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(Updated at 2:49 p.m.) annmariebrok: My emotions are everywhere after being apart from Twitter for two hours &now to read all at once the updates on #hopkinsshooting. How sad. Juliemore: @MayorSRB, police, fire, emergency managment and @JohnsHopkins officials in private debriefing right now, spokesman says. #hopkinsshooting michaelmhughes: #hopkinsshooting confirmed murder/suicide by WBAL reporter on scene. MikeMSchwartz: Great coverage by @baltimoresun and @pinkgrammar on #hopkinsshooting YasminTadjdeh: All the twitter coverage on the Hopkins shooting is insane, I keep seeing conflicting tweets.

Trap and skeet are the most popular shotgun target games. Both are fun, reasonably inexpensive, easy to learn but endlessly challenging. Most importantly, they teach novices shooting basics and keep the pros in tune.I guarantee you that if you shoot skeet or trap regularly, your success this fall on doves, waterfowl or whatever winged game suits your fancy, will dazzle your friends.Trap is the oldest of all the shotgun target games. Trap targets simulate the flight of game birds flushed ahead of the shooter and, in fact, in the original version of the sport, live birds were released from holes in the ground covered by silk top hats.

BALTIMORE police say 19-year-old Perry Spain shot 10-year-old Tevin Montrel Davis last Monday night and sent a bullet through the boy's neck that discharged through his mouth. Tevin was rushed first to Bon Secours Hospital, where he was in critical condition immediately after the shooting. The most recent reports indicate he is in good condition at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and will recover - physically, at least - from the incident. Spain's attorney, Warren Brown - who, with Dontee Stokes and Edward Day as clients will probably be working 22-hour days for a good while - says Spain was not the shooter.

As a group of 20 people demonstrated Monday outside the Anne Arundel County courthouse in Annapolis supporting of the owners of a dog fatally shot Aug. 2 in a Severn park, county prosecutors said it may take another week or more for them to finish their investigation and decide whether to charge the shooter. The delay in reaching that decision is because of the complexity of the issues, said Kristin Fleckenstein, spokeswoman for the county state's attorney's office, who said prosecutors have no estimated date for the decision.

9/16 at 4:45 pm: justin_fenton: Records search indicates that a Paul Warren Pardus has a concealed carry permit from state of Virginia; trying to confirm w/st. police 9/16 at 4:39 pm: justin_fenton: Suspect now identified as Paul Warren Pardus, of Arlington, Va. Records confirm he is related to a Jean Davis 9/16 at 4:13 pm: justin_fenton: RT @APBenNuckols: AP confirms the name of doctor wounded in the #HopkinsShooting: Dr. David B. Cohen. More details coming soon: http://y ... 9/16 at 4:01 pm: justin_fenton: Police now saying shooter's name is NOT Warren Davis; that's the name the hospital knew him as but they are unsure true identity 9/16 at 3:51 pm: justin_fenton: Here's out story, which has and will be updated.

What's most obvious about Juan Dixon, watching him execute on the basketball court, are the all-around skills that have the Calvert Hall senior rated among the nation's best high school Division I prospects as a guard.He can solve opposing defenses with seemingly effortless moves toward the basket or with timely passes. His pull-up three-pointer off the dribble -- he's a 50-percent shooter from that range -- often finds nothing but net. He has poise at the line, where he's a near 90-percent shooter.

The defense yesterday attacked the idea that a 21-year-old defendant in a murder trial was the only likely suspect in a fatal Columbia hotel shooting. On Monday, the star prosecution witness said she saw Shamal Ira Chapman, the accused, pull out a gun moments before shots were fired. But Shem Lumsden, 18, testified for the defense yesterday that he did not see a gun when he observed about six people run out of the hotel room's bathroom, where the shooter apparently stood. He testified that the bathroom light was off and that a lamp and television were the only sources of light in the room.

Aleeyah Hopkins is more of an inside threat than she is an outside shooter. At least she was until Thursday night. Hopkins, a power forward, hit the winning shot on a three-pointer with one second left on the shot clock and three seconds left in the game to lift visiting South River over No. 10 Meade( 19-6), 47-44, in the Class 4A East semifinals. The Seahawks (18-6) will play at top-seeded North Point, which defeated Broadneck in the other semifinal, at 6 p.m. Saturday in the regional championship game.

The man charged with killing Baltimore police Officer Michael J. Cowdery Jr. in an ambush went on trial yesterday, with prosecutors portraying him as a "cold-blooded cop killer" and his lawyer contending that he was a victim of mistaken identity. Howard T. Whitworth is accused of gunning down Cowdery - who had been on the force for 4 1/2 years and was the son of a career Philadelphia police detective - while the officer and several of his colleagues were questioning two men outside a carryout restaurant in East Baltimore exactly one year ago. In his opening statement, Assistant State's Attorney Donald Giblin told the 12-member jury that on the night of the incident, Whitworth, 32, came out of nowhere and shot Cowdery, 31, in the leg. Everyone on the block scattered, Giblin said, but Whitworth walked over to Cowdery and shot him in the head as he lay disabled on the sidewalk.

A crime is committed with an assault rifle in Maryland at least every 48 hours, according to a report issued last fall by the group CeaseFire Maryland. A federal ban on assault weapons was approved in 1994 with the support of former presidents Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon, and others including former Sen. Barry Goldwater. This law was allowed to expire in September 2004. Gun manufacturers who sought to evade the law designed "copycat" weapons like those used by the D.C. snipers to terrorize residents a little more than four years ago. Now, Maryland has the opportunity to help protect its citizens and set an example for other state and federal officials by enacting the Maryland Assault Weapons Ban of 2007.