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UPDATE: Check out a photo gallery of images from Joe Flacco's wedding here. The photos can also be found on the website of photographer Jason Prezant , but the site has been inaccessible due to the high interest in the Flacco pictures. . Joe Flacco's wedding photos have been posted out in the blogosphere, and simply put, they are amazing. The photos, which were published to the blog of wedding photographer Jason Prezant, shed a little light onto what the Ravens quarterback is like away from the television cameras and our microphones.

A Baltimore County police officer has been charged with malfeasance in office after detectives said he repeatedly engaged in and recorded sexual acts while on duty, including at least one video sent to a 16-year-old girl. Aaron Z. Pross, 29, of Newark, Del., who was assigned to the Pikesville Precinct, is being investigated by his agency and could face additional charges. Detectives said he took more than 120 images and 20 videos engaging in sexual acts with himself and an adult woman while he was working.

You need to use your imagination as much as your eyes when viewing the three-artist exhibit "Seeing Differently: Abstractions" at the Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House. Although these artists provide the occasional figurative reference, they mostly rely on colorful abstract forms to prompt you to see things in the mind's eye. Look quickly at Karen Carpenter 's acrylic painting "Flamenco" and you see a jagged-edged red form set against a yellow background. So far, so abstract.

Some dads play peek-a-boo with their kids. Some play catch. Dave Engledow stages photo shoots. Engledow, a Texas native now living in the Maryland suburbs of D.C., is the creative force behind a series of " World's Best Father " photos. The images depict Engledow with his daughter, 2-year-old Alice Bee, in a variety of hilarious - and unlikely - circumstances. In one New Year's-themed shot, Alice Bee and her dad pour champagne into side-by-side towers (Dave pours into champagne coupes; Alice Bee into plastic baby bottles)

The civil rights movement was full of dynamic and evocative images. Today, even many of us born after its iconic moments were captured on film can describe Martin Luther King Jr.'s outstretched arm pointing a sea of people toward a future decades beyond the short span of his life, or German shepherds in Birmingham ripping into black skin, as if we had watched these events live. But 50 years after the March on Washington, one local institution is helping audiences revisit this period in American history and examine details that were largely overlooked.

Seconds after a passenger stepped through an advanced-imaging machine at a BWI Marshall Airport security checkpoint, an image of a human body popped up on a video screen. It did not show the passenger's body as it appears under his clothing. No physical imperfections or private parts were in sight. And that is the point of the new technology demonstrated Friday at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The image, displayed where both the passenger and a security officer could see it, bore little resemblance to the graphic depictions of individuals that have aroused the anger of many fliers.

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The Walters Art Museum is donating more than 19,000 images of artworks from its collection to the organization running Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created and edited by users. The images will be available for Wikipedia articles in any language, and can be downloaded free of charge. A spokeswoman for the museum said Tuesday that the Walters is just one of several libraries, archives and museums participating in the collaborative effort to provide public access to their collections.

The alleged attacker in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy shortly after the Ravens parade on Tuesday was caught committing the violent act on CityWide surveillance cameras — and Baltimore Police are asking for the public's help identifying him. Police have said they believe the victim, Deontae Smith, was downtown for the parade celebrating the Baltimore Ravens' victory in the Super Bowl , and his family has said that was the case....

A life-size portrait of a stunning woman, an image of an elderly man and paintings of an Asian warrior in full regalia are among the varying stages of life portrayed in the gallery at Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis. The Maryland Society of Portrait Painters has filled the Willow Gallery this spring with more than 70 expressions that its members have captured in multiple media The show, which is free and open daily during park hours, highlights the work of the society's members, some still honing their art and others well established.

The weapon used to kill a University of Maryland Eastern Shore student in February has a "unique orange and black camouflage handle" that investigators hope will "prompt the memory of someone who may have seen the knife before," Maryland State Police said Wednesday. Investigators released an image of the weapon, which has a three-and-a-half-inch serrated silver blade, for the first time at a news conference on the university campus Wednesday, and urged the public to contact them if they recognize it. They hope tips about the knife will help them identify three suspects they believe were involved in the killing of Edmond St. Clair, a 21-year-old junior biology major from Severn who graduated from Laurel High School in 2010.

