 Friday, Feb 8 A 56-year-old staff member was shot at Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore on Friday, according to district officials. The staff member, identified by district officials as Michael Marks, was serious but stable condition and undergoing treatment at Maryland Shock Trauma. The alleged shooter is a family member of a Douglass student. |   | |
| The Baltimore Museum of Art announced Friday that it is receiving a $3.5 million donation to endow the position of the organization’s chief curator from philanthropists Eddie and Sylvia Brown. |
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| The Baltimore Police Department has “no existing crime plan” and patrol shifts are so understaffed and officers so overwhelmed by the volume of 911 calls that they are instructed on a nightly basis to respond only to the most violent and pressing calls for service, according to the police union. |
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| Miles Taylor trains at NEVERsate Athletics, a Westminster-based strength and conditioning facility, and a recent video on his Instagram account showing Taylor deadlifting 200 pounds went viral, and was called an inspiration by professional athletes. |
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| A number of photos featuring people wearing blackface have surfaced in old University of Maryland, College Park yearbooks. University of Maryland President Wallace Loh called the images “profoundly hurtful and distressing.” |
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| Winter weather returned to Maryland on Friday, and could bring a pair of chances for ice and snow Sunday night into early next week. |
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| Maryland sophomore center Bruno Fernando was named one of 10 finalists for this year's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award, given for the past five years to the nation's best college center. |
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| A woman was arrested at the National Aquarium in the Inner Harbor and charged with murder, according to police. |
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| Jackie Robinson was revered for the abuse he took. Frank Robinson, if you read the memories that poured out Thursday upon the news of his death at 83, was respected for what he didn't take. |
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| Taneytown Councilman Bradley Wantz denounced the proposed National Civil War Memorial in the city, moments after Mayor James McCarron announced plans to assemble a committee to delve into the details. |
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