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Twelve Glenwood Middle School students in the school's first-ever leadership class have created their own service learning projects after reading the book "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens." One student bet his teacher — and won — that if he raised $300 for his charity, the teacher would wear a cow suit. -
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- 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
- An Army officer from Eldersburg was among five soldiers killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said Saturday.
- 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.
- Why should giant defense contractor Lockheed Martin get a hotel tax break that it doesn't need and Maryland can't afford?
- College freshman Daniel Zablocky recently received his appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. A Patterson Mill High School graduate, Zablocky is the son of Paul and Barbara Zablocky of Bel Air. Attending Marion Military Institute in Alabama, he will report to West Point this summer to join the class of 2017.
- Member of Carroll County Board of Commissioners among leading opponents
- A 34-year-old Florida man pleaded guilty late Wednesday to illegally selling expensive night-vision goggles and other military-style vision gear to an undercover federal agent in Baltimore who was pretending to be overseas — and now faces 20 years in prison for doing so.
- Harford County, home to a major federal installation in Aberdeen Proving Ground and the massive federal military and civilian workforce that comes with it, is bracing for federal spending cuts – known as sequestration – which could have a ripple effect far beyond Aberdeen.
- It's something to think about when noticing that a flag flying over a county building appears to have too many stripes (15) and too few stars (15).
- The Army will hold a public information meeting in Edgewood next week to go over its findings in connection with a former salvage site on Aberdeen Proving Ground where a small amount of radioactive material was found beginning in 2009.
- Second time in two weeks for unauthorized trip
- A former Naval Academy instructor will be court-martialed for an alleged sexual assault on a female midshipman, an academy spokeswoman said Thursday.
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- Local youth football teams such as the Hampstead Ravens feel a kinship to the Super Bowl-bound Baltimore Ravens whose name they took after the team arrived in 1996.
- When Maryland National Guard Capt. Cara Kupcho first enlisted in the military 18 years ago, she wanted to drive a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. "I like things that go boom," she explained Thursday. "I like tanks."
- Endless chatter about the "fiscal cliff" has avoided serious consideration of military spending, a major cause of our difficulties. Defense appropriations are $525 billion for 2013 — 57 percent of the discretionary budget, more than those of all other departments and agencies combined. The U.S. military has twice the budget as the seven next nations combined. We could have an effective military at a far lower cost. Why are expenditures so high?
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- The idea of Second Amendment nuts that they could resist a tyrannical government is lunacy.
- Maryland's governor needs to enforce existing laws, not create harmful new curbs on gun ownership
- The diversity of the military and of Harford County at large is a sign of how far the country has come since Martin Luther King Jr., made his "I have a dream" speech in 1963, Aberdeen Proving Ground's new commanding general said Thursday.
- A Marine Corps officer who worked as an instructor at the Naval Academy has been accused of sexually assaulting a female midshipman in his Annapolis apartment following the annual croquet match between the academy and St. John's College in 2011.
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- Women should get chance to serve on military front line
- Army Staff Sgt. Jennifer Hunt, a Gaithersburg reservist, is one of four servicewomen suing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to end the long-standing policy that excludes women from serving in direct combat.
- The government bars me from arguing on behalf of my client, a Pakistani boy seized when he was 14
- Forest Hill volunteer brings Christmas lights to veteran's home
- A Pennsylvania woman will be one of the first amputees to replace a lost limb using thought-powered technology capable of humanlike dexterity, developed at Johns Hopkins.
- Mike Barnes, a member of the Baltimore Colts' famed "Sack Pack," had a key field goal block against the Denver Broncos in 1978.
- The country's young ruler, Kim Jong Un, replays the intimidation and threats of his late father
- Defense contractor Raytheon Co. said Wednesday it has acquired the government solutions business of Harford County-based SafeNet Inc., a cyber security company that had previously announced the sale of that piece of the business to an undisclosed buyer.
- As the endgame of Syria's civil war draws near, the U.S. needs to be ready for what comes next
- Like her classmates at the U.S. Naval Academy, Midshipman 1st Class Dagmara Broniatowska came to Annapolis for plebe summer, learned how to salute, ran the endurance course, and memorized the body of American military information, history and quotations known as the Rates.
- The field in the YMCA Turkey Trot in Bel Air continues to swell, like a turkey in a pre-Thanksgiving fattening regimen. When the annual 5K went off for the 17th time last Thursday, 1,285 runners stood behind the starting line, so many that it took 2 minutes for the hindmost to clear the line.
- American meddling in the Arab world has produced decades of disasters, so why are we still there?
- On the day that the Howard County school board apologized for the system's treatment of African-American students during segregation, Dottie Cook thought back to her middle school days, when she received a hand-me-down education that included tattered books with her uncle's name written in them.
- Service a theme in conflicts, past and present
- Students at Veterans Elementary School in Ellicott City welcomed members of the Yingling-Ridgely VFW Post 7472 and the Ladies Auxiliary of the post to celebrate Veterans Day.
- Kool Smiles, a dental practice which maintains five offices in the city and more than 100 across the country, has organized Operation Troop Treats, a program that simultaneously fights tooth decay and supports soldiers in the war zones.