The Republican Party can spend as much money as it wants trying to convince people that it is inclusive, but it will not resonate with anyone unless it deals with its hypocritical policy positions ("The GOP's 'stuffy old men' problem," March 20). The GOP claims to promote personal freedom, but it wants to legislate who can marry and control the most intimate health care decisions people make, such as abortion and end-of-life care. The GOP claims to be for deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility but its office-holders pack every piece of legislation with as much local pork as possible, including "bridges to nowhere" and FAA air traffic controllers for airports that serve virtually no one. The party says it wants smaller government, but then it creates legislation that results in the largest growth in the federal bureaucracy the nation has ever seen, including Ronald Reagan's expansion of Medicaid and George W. Bush's huge expansion of the military as a result of the war in Iraq.

No photos, recordings or videos were found on any computers "associated with the police officer" who is under investigation by Anne Arundel County police in the placement of what appeared to be a camera in a boys' bathroom at Glen Burnie High School, county police said Friday. Lt. T.J. Smith declined to say how many computers were seized in the investigation, whose computers they were, or where the search - or searches - took place. "No images of any person were captured," on the computers or from the item found Wednesday by a student in the boys bathroom in the media building of the high school, Smith said.

Baltimore police said Friday that patient pictures taken by Johns Hopkins gynecologist Dr. Nikita Levy could contain child pornography, and they've turned the evidence over to the FBI for analysis. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi declined to elaborate but said the files reviewed so far contained pictures of patients photographed during medical examinations and could include images of juveniles - which he characterized as a legitimate possibility given the age of some of Levy's patients.

Nearly 100 women, fearing that a Johns Hopkins gynecologist secretly videotaped and photographed them, contacted police Tuesday, and some potential victims reached out to private attorneys contemplating legal action. Police revealed Tuesday that at least some of the images were captured with a camera hidden in the top of a pen, and authorities were exploring whether the recordings had been distributed. The doctor, Nikita A. Levy, was found dead of an apparent suicide Monday. Police are treating the case as an open criminal investigation, and the Johns Hopkins board of trustees has opened a separate inquiry.

The alleged attacker in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy shortly after the Ravens parade on Tuesday was caught committing the violent act on CityWide surveillance cameras — and Baltimore Police are asking for the public's help identifying him. Police have said they believe the victim, Deontae Smith, was downtown for the parade celebrating the Baltimore Ravens' victory in the Super Bowl , and his family has said that was the case....

The first images of Earth as seen from space, appearing as a swirly blue marble, were groundbreaking. Now NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have published photos of Earth by night using infrared imaging technology via satellite. The images show what is now a fairly familiar view of clusters of city lights, but what is different is it shows those twinkling lights from afar across the entire globe. You can see the darkened planet at various vantage points, as well as in an animated video, at NASA's Earth Observatory website . You can also view them in a gallery in the Sun's Darkroom photo blog . They were gathered through a partnership between NASA and NOAA.

More than 10,000 items in the Walters Art Museum — about a third of the total collection — can now be viewed and downloaded online for free, without copyright restrictions. The museum's collection is "basically public domain," said Dylan Kinnett, manager of web and social media at the Walters. "Something like this would be less likely at a museum with contemporary art, where the artist is still alive or the estate is still active. " The free online accessibility, which complements the Walters' free admission policy, allows viewers to see works spanning several eras, from ancient Egypt and the Americas to 18th- and 19th-century Europe.

Minutes after the Baltimore Ravens beat the New England Patriots to advance to the Super Bowl, Seth Meyers, the head writer for “Saturday Night Live,” tweeted: “Baltimore vs. San Francisco! Brother vs. Brother! The Wire vs. Full House!” The message linking Baltimore, “The Wire” and the Ravens resonated nationally with more than 3,000 retweets. Terrell Suggs repeated the connection while speaking at Super Bowl Media Day in New Orleans. Great sports franchises do reflect their communities - or, maybe, they shape the perception of their communities among the millions who watch them on TV in championship games.

The city of Baltimore could not be more excited (well, I guess they haven't turned the harbor purple ... yet) for Sunday's Super Bowl which, pits the Ravens against the San Francisco 49ers. Madison Avenue execs are not so thrilled. According to Bob Dorfman, a sports marketing expert at San Franciscco's Baker Street Advertising, the game will be short on endorsement talent. Dorfman sees only two players who could use the game to catapult toward major deals: Niners quarterback Colin Kaepernick and Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis.