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A cabal of corrupt corrections officers and members of the Black Guerrilla Family gang enjoyed nearly free rein inside the Baltimore City Detention Center, federal authorities allege, smuggling drugs and cellphones into the jail and having sexual relationships that left four guards pregnant. An indictment unsealed Tuesday names 25 people - including 13 women working as corrections officers - who face racketeering and drug charges. Twenty of the accused also face money-laundering charges.

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 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.

The new Main Street entrance to the Bel Air Municipal Parking Garage has opened. The entrance, which is off of Burns Alley between Courtland Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, was put in to work in conjunction with the new Main Street surface lot the town opened in July on the site of the former BB&T building. Traffic that enters the Main Street lot has the option of using one of the metered spaces on the lot or, if no spaces are available or the weather is rainy or snowy, a motorist can simply drive through the surface lot, cross Burns Alley and enter the parking garage.

The Baltimore Museum of Art would add more than 100,000 square feet of space over the next 20 years under a comprehensive expansion plan that would increase gallery and storage areas, reopen the historic main entrance and cover the open-air Schaefer Court with a glass roof. The plan calls for the museum to reinstall its collections and expand its library, gift shop, restaurant, auditorium and study facilities. It would gain 50 parking spaces in an underground garage that the Johns Hopkins University plans to build next door, and create a new north entrance to link the museum and the university.

PATRICK JOSEPH Mc CAFFREY, age 74, of Baltimore, MD, died on Saturday, March 11, 2006. The memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 20, 3:00 P.M. at Druid Hill Park, Latrobe Pavilion (first pavilion on bank of the reservoir; through main entrance to the right). A gathering will follow at Dougherty's Pub, 223 West Chase Street, 4:00 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Amnesty International.

Midshipmen at the Naval Academy paint the campus' statue of Tecumseh before the annual Army-Navy game Saturday. Above, Brittany Young, 18, applies paint from her perch on scaffolding. Below, midshipmen work to transform the statue into the "Black Knight" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The statue was erected in 1930 and is mounted on a marble pedestal adorned with the academy seal. It stands near the main entrance of Bancroft Hall, the midshipmen's dormitory, and is painted for Parents Weekend, homecoming, Army-Navy contests and Commissioning Week.

There is a food truck gathering today 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The event is being held in conjunction with the opening day of the University Farmers' Market. Expected to attend are Silver Platter, Kooper's Chowhound, Iced Gems Creations, Souper Freaks, Gypsy Queen, Chicken 'n' Waffle and Miss Shirley's. The trucks will circle near the plaza in front of 22 South Greene St. The University Farmers' Market is held every Tuesday from 10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m., from May to November in University Park Plaza, across from the Medical Center's main entrance.

For generations, patients entering Johns Hopkins Hospital walked past an oil painting of the founder and a marble statue of Jesus Christ. In the building that Hopkins opened this spring, they see blue and green rhinos, a flying ostrich and a purple cow jumping over 28 moons. The playful sculptures help differentiate the new building from its 19th-century predecessor, which seems hopelessly stuffy by comparison. But there's much more to the new Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore's first $1 billion building — than its sculptural menagerie.

The main entrance of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory near Columbia is undergoing a $3.5 million renovation and expansion.The work will add about 15,300 square feet to the front of the building that contains the laboratory's main entrance and lobby, conference, administrative and dining areas.The expanded front entrance and reception areas will feature double entry doors as part of a new one-story reflective tinted glass and curtain-type wall. Another entry way, for access to conference areas, will be added west of the main entrance.

For generations, patients entering Johns Hopkins Hospital walked past an oil painting of the founder and a marble statue of Jesus Christ. In the building that Hopkins opened this spring, they see blue and green rhinos, a flying ostrich and a purple cow jumping over 28 moons. The playful sculptures help differentiate the new building from its 19th-century predecessor, which seems hopelessly stuffy by comparison. But there's much more to the new Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore's first $1 billion building — than its sculptural menagerie.

