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The Pentagon is targeting the Cold War-era 'Warthog' plane for retirement amid budget cuts.

Milton Bromberg, a custom tailor and decorated World War II veteran who visited the White House to fit President Bill Clinton in suits, died of respiratory failure Nov. 1 at Season's Hospice at the Northwest Hospital Center. He was 90 and lived in Owings Mills.

Two former Naval Academy football players will be court martialed in early 2014 for alleged sexual assault of a female classmate.

Vince Marucci and Joe DiGangi were in the same class at West Point, went to Stanford University for master's degrees, returned to West Point to teach and later ended up working at the same Columbia tech firm. So it's not surprising that they decided to start a business together. Their lives kept intersecting. Q&A with founders of Trusant Technologies.

I wonder if my Laurel friends and neighbors are aware of what's been happening in the military lately. Those who defend our freedoms have been losing theirs; instances of religious persecution in the military have become a somewhat regular occurrence.

The film 'Gravity' should remind us of how far the president has allowed us to fall behind China when it comes to human spaceflight.

The president has effectively admitted to doing what he can to make the government shutdown as damaging as possible.

The superintendent of the Naval Academy has referred two former members of the Navy football team to a court-martial on charges they sexually assaulted a fellow midshipmen while she was incapacitated at a party in Annapolis, the academy said Thursday.

A suspension of U.S. military aid may be too little, too late to force Egypt's generals to restore civilian rule

About two thirds of the civilian workforce at Aberdeen Proving Ground has been on furlough for the past week because of the partial federal government shutdown, but the 30 to 40 percent of employees who remained on post will be seeing many of their colleagues this week as the Department of Defense recalls civilian employees, APG officials announced Monday

The federal government intertwines with Maryland businesses in many ways, which leaves many ways for Maryland businesses to feel the pinch when large pieces of D.C. machinery come to a sudden halt.

The federal shutdown has furloughed many public employees and curtailed some services, but one sign of government activity has continued to hover over Baltimore undeterred.

As agencies sent nonessential employees home, unions and other advocates for federal employees warned that the seemingly endless succession of fiscal crises and cuts is threatening the ability of the government to recruit and retain the best talent.

The mail centers will be closed this weekend and business has slowed down, as life at Aberdeen Proving Ground adjusts to first few days of the federal government shutdown.

A decision about this week's college football game between Navy and Air Force in Annapolis will be made Thursday after "a legal review" is completed on how the game will be funded and staffed during the government shutdown, a U.S. Department of Defense senior official said Wednesday.

Tom Clancy, the Baltimore-born author whose novels include "The Hunt for Red October, "Red Storm Rising" and "Patriot Games," died yesterday after a brief illness at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 66.

Pentagon policy provides uncharged leave for same-sex couples to travel somewhere they can be legally wed

Criticism of the recent sexual abuse hearing at the Naval Academy misses the mark.

Effects of the partial federal government shutdown Tuesday were felt across Maryland, home to 300,000 federal workers, more government contractors, and several agencies.

The department of defense has ordered the stoppage of all service academy intercollegiate athletics as a result of the government shutdown, putting Saturday's Navy-Air Force football game in question.

Pleasant Plains Elementary School will present the musical "Colors" In December Loyola Blakefield High School names Anthony I. Day new president, Calvert Hall's Bill Karpovich honored during half time of the school's Sept. 27 varsity soccer game

A possible government shutdown starting Tuesday would cause federal agencies in Maryland to close or seriously cut back operations, resulting in significant hardship for federal workers, as well as declining economic output and lower tax revenue for the state.

Republicans in the House of Representatives were set to approve a government funding bill Saturday that would delay the nation's health care law for one year — inching federal agencies closer to a shutdown analysts predict would have a significant economic impact in Maryland.

WASHINGTON — Thousands of workers at federal agencies based in Maryland would be furloughed and their work put on hold if Congress fails to reach an agreement in coming days to fund the government, a series of agency reports released by the Obama administration Friday show.

Col. Brian Foley has taken command of Fort Meade at a challenging time for the U.S. military.

On Sept. 11, 2001, there was reason everywhere in the U.S. to be worried about what was going on, but especially in places like Harford County. The highway and rail lines that link Washington and New York pass right through the county, and Harford is home to a military installation with an international reputation.

Security procedures at the Washington Navy Yard in the nation's capital were in the public eye this week after a shooting rampage left 13 people, including the gunman, dead Monday, especially after the shooter, 34-year-old contract worker Aaron Alexis, used his security pass to enter the facility.

The deadly shooting at one of the region's largest military facilities reopened a debate Monday about whether U.S. officials have done enough to secure the nation's massive portfolio of domestic bases.

Commanders at area military installations are increasing security while police search for a shooter or shooters at the Washington Navy Yard.

North Korea's capabilities are an increasing threat, yet the Obama administration is cutting the missile defense budget.

Universities across the country perform classified work for the federal government, balancing secrecy with academic freedom

The Old Mountain Road overpass across I-95 in the Joppa area was dappled with red white and blue Wednesday as local residents waved American flags at motorists in honor of the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

"Aunt Millie" as soldiers receiving care packages in Afghanistan affectionately refer to 95-year-old Vivian "Millie" Bailey doesn't see an end in sight for the work her group does. Yet she and her volunteers are more than willing to take on more.

The "black pineapple" -- a party house for Naval Academy football players where a woman said she was sexually assault -- is just the latest off-campus party house rented by midshipmen. Renting illicit off-campus houses to escape to on the weekends is a long-standing tradition at the academy, one way to get around the academy's strict rules on drinking and sex.

Before rushing into military action in Syria, President Barack Obama needs to ask whether he's repeating the mistakes of our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The sides presented closing statements Tuesday on the eighth day of the Article 32 hearing into sexual assault allegations against the football players.

Friends of the woman at the center of a sexual assault investigation involving three members of the Naval Academy football team testified Monday that she appeared intoxicated on the night of the alleged attacks.

At a time when the military is under attack for how it handles sexual violence in its ranks, the proceedings underway at the Washington Navy Yard offer a case study on why women in uniform are so reluctant to report sexual assaults. The hearing highlights significant disparities between the way the military and civilian world treat accusers and the accused.

The days-long hearing into alleged sexual assaults involving Naval Academy football players made no progress Saturday, as the accuser again said she was too exhausted to testify.

As the hearing into alleged sexual assaults by three members of the Naval Academy football players stretched into a fourth day on Friday, the focus shifted away from the accuser and toward her high-profile lawyer.

The Naval Academy midshipman who has accused three classmates of having sex with her while she was passed out at an off-campus party turned defensive on her third day of testifying during a military hearing.

The midshipman who says she was sexually assaulted by three Naval Academy football players while she was incapacitated last spring described a boozy night of partying that left her with spotty memories and a knot in her back.