Overnight

Baltimore area residents looking to commute to work this morning will find several lanes on the major highways open as plow trucks worked overnight to clear paths, according to city and state transportation officials. Sections of the Baltimore Beltway, Interstate 83 and Interstate 95 were cleared down to the pavement, and several downtown arteries like Charles, Calvert, St. Paul, Pratt and Lombard streets were plowed low enough for traffic to pass. But transportation officials warned that Maryland roads will continue to be tough to navigate throughout the day. Baltimore officials at 5 a.m. began allowing non-emergency vehicles to travel city roads, although parking restrictions remain in place along snow emergency routes.

The audience for NBC's coverage of the Preakness was up by as much as 24 percent during the afternoon, according to overnight Nielsen data provided by the network. The audience for the block of time that includes the race (5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. ET) was 9% up from 2012 with a 6.0 ratings versus 5.5 last year. Pre-race on NBC (5 p.m.-5:45 p.m. ET) was up 24% from 2012. That's a 3.6 ratings versus 2.9, and that's the largest audience since 2009. Not surpisingly, Baltimore was the top market with the telecast drawing a 15.7 rating and a 32 share.

Baltimore City police are investigating an overnight shooting that left a man dead in the city's Park Circle neighborhood Police arrived on the 3800 block of Park Heights Avenue around midnight and found an unidentified man lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the head, according to Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. Homicide detectives were called to the scene, he said, and the man was transported to Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Guglielmi said police could offer no information about a suspect or a motive in the killing.

Police are investigating an overnight shooting that left one man wounded, while detectives continue to search for suspects in the separate beating of a man Thursday evening that left him in critical condition. Police responded to Harbor Hospital at 12:50 a.m. after a gunshot victim had walked in for treatment. The man told investigators he had pulled into a lot between the 2400 block of Maisel Court and the 2400 block of Wilgrey Court in the Westport neighborhood to say hello to a friend of his cousin when an unknown suspect shot at him numerous times.

Police in Baltimore County are investigating a quadruple stabbing overnight that officers believe may have involved road rage. Cpl. John Wachter, a spokesman for the county police department, said four people were injured at about 2 a.m. in a stabbing incident near the Eastpoint Mall that may have been sparked by a confrontation in traffic. One person was taken to Franklin Square Hospital Center for treatment and another to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Wachter said, but he could provide no details on the status of the other two people.

FROM its berth in the Inner Harbor, the passenger steame City of Norfolk departed every summer evening at 6:30 p.m.It was a bustling scene: milling crowds, honking trucks, clanging streetcars, shouting stevedores.Off for a two-day pleasure cruise aboard the stately, all-white, three-decker ship were about 80 people. Some were business people, but most were families, and there was a smattering of honeymooners.By 5:30 the next morning the City of Norfolk would be about 200 miles down the Chesapeake Bay, docking at Old Point Comfort, Va. An hour later, the passengers would step off the gangway for a day's leisure in Norfolk.

An 87-year-old woman being transported from a West Baltimore adult day-care center Monday was left overnight in a van - apparently overlooked by the driver. "It's absolutely outrageous," city Health Commissioner Dr. Peter L. Beilenson said last night. "When you're driving a van for the elderly or disabled, you count how many you take in and how many get off. It's not rocket science." According to Beilenson, the driver left Raven's Medical Adult Day Care Center at 5:30 p.m. with several elderly passengers - including the woman, who was believed to have fallen asleep in the back.

Baltimore police commanders have postponed plans for an $11,000 overnight retreat, saying the event would be a distraction as the department grapples with crime and budget woes. Using money seized from suspected criminals, the department had planned an overnight training retreat at Leakin Park's Outward Bound center. According to documents filed with the Board of Estimates, nearly 50 commanders would have participated in a program that included "use of low ropes activities, a combination of problem-solving games, and elements of the high ropes course."

Question: What's green at the anchor desk, but deep in the field?Answer: "World News Now," the overnight news service, which ABC News premiered early yesterday morning.The program, which airs from 3:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. daily on WJZ-TV (Channel 13), is clearly superior to the on-the-cheap overnight news services offered by CBS and NBC. But, if you have cable, it is not yet enough to leave CNN or even CNN Headline News for.Like the overnight newscasts on CBS and NBC, "World News Now" is in part an attempt to keep network affiliates from establishing additional ties with CNN, the all-news cable channel.