There is a food truck gathering today 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The event is being held in conjunction with the opening day of the University Farmers' Market. Expected to attend are Silver Platter, Kooper's Chowhound, Iced Gems Creations, Souper Freaks, Gypsy Queen, Chicken 'n' Waffle and Miss Shirley's. The trucks will circle near the plaza in front of 22 South Greene St. The University Farmers' Market is held every Tuesday from 10:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m., from May to November in University Park Plaza, across from the Medical Center's main entrance.

One of the most congested corridors in Annapolis, the Naval Academy's front entrance, just got a major facelift that preservationists say strikes the right balance for a federal installation and national historic site. Until this week, pedestrians and drivers often created a bottleneck at the intersection of King George and Randall streets just a few blocks from City Dock, and there was little in the way of welcome or ornament for the 2.2 million visitors the academy gets annually. Now, pedestrians can enter from City Dock near Prince George and Craig streets, or just a stone's throw from the old entrance up Randall Street, into a courtyard that has been landscaped and paved with brick.

PATRICK JOSEPH Mc CAFFREY, age 74, of Baltimore, MD, died on Saturday, March 11, 2006. The memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 20, 3:00 P.M. at Druid Hill Park, Latrobe Pavilion (first pavilion on bank of the reservoir; through main entrance to the right). A gathering will follow at Dougherty's Pub, 223 West Chase Street, 4:00 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Amnesty International.

Midshipmen at the Naval Academy paint the campus' statue of Tecumseh before the annual Army-Navy game Saturday. Above, Brittany Young, 18, applies paint from her perch on scaffolding. Below, midshipmen work to transform the statue into the "Black Knight" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The statue was erected in 1930 and is mounted on a marble pedestal adorned with the academy seal. It stands near the main entrance of Bancroft Hall, the midshipmen's dormitory, and is painted for Parents Weekend, homecoming, Army-Navy contests and Commissioning Week.

The Baltimore Museum of Art would add more than 100,000 square feet of space over the next 20 years under a comprehensive expansion plan that would increase gallery and storage areas, reopen the historic main entrance and cover the open-air Schaefer Court with a glass roof. The plan calls for the museum to reinstall its collections and expand its library, gift shop, restaurant, auditorium and study facilities. It would gain 50 parking spaces in an underground garage that the Johns Hopkins University plans to build next door, and create a new north entrance to link the museum and the university.

Students returned to Roland Park Country School this week to find all the windows in the main entrance boarded up and dust billowing from a giant ditch in the back field.Amid the unexpected construction, they also discovered its rewards -- new locker rooms, a fitness center and the promise of modern science labs by winter.The private, all-girls academy is in the midst of a $6 million expansion and renovation to cope with a modest enrollment boom.At the same time, the 92-year-old school is broadening its fine arts curriculum.

Despite three months of outraged criticism, the colorful new front at the main entrance of Carrolltown Center (formerly Carrolltowne Mall) in Eldersburg is gaining popularity."

A 22-sided "roundhouse" still serves as the centerpiece of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum. Its two-tier roof with bridge-like trusses has been faithfully reproduced, and its 60-foot-wide turntable has been rebuilt. Visitors nonetheless will discover a dramatically different place when the West Baltimore museum reopens to the public today - 21 months after it was shut down by a record snowstorm that caused much of its roof to collapse on prized locomotives and railcars below. With help from insurance payments and generous donors, museum directors launched an ambitious effort to rebuild the roundhouse and repair the collection - a project expected to cost $30 million and take years to complete.

A Baltimore man accused of stabbing a Howard Community College security guard as she reported to work in late March was indicted yesterday on attempted first-degree murder and felony assault charges. A Howard County grand jury returned the two-count indictment against Gilbert Lee Redmond Jr., 29, of Gwynn Oak in the assault March 29 of the 25-year-old woman. Police have said she was his former girlfriend. The attack took place less than two weeks after the woman alleged in court papers that Redmond raped her at knifepoint in Baltimore and threatened to kill her. The case is pending in Baltimore Circuit Court.