sandy hook elementary school shooting

A movement that began after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has gained steam and aims to teach the public how to stop the bleeding from accident and injury wounds until help arrives.

By Meredith Cohn

Apr 21, 2018

For the first time, the three leading Democrats running for Baltimore County executive shared a stage Wednesday night, and it did not take long for sharp exchanges between them.

By Pamela Wood

Apr 11, 2018

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced plans Thursday to spend $8 million on hiring more police officers, social workers and counselors in an effort to make public schools safer.

By Pamela Wood

Apr 5, 2018

In this year’s elections across the nation, voters have the opportunity to set things straight by electing lawmakers who will stand up to the NRA and enact sensible gun laws. In Baltimore County voters, the choice is between Jim Brochin and Johnny Olszewski Jr. in the county executive race.

Students from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute led a large crowd that stretched through blocks of downtown, through the Inner Harbor, for a local version of the national March For Our Lives protest Saturday.

By Jessica Anderson

Mar 24, 2018

After 26 people were gunned down in late 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the Havre de Grace City Council took quick action and allocated money to provide two additional SROs so there would be one at each school in city limits.

By Erika Butler

Mar 21, 2018

Law enforcement officials said the 17-year-old shooter at a St. Mary's high school used a 9mm Glock handgun. That firearm requires training, fingerprinting and license to purchase, and can only be bought by people over 21 years old.

By Erin Cox

Mar 20, 2018

Opinion editors don't have to give fake news and "crazy" a voice in the public square, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

Parents urge SROs in every school - gahler, glassman warn they're looking at adding more, but it's expensive and takes time.

By Erika Butler

Mar 2, 2018

President Donald Trump says we must do something after the Broward high school shooting. But he won't even mention the obvious: Restricting access to the guns that made this and so many other tragedies possible.

What needs to be done is to take measures which could help to prevent or at least lessen the pain resulting from these disasters.

On the eve of the launch of her new NBC show, Megyn Kelly, who spent much of the last two years near Ground Zero of America's political and culture wars, says she's through with politics.

By David Zurawik

Sep 22, 2017

Carroll County Public School nurses received training on how to stop massive bleeding.

Carter: Parent fears of school shootings are high

The campaign aims to teach individuals how to use critical care skills to stop life-threatening bleeding

We now live in the United States of Confusion, a nation of alternative realities and alternative facts, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

A federal appeals court as upheld the assault rifle ban Maryland lawmakers passed in 2013, concluding that the powerful military-style guns outlawed by the measure are not entitled to protection under the Second Amendment.

By Ian Duncan

Feb 21, 2017

Congress is poised to roll back a measure on Friday long championed by Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin that requires oil and gas companies to disclose how much they

By John Fritze

Feb 2, 2017

A state senator from Frederick County says his re-election campaign is raffling off an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.

Republican Michael Hough (HUFF) anno

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

In today's crazy political world, Ma

Study reveals widening gun ownership disparity and begs a question: Why can't gun owners be held accountable?

Teaching students to 'say something' when problems arise can reduce threat of gun violence in schools

Grant will help secure more mentors, services at school

RICHMOND, Va. -- A federal appeals court spent more than an hour Wednesday vigorously questioning lawyers about the constitutionality of Maryland's assault

Bernie Sanders is not the candidate to promote reasonable gun laws

The former head of a therapy-pet organization and her husband are charged in Baltimore County with stealing more than $20,000 from the non-profit.

By Alison Knezevich

Mar 31, 2016

Crowds perused tables of long guns, handguns, boxes of ammo, and accessories from sights to nylon cases in camo prints and pink trim Saturday at the Timonium Gun Show at the state fairgrounds.

By Jessica Anderson

Jan 16, 2016

Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler plans to work with a handful state legislators during the upcoming Maryland General Assembly session to modify the state's strict gun laws, making it easier for residents to obtain a handgun permit, especially those who are in "imminent danger."

By David Anderson

Jan 6, 2016

WASHINGTON — Maryland already has some of the tightest restrictions on gun sales in the nation, but gun control advocates on Monday said President Barack Obama's expected executive actions may address an outstanding issue: Weapons trafficked in to Baltimore from other states.

By John Fritze

Jan 4, 2016

Given Congress' refusal to act, the president is right to look for ways to strengthen the nation's gun laws through executive action

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, president of the Washington-based U.S. Conference of Mayors, issued a statement through the group on the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., Wednesday, calling it an "all-too-familiar" occurrence.

By Colin Campbell

Dec 2, 2015

When politicians make a point of proudly supporting the NRA, they stand in opposition to the wishes of the majority of the nation's electorate. More importantly, they stand in the way of taking action to stop the bleeding on the streets and in shopping centers, movies, schools and homes.

Baltimore has seen two mass shootings since Thursday's massacre in Oregon, but few — even those who live here — notice it.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will call for new gun control measures on Monday, including the use of executive action to tighten loopholes if Congress won't act, a campaign aide said.

By John Fritze

Oct 5, 2015

Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley is calling for universal background checks for firearms purchases and a national age requirement for handgun possession as part of a broad gun control proposal his campaign released on Monday.

By John Fritze

Sep 14, 2015

The first week of school was a busy one for Carroll County Public Schools' new supervisor of school security and emergency management Duane Williams.

Only a year into their mission, the National Center for Citizen Safety is staying "survivor strong" as its members diligently raise public awareness of safety protocols in citizen responses to domestic terrorism like the 2014 Columbia mall shooting in preparation for their Survivor Strong 5k Run & Walk on Aug. 30 in Columbia.

By Andrew Michaels

Aug 26, 2015

To discuss the implementation of security policies and procedures within Carroll County Public Schools, the Board of Education's Security Advisory Committee will meet on Friday at West Middle School.

The debate over federal gun control has emerged as an unexpected issue in Maryland's feisty Senate contest, with the two declared Democratic candidates working to demonstrate their commitment on a touchstone subject that has long been stalled in Washington.

By John Fritze

Jul 7, 2015

A new study of Connecticut¿s handgun licensing law offers some hope to a violence-ravaged Baltimore.

Sometimes it takes corporate leaders to fight policies as shameful as Indiana's religious-freedom law

Gov. Martin O'Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown are kidding themselves with the 2013 firearms safety act.

When visitors walked up the front door ay many of the school buildings in Carroll County on the first day of classes, they were met with a newly installed multi-layer security system to keep students safer.

Lawyers for the state and gun rights advocates sparred in federal court Tuesday about the government's power to hem in the Second Amendment to ward off mass shootings.

ATLANTA (AP) ¿ Georgia school leaders are turning down a new option to arm teachers, arguing that it doesn't make kids any safer and creates more problems than state lawmakers intended to solve.

Getting mentally ill people into treatment

When Master Deputy Jeremy Holland speaks to high school students about the effects of drug abuse, his comments not only reflect his knowledge of the law, but also his experiences with abusers.

By the middle of last week, just four days after the shooting at The Mall in Columbia that left three people dead, some in TV news wanted to move on.