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The day after Gov. Martin O'Malley's 18-year-old daughter was briefly hospitalized, apparently after drinking alcohol, the first lady called the incident a "teachable moment." "We … encourage all parents and teenagers to be safe this graduation season," Katie Curran O'Malley said in a statement Friday. Tara O'Malley, the second-eldest of the governor's four children, graduated Wednesday from Notre Dame Preparatory School and had been at a celebration Thursday. A Baltimore police officer found her "apparently unconscious" with a friend at the Inner Harbor about 7:30 p.m. She was treated at Harbor Hospital and released that night.

Despite decades of regulation, legislation and effort, obstacles continue to hinder equal employment opportunities for African-Americans in the federal workplace, a federal commission has reported. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said "unconscious biases" about African-Americans, a lack of adequate mentoring opportunities and insufficient training assignments all affect hiring or advancement in government jobs. The failure of agencies to follow and effectively enforce equal employment opportunity law also has an effect, the commission said in the report published this month.

Minneapolis. -- Halfway through the conference I began t wonder what I would feel if I had been Ryan Amerman's mother. If my unconscious child had been picked up every day for eight years and taken to a school for the mentally disabled.If my child had been in a persistent vegetative state, wholly unable to experience life, and yet had been taken on field trips, had come home with a Mother's Day card or with a report that he had bowled 103. If I had been told repeatedly that this child was ''improving.

A 36-year-old man was ordered held without bail Tuesday after being arrested and charged with killing his grandmother inside her Northwest Baltimore home, according to city police and court records. Demond Tyler was charged with first- and second-degree murder and assault in the death of Shirley Tyler, 67, who was found by a family member Saturday morning unconscious inside her home in the 3200 block of Spaulding Ave. in Central Park Heights. Her death had not been previously reported because at the time it was listed as a suspicious death.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- As the final seconds of the third quarter ticked down yesterday at the Forum, Lakers guard Magic Johnson found himself backpedaling in an attempt to guard against a Chicago fastbreak.Then things started going wrong. Johnson backed into teammate Terry Teagle and tripped. As Johnson fell to the floor, he was accidentally kicked in the side of the head by Horace Grant, the 6-foot-10 Chicago forward, who was taking the ball, unsuccessfully, to the hoop. Finally, Johnson's head banged the floor.

OVER THE YEARS I have known any number of people who have reminded me of Laura in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie," currently at Baltimore's Center stage.Williams' play takes its title from the sparkling collection of miniature glass animals that is Laura's most precious possession. In Laura's mind, the tiny crystal beasts represent all that is lacking in her dreary life -- beauty, vitality, freedom to explore the possibilities of love.In a deeper sense, the collection is also a metaphor for Laura's own mental and physical fragility, as well as that of her family.

Baltimore County police are investigating a homicide in Cockeysville that took place early Wednesday. An unidentified man was killed in the 9800 block of Williamson Lane, off Cockeysville Road, police said. Police received a call for service at about 4 a.m. for a man lying unconscious outside his home. The man had sustained several blows to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a police spokesman. Investigators are waiting the results of an autopsy. Police say the man was originally from Mexico and had no local family.

Richard W. Spicknall II, a Howard County man serving life in prison for the murders of his two children, was in a coma at a Laurel hospital last night after being found unconscious in his cell at a maximum-security prison in Jessup, authorities said. The 29-year-old inmate was on life-support yesterday at Laurel Regional Hospital, as investigators from the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services tried to determine the cause of his condition, department spokesman Leonard A. Sipes Jr. said.

An Annapolis police officer helping to keep out traffic as crews cleaned up a fallen tree and power lines was momentarily knocked unconscious yesterday evening when a wooden utility pole crashed onto the roof of his patrol car in a residential waterfront neighborhood. Although city Officer Carl Bouie, an eight-year veteran, did not appear seriously hurt, he was flown by MedEvac helicopter to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore as a precaution, said police Lt. Timothy Seipp. He was reported in fair condition shortly after arrival there.

A 49-year-old homeless man found beaten and unconscious last month died Wednesday as a result of his injuries, police said. David Allen Beers, of no fixed address, was found in the 1000 block of W. Lexington St. about 4 p.m. on April 23, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. He was unresponsive, with lacerations to his head and abrasions to his fists. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where doctors said he had suffered severe head trauma and listed him in critical condition.

