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Baltimore police are investigating a double shooting at 11:33 p.m. Tuesday in the Beechfield neighborhood. Two men, ages 24 and 25, were shot in the 600 block of Brisbane Road, authorities said. The 24-year-old man is in critical but stable condition at a nearby hospital. The 25-year-old man is in serious but stable condition at a second nearby hospital. ywenger@baltsun.com Twitter.com/yvonnewenger

Detectives are investigating an overnight shooting in the 2500 block of Edgecombe Circle in the Parklane neighborhood of Baltimore, police said. An adult male was shot in the legs, according to authorities, and that he was in stable condition. ywenger@baltsun.com

Back in the 1990s, when I was still a high school teacher, our faculty spent a day at Shepherd Pratt - an appropriate venue as it turned out - listening to two educators from theWashington, D.C., public schools telling us how to teach black students. The irony of being lectured on how to educate black students by people from the nation's worst school system was not lost on most of us. Now it's 2012 and the circle is completed. The state of Maryland has a black state school superintendent, Lillian Lowery, and a 12-member state Department of Education that includes not a single white male.

With books in hand, hundreds of prominent black male city leaders and community members will descend on classrooms around the city Monday to read to students, part of an initiative to promote literacy and positive male influences in the lives of city youth. The effort called the "Michael Penny Carter Men Reading in Baltimore City Schools Initiative," was introduced in the city by Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, president of the local the National Action Network, last fall. The program was inspired by a similar one in Chicago, and has drawn the support of local political, education, and religious leaders across the city.

Over the span of two hours late Monday, Baltimore police investigated three shootings, according to the department's Twitter account: •Police reported about 9:30 p.m. that a male was shot at the intersection of East Preston and North Aisquith streets in Oliver. •Another shooting was reported about 10 p.m.: a male in the 4800 block of Liberty Heights Avenue in Gwynn Oak. •About 11:40 p.m., police reported that a man was shot in the 1600 block of Delano Court in Sandtown-Winchester.

A shooting death in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood overnight and an infant death have been added to the city homicide count, according to police.  The shooting in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood occurred in the 6200 block of Pioneer Drive. Police initially said via their Twitter account that the victim was a juvenile, but this morning said his name and age are unknown and that investigators now believe he may be an adult.  The infant who was killed was identified as Aaron Evans, who was just five months old. Police said the incident dates to January 30, when officers were called to the 3000 block of Baker St. in the Rosemont neighborhood for a non-breathing infant.

Baltimore homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man who was shot multiple times early Saturday in the 1000 block of E. Hoffman Street. The shooting occurred around 1 a.m. Police found the man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds when they arrived on the scene and transported him to an area hospital, where he died. Anyone with information is urged to contact detectives at 410-396-2100.

A man will lead Notre Dame of Maryland University for the first time in its 116-year history, after the board of trustees announced Thursday its unanimous choice of James Conneely as the institution's next president. "It's a boy!" said board chairwoman Patricia J. Mitchell, drawing giggles from a crowd of students, professors and alumni who had gathered on campus to hear the decision. Mitchell, a Notre Dame graduate, said she went into the search assuming that the next president would be a woman.

Using music, poetry, dance and art, the Black Male Identity Project has been striving for the past year to overturn negative stereotypes of African-American men. "We know that Baltimore City has a lot of problems, but we wanted to celebrate the role of artists, of storytellers in producing narratives that can help us discover solutions," said Fanon Hill, a musician and co-director of the project. On Sunday, the project concluded at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, but organizers say the program's positive message will carry on here and elsewhere.

In the most deadly year for Maryland boaters since 1992, Kevin Gladhill knows how close he and his fishing buddies came to being statistics on a blustery day last February. "The probability of survival that day was between slim and none. We got slim," says the Department of Defense police officer from Washington County. "For some reason, we were spared. " Twenty-five people, ranging in age from 14 to 81, have been killed this year in boating accidents. The victims were sailors and watermen, sportsmen and pleasure boaters.