Maryland Gov. Matin O'Malley chats with Nolawit Weldetsadik, 8, and her mother, Aster, at the voting line outside the Silver Spring Civic Building on Tuesday morning (Tom Howell Jr./The Washington Times)
Police cordon off an area around the D.C. offices of the Family Research Council, where a security guard was shot Wednesday (Tom Howell Jr./The Washington Times)