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- Brannock Brannock, a Boston Marathon bombing victim, slides to the edge of her wheelchair. She looks down at a pair of carefully selected gray New Balance sneakers. And stands. Her thigh slides deeper into a soft plastic socket as she shifts her weight from her right leg to her new prosthetic leg. The bone where her left leg was amputated sends a sharp, shooting pain, and she starts to cry. Not because it hurts. Because she is about to walk again, her first steps in 173 days.
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City police and organizers of this weekend's Baltimore Marathon say they are stepping up security after explosions shook the end of the Boston race this spring, joining other recent running events that have placed restrictions around the finish line. - National security starts with stricter immigration standards
- A new policy announced by the NFL on Thursday will prevent Ravens fans from carrying bags into M&T Bank Stadium this season unless they are made of a clear material.
- More guns in Bostonians' hands would not have prevented the Marathon week events — and might have made things worse
- When NRA leadership touts Boston as made helpless and terrified by bombings (with the only remedy buying more guns), one has to question whose side they are on
- Ordinary citizens play a key role in preventing attacks, but many of us have slipped into complacency
- Blocking entry of radicals is good for Israel and for the United States
- Twenty-some years ago, when I already had kids and a friend was thinking about having one, she admitted to me that she really doesn't like children much, but I assured her she would like — and love — her own.
- The Maryland Jockey Club has unveiled enhanced security plans for the 138th Preakness in the wake of the recent deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.
- The Maryland Jockey Club has unveiled enhanced security plans for the 138th Preakness Stakes in the wake of recent deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.
- Ethnic Chechens who have taken asylum in the U.S. from their war-torn state on the southern border of the Russian Federation are disgraced by Boston bombing.
- Catonsville resident and Boston University student Caitlin Donnelly is one of the thousand of Boston residents striving to return to normal less than two weeks after the Boston Marathon Bombings.
- All Americans entitled to a day in court including Boston bombing suspect
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- Whether the Boston bombers used mortar-style fireworks to create their bombs is notable but safety concerns alone may justify stricter controls on pyrotechnics
- Local runners packed Charm City Run in downtown Bel Air Monday evening, and even spilled outside onto South Main Street.
- Calls for Boston bombing suspect to be tried as an enemy combatant are irresponsible, dangerous and unconstitutional but not terribly surprising
- A week that began with terror ended with a display of collective determination by the people of Boston to restore order and justice that makes us all proud.