Starting April 10, Baltimore's 311 Call Center will take only urgent requests for service between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., saving the city $500,000, officials announced Thursday. Urgent requests such as animal control, water service interruptions, water main breaks, overflowing sewers or flooding basements, traffic signal outages or debris in roadways will be directly routed through a telephone tree to radio dispatchers for appropriate departments, such as Public Works or Transportation. Shrinking the hours eliminates 11 positions, but no one is expected to lose their jobs because operators are expected to transfer to other openings.

A 17-year-old boy was shot in the back of the head inside a home in the Gwynn Oak area of Northwest Baltimore early on Wednesday morning, according to Baltimore Police. The teen, who has not been identified, was listed in critical condition at an area hospital on Wednesday, said Detective Angela Carter Watson, a police spokeswoman. Officers responded to a report of gunfire in the 4000 block of Eldorado Avenue, on the border between the city's Howard Park and Dorchester neighborhoods, just after midnight and located the injured teen inside a home.

Bundle up if you have early morning activities planned Sunday. The National Weather service has issued a freeze warning from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sunday for Frederick, Carroll, Harford, Northern Baltlimore County and Howard. The areas, including Columbia and Westminster, could see temperatures in the low 30s, which has the potential to damage sensitive plants and crops.

Baltimore detectives have taken two men into custody they suspect were involved in a double shooting Monday night that left one man dead, police said Tuesday. The men, whom police did not name, are being held in connection with the death of a 34-year-old man who was shot in a house in the 1900 block of Bentalou St. in West Baltimore. An 11-year-old boy who was also shot is expected to survive, police said. The boy, who suffered a wound in the lower half of his body, ran two blocks to summon officers who were on foot patrol nearby.

Baltimore Police are investigating a double homicide late Sunday and two other shootings that occurred in the predawn hours. Responding to calls of gunfire at about 10:50 p.m., Northeast District officers found an unresponsive man lying in the street in the 1700 block of Montpelier St. suffering from gunshot wounds. Up the block, police found a car with the front passenger door open and a woman inside, who had also been shot and was unresponsive. Both victims were transported to Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Two separate accidents in Anne Arundel County early Saturday morning sent two people to an area hospital with serious injuries, the Anne Arundel County Police Department said.  About 1:20 a.m. Saturday, a Lexus sedan stuck a Mercedes Benz on the northbound lanes of Ritchie Highway in Severna Park. The Lexus rolled over on its side and a passenger, Casey Brooke Barber, 22, of Pasadena, was thrown from the vehicle. Barber was not wearing a seat belt, police said. She was transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center where she was being treated for life-threatening injuries.  The Anne Arundel County Police Department said that speed, alcohol usage and failure to obey a traffic control device may have contributed to the crash.

A man was shot and killed overnight in the unit block of N. Wheeler Ave. in Southwest Baltimore, police said Sunday morning. Police said that at approximately 1 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to the scene for a report of a shooting. When they arrived, they found 27-year old Christopher Samuels suffering from a gunshot wound to his head. Police said he was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma, where he was pronounced dead at 1:26 a.m. The killing makes seven deaths in a little over seven days in the city.

The number of tourists visiting Baltimore declined last year, but the ones who came stayed longer and were looser with their cash.According to a survey commissioned by the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association, the number of people making day trips to the city declined 10 percent to 7.8 million, while the number of overnight visitors rose 11 percent to 5.2 million.Leisure travelers who stayed in Baltimore at least one night spent a total of $1.2 billion, up from $933 million in 1997.

Police logPasadena: Someone broke into the Kurtz Pleasure Beach club overnight Saturday and stole two cases of beer, valued at $45.Pub Date: 1/28/97

Police are investigating a triple shooting that happened in northwest Baltimore early Saturday morning, and another incident that took place Friday evening. At 3:35 a.m. officers responded to a shooting in the 3400 block of Reisterstown Road and found three men suffering gun shot wounds, police said. One of them, who has not yet been identified, died from his injuries, according to police. The two other men are being treated at area hospitals. A 26-year-old man was also fatally shot at Fayette and Bentalou Streets, police said, but no other details were immediately available.

Hours after getting a 911 call reporting gunshots, police say, they found a man fatally shot in Northeast Baltimore's Lauraville neighborhood Tuesday morning. The call notifying police of gunshots came in about 2:30 a.m. near the 4900 block of Morello Road, police said. A man whom police have not yet identified was found later about three blocks away, in the 2600 block of Southern Avenue. He was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Hospital about 8:30 a.m., police said. Another man was shot in the face in Northwest Baltimore on Monday night and drove himself to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.