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James Scales (above left) and William Tasker are all smiles after their wedding ceremony at Baltimore City Hall in Baltimore, just minutes after midnight when the unions became legal in Maryland. Shehan Welihinda and Ryan Wilson (left) simultaneously place wedding rings on each others’s fingers during their ceremony, also at City Hall. Same-sex couples now can marry in Maryland after the legislature and a voter referendum made them legal. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012 file photo, a school bus rolls toward a memorial in Newtown, Conn., for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Nearly three weeks after the shooting rampage, classes are starting Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 for the Sandy Hook students at a repurposed school in the neighboring town of Monroe, where the students' desks have been taken along with backpacks and other belongings that were left behind in the chaos following the shooting on Dec. 14. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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Egyptian TV host Bassem Youssef addresses attendees at a gala dinner party in Cairo on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012. Egyptian prosecutors on Tuesday launched an investigation against Mr. Youssef, a popular television satirist, for allegedly insulting the president in the latest case raised by Islamist lawyers against outspoken media personalities. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar)
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Shehan Welihinda (left) and Ryan Wilson react after their marriage at City Hall in Baltimore on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. Same-sex couples in Maryland are now legally permitted to marry under a new law that went into effect after midnight on Tuesday. Maryland is the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line to approve same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Darcia Anthony (left) and Danielle Williams hug after their wedding ceremony at City Hall in Baltimore on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. Same-sex couples in Maryland are now legally permitted to marry under a new law that went into effect after midnight on Tuesday. Maryland is the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line to approve same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Operation Welcome Home Maryland volunteers, including 13-year-old Francis [cq] Morena, Miss Junior Teen Delmarva, from Rockville, Md., right, clap as troops come home at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore, Md. on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. The welcome operation has greeted more than 800 flights and more than 180,000 soldiers home since its inception in March 2007. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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James Scales (left) and William Tasker celebrate their wedding at City Hall in Baltimore on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. Same-sex couples in Maryland now are permitted to marry under a new law that went into effect after midnight on Tuesday. Maryland is the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line to approve same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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"Freedom Is not Free," the Defense Department's entry in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif., on New Year's Day, is depicted in an artist's rendering. (Image courtesy of Phoenix Decorating Co.)
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Operation Welcome Home Maryland volunteers, including 13-year-old Francis [cq] Morena, Miss Junior Teen Delmarva, from Rockville, Md., right, clap as troops come home at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore, Md. on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. The welcome operation has greeted more than 800 flights and more than 180,000 soldiers home since its inception in March 2007. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Longtime Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse and will serve 30 to 60 years in prison. (Associated Press)
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Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of multiple sexual assaults. (Associated Press)
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John Smith (right), a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, joins others in expressing support for the Kemper County coal plant. They earlier opposed the plant because contractors for Atlanta-based Southern Co. were excluding union members. (Associated Press)
