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A Gywnns Falls Elementary School staff member was assaulted as she entered the building early Tuesday, according to a Baltimore City public schools spokeswoman. The staff member was assaulted by an unknown assailant at 6 a.m. at the school's main entrance. The attacker left the scene, and the staff member was taken to the hospital. Spokeswoman Molly Rath said she could not release any information regarding the staff member's occupation, her injuries or what hospital she was transported to. No students or other staff members were present for the assault, Rath said, and parents were notified about the incident via a phone call and letter.

A state prison inmate was in fair condition at a Baltimore hospital yesterday after being stabbed at the Central Laundry Facility at Springfield Hospital Center in Sykesville, state police said.Charles A. Royster, 29, was found with two knife wounds about 8: 15 a.m. in a bathroom, police said. He was taken by state police MedEvac helicopter to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was evaluated and transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital, a spokeswoman at the trauma center said.Royster's condition was stable, a hospital spokeswoman said yesterday evening.

A 43-year-old Glen Burnie woman was killed and six other people were injured late Friday, when her car was struck head-on in Pasadena, Anne Arundel County police reported.Darla Lee Rodey of the 1000 block of Olen Court was traveling west on Mountain Road at Outing Avenue about 11 p.m. with her 16-year-old daughter and four of her daughter's friends in a 1992 Nissan sedan. A 1996 GMC Suburban driven by Mhamed Bouadjemi, 46, of the 600 block of Powhatan Beach Road in Pasadena crossed the center line and struck Rodey's car before flipping over, police said.

LAUREL -- Two jockeys wre injured during a spill yesterday at Laurel Race Course.Mark Johnston and Andrea Seefeldt were taken to their saddles during the third race.Johnston, who suffered a broken nose and abrasions, was released later. Seefeldt, who has a compound fracture of the collarbone, was being kept for treatment, a hospital spokeswoman said.The collision started when two horses clipped heels, a track spokeswoman said. She said the horses were unhurt and finshed the race riderless.

MIAMI (AP) -- Sandy Amoros, hero of the Brooklyn Dodgers 1955 World Series victory, remained hospitalized in critical condition with pneumonia, a hospital spokeswoman said today.Amoros had been listed in serious condition Wednesday and was thought to be improving until early yesterday.The Brooklyn Sports Foundation had planned to honor the 62-year-old Amoros in New York this weekend for his seventh-game catch that saved the 1955 Series for the Dodgers against the New York Yankees.

Twelve students and a teacher from Great Mills High School in Leonardtown were injured yesterday when a school bus overturned in a ditch about 9 a.m. on southbound Route 5 near Scotland, the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Department reported.Ten students and a teacher suffered minor injuries and were treated at St. Mary's Hospital in Leonardtown and released, said a hospital spokeswoman.Two female students were taken by helicopter to Childrens Hospital in Washington, where one was treated and released and the other admitted in stable condition, said a hospital spokesman.

A Hampstead woman was injured Sunday when she fell from a minivan she was backing up and became trapped under the left front wheel, state police said. Virginia Arletta Stoner, 79, of the 2900 block of Coon Club Road was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where she was in serious but stable condition, a hospital spokeswoman said yesterday. According to state police, Stoner was backing up in a 1994 Dodge Caravan about 5 a.m. She opened the door and was leaning out to see where she was going when she fell out of the vehicle.

Seventeen churchgoers were taken to a hospital yesterday for suspected carbon-monoxide poisoning, according to Calvert County firefighters. A child suffered a seizure at Waters Memorial United Methodist Church in the 5400 block of Mackall Road in Mutual about 9:40 a.m., according to firefighters. Shortly afterward, others began complaining of nausea and headaches. Twelve adults and five children were taken to Calvert Memorial Hospital for testing. All are expected to recover, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

A Westminster man suffered second-degree burns to about 25 percent of his body while attempting to extinguish a cooking-related fire in his apartment kitchen late Sunday, authorities said. Eric D. Garrison of the 200 block of E. Green St. was in serious condition yesterday at Johns Hopkins Bayview Burn Center in Baltimore, a hospital spokeswoman said. The fire broke out shortly before midnight. It was reported by neighbors who heard Garrison's smoke detector, according to the state fire marshal's office.

Mohamed Al Fayed, the father of Dodi Fayed who was killed with Princess Diana in an automobile crash in Paris in 1997, is being treated for an unspecified illness at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said early today."