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Despite Beretta's threats that the company would leave Maryland if new gun laws were passed and signed by Gov. Martin O'Malley, Beretta USA has no current plans to abandon its headquarters in Prince George's County.

Benjamin Lipsitz, whose fierce commitment to the spirit and letter of the law led him to defend a would-be assassin, a Nazi sympathizer and a craven murderer during a career that spanned more than a half-century, died May 10. He was 94.

Annapolis company's head was named Entrepreneurial Success of the Year in April by the U.S. Small Business Administration

Benghazi investigation is just about political posturing and not about substance

The U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground plans to conduct a firing program beginning on or about May 20 and ending on or about May 24

Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, a former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University department of mathematics whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a book, died April 24 from heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83.

Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown became the first candidate to enter the 2014 Maryland governor's race Friday with a call to close the gap between rich and poor in education, health and economic opportunity.

Donald A. Krach, former general counsel for the Maryland Port Administration who earlier had practiced maritime and commercial law, died May 4 from complications of pancreatic cancer at his Timonium home. He was 80.

Seeking to emerge from the long shadow of Gov. Martin O'Malley, Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown will make official Friday what everyone in Maryland politics has known for a long time: He's running for governor.

NEPA prevented great harm to the Chesapeake Bay, but now some in Congress want to undermine it

William H. Hoffman, a retired Food and Drug Administration official, died Monday from septic shock following kidney transplant surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 81.

The Pentagon estimated Tuesday that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted last year, 36 percent more than a year earlier, in a trend so severe that senior officials warned it could threaten recruiting and retention of military personnel.

Isaiah Dixon Jr., a jazz fan, world traveler and four-term state delegate from Baltimore City whose accomplishments included sponsorship of a bill that made cross burnings a felony in Maryland, died of heart failure April 26 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 90.

Richard F. Ober, a retired lawyer and insurance company executive who was an avid Chesapeake Bay sailor, died April 13 from complications of vascular disease at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 98.

The first troops showed up on a Saturday morning at the four-bedroom house in Columbia heavily armed: saws, hammers, crowbars, drills. They have returned three times since and are expected to be back again next week in hopes of making repairs upstairs and down, inside and out.

Six military veterans from Maryland pleaded guilty this week to defrauding the government by obtaining federal military benefits with faked documentation that they were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office.

With Havre de Grace's election just around the corner, on May 7, voters will get the chance to cast their vote for one of two mayoral candidates and three of five candidates running for city council.

A group of Korean War veterans presented a $1,000 donation to the Harford County Public Library Thursday in an effort to support library programs to commemorate this year's 60th anniversary of the end of the war.

Laurel is sandwiched between Baltimore and Washington, about a half-hour drive away from either city, and at Main Street Sports Grill, baseball loyalties were divided between the two teams.

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Development proposals, both public and private, have fallen through over the years, and the island has been overrun by thousands of birds. But members of the family that owns Fort Carroll and they still have hopes for it.

President Barack Obama awarded Navy's football team with the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy on Thursday afternoon in the East Room at the White House.

Ronald J. Biglin, a former business professor at what is now Loyola University Maryland who also owned a winery and distribution company, died Monday from renal failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 81.

Leon Nelson, a retired state security officer assigned to the Department of Health and Human Services, died of cancer April 4 at Seasons Hospice in Randallstown. The Inner Harbor resident was 85.

Two U.S. Navy sailors who died diving in the Super Pond at Aberdeen Proving Ground in February accidentally drowned, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Monday.

William J. Kunkel took the oath of office as Harford County's third sheriff in the past month. The 35-year-old veteran police officer was named to the post following the sudden deaths of former sheriffs Raymond Fulker and Paul Stearns

Jesse S. Weinberg, who practiced law for seven decades and made a specialty of Baltimore's ground rents, died of respiratory failure March 20.

Congress should pay for its wars in blood as well as money

Marianna Inga Burt, an attorney who represented children, died of cardiovascular disease March 12 at Union Memorial Hospital. She was 80 and lived in the Tuscany-Canterbury section of North Baltimore.

When Retired Master Sgt. Sheryl A. Webb left the U.S., Army in 1997, she was scarcely aware of services the U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals offered services tailored to women

Four of the six jurisdictions that have bounced back to their pre-recession levels of growth are in the Charm City metro.

Sun fails to cover death of eight Marines in training accident

While hundreds of thousands of federal workers brace for unpaid furloughs starting next month, Uncle Sam is still looking to hire.

Maryland is certainly known for its sports figures. Many successes in the sports world are credited to the state, and Aberdeen.

Heather Spiker-MacPherson, 32, has always dreamed of being a chef. On Friday, the culinary student at Stratford University and staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserves will be able to put her skills to the test at a "Top-Chef"-style competition at Baltimore Green Works' EcoBall.

T'Jae Gibson, of Abingdon, won first place in the Community Relations-Special Events category at the major command level in a U.S. Army public affairs competition

More than 1,300 unmarried junior enlisted soldiers, sailors and other service members drive into Fort Meade every work day because they don't live on post — can't, actually, because the barracks are full and other homes there are for families.

Sara Cullen, a captain in the U.S. Army, died along with four other Army members in southern Afghanistan in a helicopter crash on Monday

The first Marylander to fatally contract rabies since 1976 developed the virus through an organ transplant that took place more than a year before the victim recently died, Maryland health officials said.

Aberdeen Proving Ground officials have received a preliminary briefing on the investigation into the first of three diver deaths at the post's Super Pond test facility in the last two months.

Although workers building express toll lanes have become a common sight on I-95 in Baltimore County, Harford County residents should not expect to see the same thing in the near future.

They need to remember they ought they look to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.

Ernest T. Davis, a retired construction project manager and World War II B-24 pilot, died Feb. 13 from heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 92.

After he was raped by a fellow Navy sailor, Brian Lewis wanted justice. What he got, the Baltimore man told a Senate panel Wednesday, was an order to keep quiet.

Other states woo Maryland's gun manufacturers

The Coast Guard suspended its search for two men missing in waters about 15 miles off the coast of Assateague Island, who were on a fishing boat that sunk Wednesday.

Dr. Gerald D. Klee, a retired psychiatrist who was an expert with LSD and was involved in its experimentation at several military installations in the late 1950s, died Sunday from complications following surgery at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 86.