FORT MEADE — An Army private accused of sending classified material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has not been denied a speedy trial despite his lengthy pretrial confinement, and the charges against him will stand, a military judge ruled Thursday. ...

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Smiths Detection, of Edgewood, a maker of antiterrorism and security systems, has begun deliveries of Chemical Biological Protective Shelters to the U.S. Army, part of a $40 million award from a Defense Department office that oversees chemical and biological defense.

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FORT HOOD, Texas — A judge has decided a Fort Hood shooting suspect still can face the death penalty if convicted in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation. The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, on Wednesday denied Maj. ...

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FORT MEADE — A former Marine Corps brig commander testified Thursday that a vague rule meant he could keep Pfc. Bradley Manning on suicide watch even after a psychiatrist determined that wasn’t necessary, as lawyers for the soldier at the ...

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FORT MEADE — An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was wrongly kept on suicide watch for at least seven days of his nine months’ confinement at a Marine Corps brig in ...

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The Army private charged in the biggest security breach in U.S. history testified Thursday that he felt like a doomed, caged animal after he was arrested in Baghdad for allegedly sending classified information to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks. Speaking publicly ...

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Supporters of an Army private charged in the biggest security breach in U.S. history packed a military courtroom at Fort George G. Meade Tuesday as his attorneys made the case he’d already been punished enough when he was locked up ...

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ABERDEEN — A search for live explosives is prompting some changes for workers and visitors to Aberdeen Proving Ground near Aberdeen. The Army installation said Tuesday that the Route 715 gate near the visitor center will be closed Friday nights ...

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FORT HOOD, Texas — The trial for an Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting was put on hold Wednesday by an appeals court considering his objections to being forcibly shaved. Maj. Nidal Hasan had been scheduled ...

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FREDERICK — The chief environmental officer at Fort Detrick says the Army has no plans to post signs warning of potential chemical contamination in surface water. Groundwater samples taken from area wells this spring revealed the presence of chemicals used ...

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