Images

The painting is hung prominently in the private office of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Titled "Wide Left," it shows an oversized football, a tiny goal post and the final score of 23-20, collectively representing the end of last year's AFC championship game won by the Patriots on former Ravens kicker Billy Cundiff's botched 32-yard field goal attempt in the waning seconds. The artist who created the colorful 4-foot-by-4-foot painting laughs at some of the irony of what transpired since he gave it to Kraft last summer.

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.

Baltimore police on Thursday released two grainy surveillance images of a group of people walking across Greenmount Avenue on the night of a triple shooting there that left a 16-year-old boy dead, calling them "persons of interest" and asking for the public's help in identifying them. Officers responded to the 2700 block of Greenmount about 8 p.m. Nov. 20 for a report of shooting and found three victims - two men and Daniel Pearson, 16. All were transported to local hospitals. While the two men, ages 33 and 20, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Pearson was pronounced dead.

Martin Scafidi's Winning Image left no doubt about her intentions when she shot to the lead in the $100,000 Willa on the Move Stakes on Saturday. Just 1 minute, 11seconds later, she proved she was the best of six fillies and mares in the Laurel Park feature. Jose Caraballo had the ride on the 5-year-old daughter of Southern Image and slowed her nearing the finish line to win by a length and a quarter over late-rallying long shot Withgreatpleasure. Made to Love Her took third. Multiple stakes winner Red's Round Table, who left the starting gate as the betting favorite, prompted the front-runner around midstretch before giving way and finishing last.

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.

From Liz Atwood: For years we've heard about the teen and tween girls who have a negative body image. Trying to emulate the unnaturally thin models they see on TV or in magazines, they can starve themselves to death. But a new study shows that not only girls, but also teen and tween boys, can harm their health when they become too worried about their bodies. The journal Pediatrics recently published a study that shows a significant number of boys are using protein shakes and steroids to build their muscles.

The suspect in the abduction of Violet R. Ripken from her Aberdeen home stopped at a Middle River Walmart the day after the July incident and may have had a brief encounter with the driver of a dark green minivan, Aberdeen Police Lt. Fred Budnick said Monday. Police are asking the driver of the van, which appears to be a Dodge Caravan with stickers on the driver and passenger side back windows, to contact them with any information. Budnick said the driver is not a suspect but perhaps a witness.

If Vietnam was the nation's first televised war, then the Civil War was the country's first photographed war, dramatically and vividly bringing into American homes the horrors and carnage their husbands, brothers and sons faced on the battlefield. In his recently published book, "Maryland's Civil War Photographs The Sesquicentennial Collection," Ross J. Kelbaugh, a Pikesville collector of vintage Maryland images, has assembled more than 400 photographs of a conflict that killed more than 600,000 Americans between 1861 and 1865.

Baltimore County police released images Monday of a forensic artist's reconstruction of a skull belonging to a man found in the Back River over a year ago. Police released the images to help identify the man but said the facial features might vary. The victim is a white male and 40 to 60 years old. The victim had no upper teeth and may have worn dentures, police said. The cause of death is undetermined but police said there were no signs of foul play. The body had been in the water for a significant period.

Once again Monday night, TBS came through with superior coverage of Baltimore Orioles playoff baseball. You can read more on what I have said about the broadcast team of Ernie Johnson, Cal Ripken and John Smoltz here . Ripken seemed a little less engaged Monday night, but maybe the grind is getting to him. Kidding -- he's the Iron Man, and all three were again fine in Game 2. Smoltz was better than fine. He was razor sharp in his analysis, as when he explained what happens when Orioles closer Jim Johnson overthrows.