green, the Johns Hopkins cryptography professor who was ordered to remove from university servers a blog post about the National Security Agency's covert surveillance efforts, has concluded that it was all a "big misunderstanding."

At the corner of Columbia's Little Patuxent Parkway and Brooken Land Parkway, there gathers a group of more than 50 people, carrying signs protesting the Obama administration's threat to bomb Syria with missiles in retaliation for its government's alleged gassing of its own people, killing more than 1,400 of them. Drivers of cars, trucks and buses honked their horns in support of the demonstration.

Vladimir Putin's New York Times op-ed wrankles, but it beats outright hostilities.

When an interim engineering dean at the Johns Hopkins University asked a well-known cryptography professor to remove a blog post about the National Security Agency from university servers, he said he did so because he feared ¿legal consequences.¿

Despite concerns about privacy and public safety, Maryland is seeking to open its skies to commercial drones under a federal program that could make the state a powerhouse in the burgeoning unmanned aircraft industry.

Universities across the country perform classified work for the federal government, balancing secrecy with academic freedom

Public-private partnerships are necessary to train workers for today's jobs, Penny Pritzker and Tom Perez write.

Critics are shooting blanks with charges that Maryland State Police are not properly protecting personal data from gun purchase background checks

First Putin denies Syria's chemical use, now he wants us to trust him on a diplomatic solution?

Johns Hopkins University ordered a professor and cryptographer Monday to remove from its servers a blog critical of the NSA for circumventing the encryption that protects sensitive material on the Web — only to reverse course after a review.

Congress must stand behind the president's resolve not to allow Syria's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians to go unpunished

American debate over intervention in Syria is curiously divorced from the desires of the people we're trying to help.

We are Veterans of the Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950 as a police action and ended with an armistice signed on July 27, 1953.

With the induction of the inaugural class of the FEMA Corps, AmeriCorps is expanding its work beyond urban education and environmental cleanup.

Hudson's Corner

Republicans have nothing to gain and Americans much to lose if the federal government is shut down by another fight over health care reform

The Howard County Public School System received a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada.

Bob Thomas, director of public information and community outreach for the Harford County Department of Emergency Services, is attending the annual training conference of the National Information Officers Association in Clearwater, Fla., this week.

The U.S. has little choice but to respond forcefully to Syria's most recent use of chemical weapons against its citizens

Bradley Manning, the junior Army analyst convicted of espionage for leaking thousands of classified documents, was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday, reigniting a debate over how far the government should go to punish those who publicize secret information.

The real out-of-control federal spending is on corporate handouts

Dan and Louise Runion of Clarksville may be humble antique and art dealers working out of a bedroom-sized cubicle in Frederick, but they're big in Poland.

Local governments keep building expensive networks that fail to attract customers.

Where was the government's outrage when Southwest and AirTran merged two years ago?

A County Council resolution under consideration would have the county's planning board review whether to ease county regulations that restrict many residents from keeping chickens in their yards. Council members say they have gotten many requests to examine the issue.

Pfc. Bradley E. Manning's attorney focused on the former Army analyst's mental health and whether his superiors adequately probed his fitness to serve as the defense opened its case in the sentencing portion of his trial Monday.

Neglect of Middle East's other conflicts could greatly damage U.S. interests even if a peace deal is achieved

For the past year, the Office of Personnel Management has been working on regulations that will allow older federal workers to phase into retirement. Many are eagerly awaiting the program's launch.

Even as immigrant advocates applauded a federal court ruling that limits local efforts to target people in the country illegally, some Frederick County officials insisted that they should continue to play a role in deporting them.

Col. Brian P. Foley assumed command of Fort Meade during a ceremony Thursday morning.

For market forces to work in favor of the buyers, a standard would need to be set, then all the products that do the same thing would be judged on price and quality, not whether they fit a particular device.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden's flight to Russia belies the government's bland assurances that the agency knows everything its employees are doing

The general who led the Pentagon's review of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history told a military judge on Wednesday that their publication revealed tactics, strained relations with some allies and caused some Afghans to stop cooperating with Americans.

A military judge ruled Tuesday that Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning violated the Espionage Act when he gave a trove of classified material to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks to publish online. But Col. Denise Lind found the onetime Marylander not guilty of aiding the enemy.

Pfc. Bradley Manning's leak of a massive trove of classified information was against the law, no matter his motivations, but it did not amount to aiding the enemy.

It's not sequestration but Maryland's failed leadership that really hurts

You have to admire the financial muscle if nothing else of Baltimore's Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Congress should make nutrition and health a priority over farming conglomerates

Susa Kessler, a retired World Bank analyst who had fled Nazi Germany as a child, died of breast cancer complications Tuesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Canton resident was 88.