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Air Force Airman Michael Geraghty Jr. graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio. A 2011 graduate of Arundel Senior High School, Geraghty is the son of Michael Geraghty Sr., of Laurel.

President Barack Obama and Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed have something in common. Both love the game of football but would be hesitant to expose a son to its physical dangers. "I am a big football fan, but I have to tell you, if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football," said the president in an interview with The New Republic. "I'm with Obama," said Mr. Reed. "I have a son. I am not forcing football on my son. ... All I can do is say, 'Son, I played it so you don't have to.'" During a Super Bowl week press conference in New Orleans, Mr. Reed noted that the dangers of the game had now captured the president's attention: "When you've got the president talking about it, you got something.

Air Force Airman David Kriner II completed basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, in San Antonio, Texas. He is the son of Catherine Mundorf, of Ellicott City, and David Kriner, of McLean, Va.

After every game, Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith returns to his phone and finds a text message from his former University of Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen . Some texts, like the one Friedgen sent last Saturday following the Ravens' 38-35 victory over the Denver Broncos, are congratulatory. Others offer support or encouragement. Almost all of them include Friedgen telling Smith how much his success means to him. "I try to tell him every time we talk how proud I am of him,” Friedgen said.

A man has been arrested in the shooting of his 33-year-old son in Northeast Baltimore early Monday morning, after police said they determined that the son had given a false account of how he was wounded. Larry Grafton Carter, 57, of the 1200 block of Rossiter Ave. was in police custody shortly after noon Monday, about 12 hours after police were called to his home, said Sgt. Anthony Smith, a police spokesman. Just after midnight, police found Carter's son wounded at the home. He told police he was taking out the trash when he heard two shots and was hit in the arm before fleeing inside, Smith said.

The philosopher Kahlil Gibran's meditation on children is a touching favorite among parents who have read "The Prophet. " In it, he captures perfectly the helplessness we feel as our children go out into the world, into the future, and necessarily leave us behind. He writes to us, "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. " While we understand that we cannot set the path of the arrow across the infinite or mark its landing, we want to believe that we are "the bow that is stable," that our strength and love will help our children go swift and far. I am sure Nancy Lanza wanted to be that bow for her son, Adam, who killed her and then 20 schoolchildren and six women who cared for them in Newtown, Conn.

Harry Ratrie Jr., a World War II and Korean War veteran who became a leading businessman in Maryland's highway construction industry, died Dec. 8 of a heart attack at a hospital in Naples, Fla. The longtime Baltimore County resident, who moved to Florida in his later years, was 90. Mr. Ratrie was the retired founder, CEO and board chairman of Bryn Awel Corp., an asphalt paving and highway construction firm and the parent company of smaller construction,...

When Johns Hopkins landed the first-ever oral commitment from a high school freshman lacrosse player last month, one thing was certain: It would not be the last. And now comes word of the second player who has made his college choice before setting foot on a high school field: long-stick midfielder/defenseman Jack Reilly of Conestoga High in Berwyn, Pa., who has committed to Virginia, according to multiple reports. Reilly joins Forry Smith , who orally committed to Hopkins in November . Smith attends Haverford School in Havertown, less than 10 miles east of Conestoga in southeastern Pennsylvania's lacrosse hotbed.

Growing up in and around New York City, where the weather can be as fickle as a Yankee fan, Justin Berk was bitten by the forecasting bug. After earning his degree in meteorology from Cornell University, Berk did a five-year stint at WBAL-TV before joining WMAR-TV in 2003. Last January - on Friday the 13th - contract talks bogged down and Berk and WMAR parted ways. The weatherman became his own boss at Just In Weather LLC. His first co-worker? Son Brendan, a first-grader. Their inaugural collaboration is Kid Weather App, which was designed at their home in the northern Baltimore suburbs.

First, the Army told Frank Olson's sons that the Fort Detrick scientist's death in a fall from a 13th-floor window of a New York hotel had been an accident. Then a presidential commission revealed that the CIA had given an unwitting Olson LSD as part of a mind-control experiment in remote Western Maryland only nine days before the fall, and concluded that his death had been a drug-related suicide. Now Eric and Nils Olson believe their father - a bioweapons expert who had told colleagues before he died that he wanted to quit the top-secret Special Operations Division - was murdered.