Good Morning, Baltimore! Here's what yoou need to know for Friday:
WEATHER
It's going to be a cold today with a chance of 45 mph winds in the morning which will make it feel like temperatures are in the single digits. Temperatures will hit a daytime high of 26, and fall to 15 overnight. Punchy northwest winds will range from 10 to 20 mph, with winds reaching 50 mph over the weekend. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/weather/weather-blog/bal-snow-subzero-wind-chills-gusts-of-more-than-50-mph-this-weekend-20150212-story.html
TRAFFIC
Get the latest on delays for this morning's commute from baltimoresun.com
FROM LAST NIGHT
Hundreds gathered Thursday at a memorial service in Annapolis to mourn the six victims of a Jan. 19 fire that took the lives of Don Pyle, 56, his wife, Sandra, 63, and their four grandchildren. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/annapolis/bs-md-pyle-memorial-service-20150212-story.html
Gov. Larry Hogan pledged Thursday to make Maryland more welcoming to veterans, though he acknowledged it might prove tough to pass some of his proposed legislation to help them. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-hogan-veterans-20150212-story.html
Two 16-year olds were shot Thursday evening, one of them fatally, in a double shooting in Park Heights, Baltimore police said.
TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
Maryland's top transportation official on Thursday ordered immediate inspections of 27 aging, state-owned bridges after a chunk of concrete fell on a Prince George's County woman's car from the bottom of the Interstate 495 overpass in Morning side. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-bridge-inspections-20150212-story.html#page=1
Episcopal Church officials are considering whether the Rev. Heather Elizabeth Cook --- charged with driving drunk while texting in the December death of bicyclist Thomas Palermo ----may have lied about her struggles with alcohol during the process that led to her being elected the No. 2 bishop in the Diocese of Maryland last year. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-cook-lied-to-easton-20150212-story.html
Maryland will join a task force composed of Northeastern states to combat heroin traffic and deaths from the drug, said Brian E. Frosh, Maryland attorney general, Thursday. Maryland will join Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Maine in forming a 700-mile-long partnership. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-heroin-task-force-20150212-story.html#page=1
Martin Glass, whose wife, Joy Glass, suffers from Alzheimer's disease, lives at Sunrise Senior Living in Pikesville. He drives to the assisted-living facility nearly every day to feed and care for his 73-year-old wife. http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bs-ae-unforgettable-love-20150210-story.html#page=1
WHAT'S TRENDING?
New York Times media columnist David Carr died after collapsing in his office Thursday. He was 58. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/chi-new-york-times-media-columnist-david-carr-dies-20150212-story.html