prisoners and detainees

The U.S. got a good deal on Sgt. Bergdahl's return

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.

Bring Bergdahl back for court martial

Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski called on the Obama administration Thursday to turn its attention to two Marylanders who are being detained overseas and argued that the recent release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl raised significant questions for U.S. efforts to bring those men home.

Seventy years after D-Day, some Americans judge harshly, and unfairly, their countrymen who have been damaged by war

Richard A. Hartman, former president and CEO of the Automobile Club of Maryland who fought at the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, died Feb. 28 of complications from cancer and renal failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 91.

More than 60 people, including a number of veterans attended a flag raising ceremony outside the Carroll County Government offices to commemerate national POW/MIA recognition day.

In the Laurel Leader's monthly History Matters column, a day in 1962 is remembered when the city welcomed home resident Lawrence R. Bailey, an Army major serving as the assistant Army attache in Vientiane who was shot down and held prisoner in Laos for 17 months.

Ralph K. "Ken" Barnes, a retired Koppers Co. manager who was a German POW during the twilight of World War II, died Saturday from complications of a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 89.

Jana Kopelentova Rehak of Loyola looks at a generation of Czech dissidents passed over by history

The government bars me from arguing on behalf of my client, a Pakistani boy seized when he was 14

Repaving main street next step for Arbutus businesses

Honor missing American heroes

The combination of our heritage of German settlers — mostly in the northern part of the county — as well as the large number of canning factories that use to dominate our agri-business foundation, made Carroll perfect as a place for German POWs to work.

, Leading researcher, author, and clinician in the field of electroencephalography and its use in epilepsy and other brain research died Thursday of colon cancer

Iowa group wants to roll back law that counts inmates in their hometowns, not their prisons

Gilbert Sandler describes how, after Pearl Harbor, Baltimoreans worked and played, worried and sacrificed under the shadow of war

Dan Rodricks is wrong to call a convicted murderer a political prisoner just because he's been denied parole.

Pardons: Former Gov. Ehrlich says President Obama has neglected this important responsibility

Because of changes in treatment, some mentally ill don't end up in care until after they commit a crime

The trial of a prisoner charged with killing a state correctional officer will stay a death-penalty case, an Anne Arundel County judge ruled this afternoon after hearing that the victim's DNA was found on the prisoner's clothing.

Television with a clear case are a specialty industry of direct mail catalogs that sell items deemed safe for prisoners in Maryland and other states, making prisons safer.

Monday marks the five-year anniversary of the slaying of David McGuinn, a correctional officer and father of three. Many of those familiar with the case have been frustrated by the delays in prosecuting his accused killers, and former colleagues wonder why no one has yet been held accountable.

The case of alleged Al Qaeda operative Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame will test whether U.S. civilian courts are up to the task of dealing with terrorist suspects captured abroad. Defending the rule of law

We'll never find out if torturing suspects helped us find Osama bin Laden, but it's a moot point because those methods are no longer in use

The successful hunt for Osama bin Laden is no vindication of torture in the pursuit of terrorists

First-of-its-kind Md. law could add as many as 12,000 to Baltimore's population