A 20-year-old Harford County man died Thursday night following a two-alarm house fire in Baldwin that took 50 firefighters from Harford and Baltimore counties nearly two hours to control. According to a statement from the Maryland State Fire Marshal, Conner Daniel McKeown died as a result of a fire in a two-story wood frame house in the 2700 block of Greene Lane. According to the fire marshal's statement, crews were called at 7:47 p.m. and found McKeown unconscious inside the house.

One person was found unconscious in a house fire in the 1700 block of East North Avenue that was reported at around 12:45 a.m. Saturday. The victim was treated on the scene by paramedics and transported to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center suffering from smoke inhalation and injuries described by the fire department as "near life threatening. " The fire was put out within half an hour. There was no damage to adjacent properties and no other injuries were reported, according to fire department spokesman Kevin Cartwright.

The first of two South River High School seniors accused of beating a younger student into unconsciousness in a hallway acknowledged his role Monday and was sent home to await placement in a juvenile facility. Vernon Johnson, who was a football player, made the equivalent of a guilty plea to first-degree assault of Jacob Peters before Anne Arundel County Juvenile Court Master John F. Gunning. He and Jacob Dick agreed last month to admit punching the 15-year-old sophomore, in exchange for having their cases shifted to juvenile court, where they would not have adult criminal records.

A 15-year-old City College student has been charged with attempted first-degree murder and assault after he allegedly attacked a female classmate in the school last month, choking and beating her until she blacked out. Duane Geiger of North Baltimore was charged as an adult last month with attempted first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, and reckless endangerment in the attack, which took place in an art class at the...

Murder charges were pending against a 24-year-old Edgewood man in connection with the beating death of his 1-year-old daughter. Keaton Irons was being held in the Harford County Detention Center without bail while the investigation into the death of Shamyrah Irons continues. The child died of head trauma about 5:35 p.m. Thursday at the Johns Hopkins pediatric unit in Baltimore. Paramedics responding to a 911 call arrived Tuesday at Irons' home on Fountain Rock Way and found the unconscious child alone with her father.

The day after Gov. Martin O'Malley's 18-year-old daughter was briefly hospitalized, apparently after drinking alcohol, the first lady called the incident a "teachable moment." "We … encourage all parents and teenagers to be safe this graduation season," Katie Curran O'Malley said in a statement Friday. Tara O'Malley, the second-eldest of the governor's four children, graduated Wednesday from Notre Dame Preparatory School and had been at a celebration Thursday. A Baltimore police officer found her "apparently unconscious" with a friend at the Inner Harbor about 7:30 p.m. She was treated at Harbor Hospital and released that night.

Gomez Gallery's current three-artist show has the virtue of consistency. Each of the artists reveals ability and promise. None can yet be called a thoroughly original talent, and the reason's different in each case. But they all look as if they have the potential to get there, so it'll probably be worthwhile to stay tuned.John McGarity's paintings, often containing an element of photography, are expressionist in feel and look as if they relate to the collective unconscious -- the shared memory of the human species.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- A 29-year-old tradesman allowed into a suburban town house to clean carpets stands accused of beating and choking to death two University of Florida coeds who lived there.Alan Robert Davis, of nearby Newberry, was jailed without bond on first-degree murder charges after he described how he killed the two women, police said yesterday.Investigators continued to maintain that there was no link between the killings Thursday of Eleanor Grace, 20, and Carla McKishnie, 22, and the grisly murders of five other college students last August in the same part of this university town.

A 49-year-old homeless man found beaten and unconscious last month died Wednesday as a result of his injuries, police said. David Allen Beers, of no fixed address, was found in the 1000 block of W. Lexington St. about 4 p.m. on April 23, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. He was unresponsive, with lacerations to his head and abrasions to his fists. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where doctors said he had suffered severe head trauma and listed him in critical condition.

Baltimore County police are investigating a homicide in Cockeysville that took place early Wednesday. An unidentified man was killed in the 9800 block of Williamson Lane, off Cockeysville Road, police said. Police received a call for service at about 4 a.m. for a man lying unconscious outside his home. The man had sustained several blows to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a police spokesman. Investigators are waiting the results of an autopsy. Police say the man was originally from Mexico and had no local family.