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A new report highlights actions Maryland has taken that will reduce gun deaths.

"Roulette," a psycho-thriller by Maryland native Erik Kristopher Myers, will be sure to leave you feeling tense and on-edge.

Howard County is asking a federal court to throw out a former Fire Department battalion chief's lawsuit, arguing that the Facebook posts that triggered his dismissal were not constitutionally protected because they were "at best, personal opinion or pique and, at worst, insubordinate."

A former Howard County fire officer is suing in federal court to get his job back, alleging that the county violated his constitutional rights by firing him for his personal Facebook posts and responses involving gun control, free speech, "liberal" politics and remarks the county considered racially insensitive.

Supreme Court's decision not to review case involving Maryland's limits on handgun permits bodes well for gun control at the state and local level

Elementary schools in Howard County received a new feature over the summer: buzz-in systems to enhance each school's security and safety.

Elementary schools in Howard County received a new feature over the summer: buzz-in systems to enhance each school's security and safety.

America's gun culture runs so deep that not even a mass shooting gives us pause anymore.

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

Carroll County Public Schools joined with local law enforcement agencies Friday to announce the Adopt-A-School Program, which aims to increase school security and enhance health and safety instruction with the participation of police officers.

Now that Chris Davis is assured the starting spot at first base on the American League All-Star team, another obvious question is lingering. Will he represent the AL in the Home Run Derby?

Maryland's new gun control law will not head to voters now that organizers of a petition drive to halt the law failed to turn in any signatures before Friday night's deadline.

At two-hour a summit meeting Friday between officials, the boy, his parents and the attorney, the school system agreed to end the suspension early.

After Josephine "Joey" Gay, the 7-year-old daughter of a Towson native and Calvert Hall grad, perished in the Newtown shootings, former classmates and friends organized an autism fundraiser, Joey's Purple Ball, taking place June 8.

I've never been one to let sensational news guide by parenting. I send the kids off to school each day without thinking of the terrible Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. I try not to think of all the people who die in car accidents when I hand the car keys to my 16-year-old son.

Baltimore's Jill Smokler, aka Scary Mommy, discusses her new book and motherhood.

Just when it was starting to look like cable news might have actually learned something from its rush-to-judgment sins in covering the Newtown massacre, John King, CNN and Fox News showed Wednesday how shaky and journalistically confused even the genre's biggest dogs are these days when confronted with a major, ongoing news story.

The Loyola men's lacrosse program will host nearly 50 players and family members from Newtown (Conn.) Youth Lacrosse on Saturday when the No. 8 Greyhounds host No. 1 Denver in their regular-season home finale at 1 p.m. at Ridley Athletic Complex.

NRA-financed task force on school safety endorses arming school employees but stays silent on gun control

On balance, Gov. Martin O'Malley's gun control bill has gotten stronger as it has moved through the House of Delegates.

So much do we fetishize gun ownership that we cannot enact the barest restrictions to protect our children.

An attorney for an Anne Arundel County 7-year-old suspended for allegedly nibbling a pastry into the shape of a pistol has filed a formal appeal with the county Superintendent to have the suspension overturned and the student's record expunged, saying he will "go all the way to the Maryland Court of Appeals" if the school system does not comply.

The Howard County Joint Task Force on School Safety, established after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. last year, issued its final report Monday, March 18, with the school system working on implementing its recommendations immediately.

The Howard County School Safety Task Force, convened after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. has issued preliminary recommendations to improve school safety and community relationships. A final report is Monday, March 18.

Maryland's gun control debate drew about 2,000 people to Annapolis Friday as the House of Delegates began considering a bill to ban assault weapons, limit magazines to 10 rounds and enact some of the nation's strictest licensing requirements.

State of the Union plea for Congress to act on gun control strikes a chord with most Americans

Jules Witcover says Sen. Marco Rubio's response to President Obama's speech was a weak recycling of familiar talking points.

President Barack Obama used the first State of the Union address of his second term to try to breathe new life into his economic agenda, reviving modest measures to spur growth and trying to create fresh momentum in the all-but-stagnant talks over deficit reduction.

We have to introduce legislation that would address the root cause of the problem and eliminate or at least reduce the number of these horrible incidents. The root cause of such behaviors is lack of "parental accountability." The "majority" of parents view school as a daycare service. They don't check homework, drugs, weapons or gang affiliations. The Sandy Hook mother that was the responsible person in that massacre paid with her life. To save the lives of other mothers, fathers and innocent

Bills designed to keep guns out of the hands of psychiatric patients pose risks.

WASHINGTON — Responding to gun control loopholes that have proven vexing for police in Maryland and elsewhere, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings will introduce bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to impose tougher penalties for people who traffic guns across state borders or buy them for someone else.

WASHINGTON — Speaking at an emotional hearing on federal gun control proposals, Baltimore County Police Chief James W. Johnson urged lawmakers Wednesday to close loopholes and ban assault weapon sales or risk more tragedies like the recent elementary school shooting in Connecticut.

All Havre de Grace schools will now have a school resource officer through the end of the school year.

Plans to limit assault weapons and other gun control proposals are badly needed

Jules Witcover says the NRA is clearly in no mood to acquiesce to the president on gun control.

Laurel High School is the only high school in Prince George's County Public Schools to not have a student resource officer.

After Havre de Grace's Council just agreed to add two more school resource officers to its patrol in light of the Newtown, Conn., shooting, the Harford County Council and Board of Education may be looking into doing the same.