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We should support giving our children a better educational start and helping our national security.

Attorneys for Pfc. Bradley Manning opened their defense of the Army analyst Monday by portraying him as a computer whiz operating under loose guidelines whose decision to leak reams of classified documents was based on a well-intentioned sense of idealism.

For the eighth consecutive year, dozens of people became U.S. citizens during a July Fourth ceremony at the Annapolis estate of a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.

Confederate Gen. Lewis Addison Armistead, who was mortally wounded during Pickett's ill-fated charge at Gettysburg, sleeps away the ages in a quiet Baltimore cemetery. And how he came to spend eternity here is somewhat of a mystery.

The Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center has placed an engineer on administrative leave after a civil rights organization accused him of having ties to white supremacy groups.

It was June in 1960 in Aberdeen, and one of the town's organizations was celebrating its 25th anniversary with "The Arc Lite." The R. Lee Mitchell family saved this program, and it was included in a scrapbook of 1960

Harford County community leaders have been named to participate in the sixth annual "Dancing for the Arts" fundraiser for the Center for the Arts. The event is planned for Sept. from 6:30 to 11 p.m. at the Bulle Rock Residents' Club in Havre de Grace.

Dr. Stuart Walker, a 90-year-old retired pediatrician from Annapolis, will be inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame this fall, officials announced Tuesday.

An Air Force member who was based at Fort Meade has been found dead, officials said Friday.

The wrongs seem to greatly outnumber the rights these days

Edward Trail Mathias, a retired banker and longtime denizen of Bolton Hill, died June 17 from complications of a stroke at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 85.

Howard County rec sports for the week of June 27

Aiming to excite local seventh-grade girls about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, subject matter experts from the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center recently supported Project DREAM Work's Girls STEM Discovery Day at Harford Community College

As part of its military appreciation night, the Philadelphia Soul of the Arena Football League will hold a full-contact exhibition pitting Navy veterans against Army veterans after the Soul's 6:05 p.m. game against the Iowa Barnstormers.

The Korean War is often known as the "forgotten war," but local veterans of the bloody three-year-conflict on the Korean Peninsula will be sharing their memories with Harford County residents this weekend, 60 years after the guns were silenced.

Army officials are canceling plans to reopen the former Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground as the APG Museum, reportedly due to federal budget concerns.

A 60-year-old fire station in Mount Washington is getting a tune-up this week from a team of Maryland National Guard engineers as part of a new civic partnership aimed at benefiting the community while providing on-the-job training for deploying guardsmen.

The purpose of this letter is to notify Maryland State and Local representatives of the impending closure of the U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Museum at the end of this fiscal year!

Maj. Gen. Robert S. Ferrell, senior commander at Aberdeen Proving Ground, received the Military Leader of the Year award from the Association of Defense Communities during a ceremony in Washington on Thursday.

Secret to computer security is to be found off-line

2,000 participants, $120,000 for Wounded Warrior Project expected for 24-hour lacrosse game at McDonogh

Aberdeen Proving Ground continued to make computing history, as it formally unveiled a new supercomputer system Monday, one of only five such Army facilities in the country.

Columnist fails to acknowledge the hardships U.S. immigrants have long faced

Edward Joseph Snowden, the government contractor who revealed the National Security Agency's massive telephone- and Internet-surveillance program, has left few public clues about his life growing up in Crofton and Ellicott City

In its broad outlines, the case of Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old intelligence contractor who last week revealed the existence of two top secret National Security Agency eavesdropping programs, hews closely to the contours set by Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.

The Guardian newspaper has identified a 29-year-old man who once lived in Maryland as the source of the top secret documents that revealed details of two National Security Agency surveillance programs that have revived debate of the agency's reach into the private lives of Americans.

Herbert B. Groh, whose nearly seven decades as a Baltimore-based mariner spanned the gamut from running errands on the city docks of the 1930s to life as a harbor pilot and tugboat captain, and who helped rescue and rehabilitate the liberty ship-turned-floating-museum John W. Brown, died June 6 after a heart attack at the Catonsville Commons nursing home. He was 92.

Dr. Martin Helrich, a pioneering anesthesiologist who had headed the department of anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died Sunday from complications of heart disease at his Pikesville home.

Second Lt. Stephen James Peck, son of William and Donna Peck of Abingdon, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy on May 25.

The 26th annual Columbia Festival of the Arts once again brings an impressive roster of performers to Howard County from June 14- 29. Some of these performers are returning favorites, while others are first-timers. Some will take a bow on their own, while others will collaborate with homegrown talent. All of them are booked by the festival in order to provide memorable artistic experiences for local audiences.

Joseph S. Eubanks, a noted bass-baritone and Morgan State University music professor who was a member of the first American company of "Porgy and Bess" to tour the world, died May 16.

With their reluctance to embrace needed reforms, the nation's uniformed military leaders are missing in action regarding the rise of sexual assaults in their ranks

Elliott and Phyllis Ruby of Aberdeen announce the engagement of their daughter, Kristin Ruby, to Nathan Ander, son of Paul and Janet Ander of Baltimore

At least 100 members of the Bel Air community came out early Saturday morning to Shamrock Park for the Town of Bel Air's annual Flag Day Ceremony.

Protesters at Fort Meade marched Saturday in support of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has acknowledged giving hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks and whose court-martial on other charges will begin this week.

Fort Meade officials plan to close the main gate of the Army base in Anne Arundel County on Saturday, but police said they didn't not have plans to limit traffic on surrounding roads during a mass demonstration for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.

In Bel Air, Flag Day will be celebrated this year from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 1, at Shamrock Park behind Bel Air Town Hall.

Walter E. Woodford Jr., a state highway engineer and executive who supervised road construction from Ocean City to Garrett County and headed building of the second span of the Bay Bridge in 1973, died of congestive heart failure May 22 at the Hospice Center in Centreville. He was 88 and had lived in Timonium and Centreville.

Edwin L. Kess, a retired labor relations director and active churchman, died May 22 from cancer. He was 86

Harry F. Hansen, a highly decorated World War II veteran who landed in the initial wave of troops on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, died on Memorial Day from complications of a stroke. He was 96.

Four Baltimore-area football players were nominated to play in the 2014 U.S. Army All-American Bowl, the annual showcase to be played between 90 of the nation's top senior prospects on Jan. 4 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

Annual Monday morning event features flags, bagpipes and speeches

For Theresa Mills, the "most emotional day" was the day last June when the Marine Corps notification team visited her Laurel home to tell her that her older son had been killed in Afghanistan. The second most emotional day, she said, came Monday.

Based on his research and calculations, the Rev. Lewis Geigan estimates that more than 1.7 million Americans have given their lives to protect their country.

Homeland resident Lynn Coffland and the Catch A Lift Fund organization to be honored at this year's ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. She lost her brother, soldier Chris in 2009 and started this non-profit program in his honor. Its mission is to help wounded vets return to their lives and the gym. The foundation provides gym memberships or home gym equipment to wounded veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

In his new book, "The GAMe: Unraveling a Military Sex Scandal," just released by Beaver's Pond Press, the former general points out the U.S. Department of Defense's latest estimates show that at least 18,000 service members are sexually assaulted each year, and possibly as many as 26,000.

U.S. Army Capt. Sara M. Knutson-Cullen, a former Eldersburg resident who died in a helicopter crash in Kandahar on March 11, will be among the honorees at the May 27 Memorial Day service at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium.

Jail needs a governor who leads and less union interference with correctional officers