National Security Agency

Balancing cybersecurity and privacy

2012-05-14 08:32:00

From the assembly lines of Detroit to the steel mills of Pittsburgh to the oil fields of Houston, our country has been built by an entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation. And despite our recent economic challenges, that spirit is alive and well....

Transportation department head, council discuss budget

2012-05-14 06:53:00

Howard County must act soon to improve its public transit options, the county's new transportation chief says, arguing that the growing population will be choked with traffic in coming years if people are not provided with better options. John Powell Jr....

Naval manager gets prison time in scrap metal scheme

2012-05-02 19:58:31

A civilian employee of the U.S. Navy who for years sold government scrap metal from Naval installations for a personal profit was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 30 months in prison for the scheme, according to U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein....

Pentagon creating new spy service

2012-04-23 17:14:00

The Pentagon is creating a new intelligence service aimed at gathering information on terrorist networks, weapons of mass destruction and other emerging concerns, a senior defense official said Monday. The new Defense Clandestine Service will draw...

Amid uncertainty, county officials attempt to plan budget

2012-04-15 07:45:00

Howard County Executive Ken Ulman is expected to unveil his budget proposal April 20, despite the uncertainty of state funding. Ulman and county budget administrator Ray Wacks gave few details this week, saying the uncertainty at the state level has...

Rosie Louise Stanfield, Spring Grove nursing director

2012-04-19 13:21:00

Rosie L. Stanfield, a registered nurse who later became the first African-American director of nursing at Spring Grove Hospital Center, died Saturday of ovarian cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. The longtime Randallstown resident was 66. The...

An embarrassing deadlock in Arundel

2012-02-26 05:00:00

It would be amusing if it were not so embarrassing: The all-male, all-white Anne Arundel County Council is deadlocked over filling a vacancy created when its only black member went off to federal prison for failing to file a tax return. The council's...

Company to launch data center at old Boscov's location in Glen Burnie

2012-03-20 14:39:00

A Beltsville technology company that bought a former department store building in Glen Burnie said this week it plans to convert it into a sprawling data center for government and commercial customers. Privately-held AiNet Corp., which owns and...

Parkway Theatre needs to flourish again

2012-03-23 18:07:29

I keep an old photograph of a thriving North Avenue taped to my desk. The largest sign projecting over the sidewalk is that of the Parkway Theatre. But for more than 30 years now, the movie theater has been closed and hasn't been doing what it should be...

Woman defrauds NSA for family firm, then embezzles $4.5 million

2012-03-08 17:50:00

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the final member of a family business that was used to cheat the National Security Agency out of nearly $1.5 million, prosecutors said. Christina Turley Knott, 51, of Edgewater, was sentenced to 15 months in...

Maryland added 8,000 jobs in February

2012-03-30 15:09:03

Maryland's employers added 8,000 jobs in February, the latest sign of the state's economic recovery, labor officials said Friday. It's the sixth month in a row of jobs gains. The state's jobless rate remained unchanged at 6.5 percent from a month...

Northrop Grumman to lay off at Fort Meade, elsewhere

2012-02-17 12:47:00

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. warned state regulators Friday that it will be laying off 224 employees across the country, including dozens based at Fort Meade, after losing a contract to provide security for a government agency. But a...

John "Chris" Inglis, deputy director of the National Security Agency

2012-04-17 00:00:00

Menchville's Tori Browne and Nansemond-Suffolk Academy's Maya Venkatarman scramble for possession during Wednesday's game.

2012-03-14 18:25:00

, Jon Voight and Regina King. Though set in Washington and Baltimore, most of the filming was done in Baltimore.

2012-01-05 07:30:09