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Two cross-dressing men who were shot at by National Security Agency police when they disobeyed orders at a heavily guarded gate had just stolen a car from a man who picked them up for a motel “party,” police said Tuesday. One suspect was killed and the other was injured, along with an NSA police officer, as the driver of the stolen SUV apparently tried to get away from the guards. The SUV’s owner, a 60-year-old man from Baltimore who has not been publicly identified, told investigators that he had picked up the two strangers in Baltimore. They arrived around 7:30...

WHAT WAS Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. thinking when he attended a fund-raiser last month at the Elkridge Club, which has never had an African-American member? It turns out that he hasn't been bothered a bit - by the club's history or by criticism that he ignored it. Responses this week by Governor Ehrlich and by Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele that the club's membership is not their concern are unacceptable. It's not enough for Mr. Ehrlich, a Republican, to point fingers and complain that Democrats have also used the club. We don't defend those Democrats either. But Mr. Ehrlich...