wars and interventions
- Alan Walden, the former WBAL radio anchor, has been emceeing the Memorial Day event at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens for 25 years and is a huge supporter of the military. He lives in Cross Keys.
- "The Lincoln Myth" overturns misconceptions about Abraham Lincoln, the Mormon Church and the legality of secession
- A highlight of the exhibit, which explores Americans' relationship with the flag, is a mural created by the artist Sheila Pree Bright of 15 portraits of Baltimoreans posing with Old Glory
- More than students, Boko Haram seeks to terrorize parents
- Despite the sneers of MSNBC hosts and the disdainful manner of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Benghazi matters. And it matters in ways we don't yet even understand -- deep, fractious ways that reveal a major front in the culture war almost no one seems to understand or want to even talk about.
- On Monday, Truc Thi Ly Nguyen was crouched at the foot basin of a man receiving a pedicure, when a man walked in, aimed a gun at the seated customer, exchanged words and fired repeatedly.
- The U.S. must help Nigerian authorities rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist extremists
- A recap nof the May 4 episode of "Mad Men," as Don and SC&P continue to not get along. That, and there's a computer in the building.
- Havre de Grace won't be the only happening spot in Harford County this weekend. Events are planned throughout Harford, beginning with First Fridays in Bel Air and Havre de Grace, an American Civil War Day at Southampton Middle School, a 5K benefit run at Harford Community College and a handful of high school plays.
- Over the past three years, Wilde Lake High School senior Daniel Ingham says he has learned something each year at the annual Student Learning Conference that has changed his life.
- Seven cannons around the Patterson Park Pagoda aren't just reproductions, as many had thought, but date back hundreds of years and were likely used in the War of 1812.
- A state lawmaker and Baltimore Pastor is expected to speak out at Sunday's church service about what he calls "racist comments" by Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
- "Radiance of Tomorrow" explores Sierra Leone's attempts to rebuild itself after a decade-long civil war
- The Navy will award its highest non-combat decoration for heroism Friday to Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark A. Mayo of Hagerstown. Mayo was killed last month in a shooting in Norfolk, Va.