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• Sports

Ravens cornerback Will Davis took an uncommon path to the NFL

Will Davis is an aspiring photographer. As he traveled around Europe this offseason, collecting stamps on his passport, the

By Jeff Zrebiec

Sep 6, 2016

• Crime

Marylanders' data exposed in scores of hacks

It was a typical winter morning on the Twitter feed of Eastern Shore television station WBOC: a stream of messages about snowfall and a reminder to download the station's weather app for the latest updates.

By Ian Duncan

Jan 17, 2015

• Harford

Cruise missile-spotting balloon rises over Maryland

In the coming days a speck is expected to rise on the Baltimore skyline: It's a giant balloon that the Army will be floating high above Middle River to scan the skies for cruise missiles.

By Ian Duncan

Dec 26, 2014

• Opinion

The police are snooping

Police can track the location of suspects through cellphone data but the technology raises serious privacy issues

• Maryland

For spending, what's in your e-wallet?

• Opinion

Send a message to D.C. on Election Day

The Democrats have led the country astray; vote them out.

By Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.

Oct 26, 2014

• Opinion

Why not a fraud-free election?

Texas needs photo ID law so liberals won't truck in ineligible voters

• Opinion

Texas ID law is fair and necessary

Claim that Lone Star State's voter ID law is discriminatory and unconstitutional is a bunch of bull

• Opinion

Messing with voting rights in Texas

Supreme Court may have failed to stand up to racist voter ID law but powerful (and bipartisan) dissenting opinions will be heard

• Opinion

Middle class value claims are a 'joke' [Commentary]

Political ploys — including the prosecution of Tom Delay and claims that voter reforms discriminate — irk Maryland's former governor.

By Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.

Oct 18, 2014

• Baltimore City Paper

Wandering Eye: An update in a murder-for-hire case, carrying your Nobel Prize in the airport, and more

• Maryland

North Carolina woman brought to Maryland for alleged 2009 fraud

A woman is charged with identity fraud and related charges for allegedly using her landlord's information to open a cell phone account.

• Opinion

Double-voting not the only opportunity for fraud [Letter]

Double-voting is not the only problem facing Maryland and other states that don't have photo ID requirement

• Opinion

'Smart' guns are no safer than ordinary firearms [Letter]

'Smart' guns are no safer than ordinary firearms

• Politics

Officials in Md., Va. investigate report that 164 voted in both states

The State Board of Elections has alerted the Office of the State Prosecutor to a report that 164 people voted in both Maryland and Virginia in the November 2012 presidential election, in violation of the law.

• Baltimore City

Trial scheduled for former school board member charged with fraud

A former city school board member and city government worker who is accused of lying about his resume will be tried in court on fraud charges this fall.

• Howard County

Owner of Columbia spas indicted for running alleged prostitution ring

The owner of two Columbia spas has been indicted on human trafficking and prostitution charges in connection with an alleged prostitution ring he ran out of the businesses, according to Howard County police.

• Harford

Glen Burnie man with 38 convictions, 23 aliases, faces drug charges following Harford traffic stop

A Glen Burnie man charged with having drugs during an I-95 traffic stop near Aberdeen also has an extensive criminal record across multiple states, an assistant state's attorney said.

• Opinion

Cap and dividend [Editorial]

Maryland congressman's innovative plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but shield average Americans from higher energy prices deserves serious consideration

• Politics

Board OKs pact to protect UM security breach victims

The state Board of Public Works approved a contract worth an estimated $2.6 million Wednesday for a contractor to monitor the credit activity of an estimated 300,000 people whose personal information was exposed as a result of a computer security breach discovered at the University of Maryland early this year.

• Baltimore County

Atonement church lends help to refugee, prisoners [Loch Raven]

Congregants at Atonement Lutheran Church in Parkville has supported a woman and her children from Kenya and also handcraft greeting cards for prisoners.

• Opinion

My freedom march [Commentary]

This July 4th was my first as a U.S. citizen. It was a special treat glancing over at Vice President Joe Biden in the 2014 Philadelphia Independence Day Parade, while playing alongside my fellow Falun Gong practitioners in our waist drum troupe, despite the memories it stirred. If I had done anything like this in China, I would have been imprisoned – again -- and routinely tortured.

• Howard County

Fitchitt, Nicklas named to lead Downtown Columbia Partnership

Howard County Public Schools leads all state systems in percentage of high school graduates that go on to enroll in college, according to Maryland Department of Education data.

• Howard County

Howard Co., CA and Wegmans partner on program incentivizing trail use

Wegmans of Columbia has partnered with the Howard County Department of Recreation & Parks and the Columbia Association to deliver programming incentivizing the use of the county's trail system.

• Politics and Government

Social Security nominee will face questions from allies

President Obama's nominee to lead the Social Security Administration will face tough questioning from lawmakers at her confirmation hearing, experts predict — and many of the hardest queries could come from members of her own party.

• Maryland

Legal Matters: Courts expanding rules on identifying information in lawsuits

• Harford

Privacy advocates concerned about Aberdeen Proving Ground blimps

The Army is planning to launch a pair of blimps over Maryland this fall to watch the Eastern Seaboard for incoming cruise missiles. It's what else they might be able to see from up there that worries privacy advocates.

• Maryland

Letter: Voter fraud a serious concern

• Opinion

It's time for the House to take up immigration [Commentary]

Without visa backlog reform, millions of people's lives are in limbo as they wait for their chance to start a new life in the United States. As Justice Breyer put it during oral argument in the Mayorkas case, "They've all been waiting for years and years and years, and it becomes hard to choose among them."

• Baltimore City Paper

FBI probe of University of Maryland data breach targets Canton Group employee

• Baltimore City Paper

Hopkins Economist: Safety Net Works Just Fine

• Baltimore City Paper

We Feed Dead People

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore police officer charged in federal gun, drug, and identity-fraud case

• Baltimore City Paper

ACORN—Or Just Nuts?

• Baltimore City Paper

Woman Pleads Guilty to Stealing Hopkins Patient Identities

• Baltimore City Paper

Legislative Audit Finds State Tax Collector Still Lax on Bogus SS Numbers

• Baltimore City Paper

In This Week's City Paper

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore cop accused of protecting drug-dealer given pre-trial release

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore Register of Wills Audit Finds Convict

• Baltimore Hotels

Historic YMCA in Mount Vernon to become Hotel Indigo

A historic YMCA in Mount Vernon, once home to confessed Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers and a hotel run by the former Baltimore International Culinary college, is to become a 197-room Hotel Indigo, one of the new owners said.

• Maryland

Identity theft can take years to discover; police preach awareness of finances

• Opinion

Carey Business School commencement speaker should answer for his company's ties with the NRA [Letter]

Carey Business School's commencement speaker should answer for his company's ties with the NRA.

• Retirement Planning

Social Security to end decades-old letter service

• Laurel Leader

Bond Mill PTO continues school carnival tradition [West Laurel]

Bond Mill PTO Carnival is Saturday, May 17 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Prince George's County Department of Environmental Resources will no longer accept yard waste such as grass, leaves and sticks in plastic bags, must use paper bags or a reusable container. West Laurel Civic Association 2014 spring General Meeting will be held on Thursday, May 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the West Laurel Community Building. West Laurel mourns the loss of Chuck Lavin who passed away in April after a long illness.

• Baltimore City

Burglar breaks into Northern District police station; caught wearing police jacket [Crime Log]

Crime reports from the north Baltimore City neighborhoods

• Baltimore County

Summer Shack snoballs a hit on 80-degree April day [Lutherville-Timonium]

A warm spring April day and a line formed at Summer Shack Snoball Stand on West Joppa Road; newly renovated meat counter at Graul's in Mays Chapel and local accounting firm KatzAbosch appears on MPT.

• Colleges and Universities

Former Hopkins grad students' personal data exposed online

More than 2,000 Social Security numbers of former Johns Hopkins University graduate students were exposed to potential hackers, the university confirmed Saturday.

• Maryland

Woman charged with identity theft

• Crime

Reports raise concerns over security at federal field offices

A series of recent federal reports have raised concerns with safety in small field offices scattered across the country, where federal employees at the IRS, Social Security Administration and other agencies are more likely to interact with the public.

• Colleges and Universities

Former contract worker at UM says he accessed data to reveal problems

The FBI is investigating a former University of Maryland contract worker who said he took College Park administrators' personal information from the campus network and posted online about the stunt to draw attention to major security flaws.