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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Friday

WEATHER

showers and thunderstorms with a high temperature around 59 degrees. It is expected to be partly cloudy tonight with a low temperature around 39 degrees.

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TRAFFIC

for this morning's issues as you plan your commute.

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FROM LAST NIGHT...

: NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Thursday the civil rights group supports legislation in Maryland to extend rights to transgender residents. Jealous spoke at a national conference in Baltimore on rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

: The city has been selected to host a Navy Week in June, when the Blue Angels, the Leap Frogs parachute team and ships and sailors will join in the War of 1812 bicentennial celebration.

: An aging, little-used power plant in Williamsport is slated to be closed rather than meet new federal air-pollution limits, its owner announced Thursday, in what could be a spate of such shutdowns resulting from the controversial Obama administration regulation.

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: A man died Thursday after he was involved in a two-car accident in the morning near Owings Mills Mall, police said. The police crash team is still investigating the accident.

TODAY'S FRONT PAGE

: In an effort to make the hospital experience more patient-focused, there will be Xboxes and a basketball court for kids, sleeper-sofas for families, single rooms for all patients, an improved dining menu and extensive soundproofing at the new $1.1 billion hospital.

: A Baltimore-area man will face up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in connection with a failed terrorist plot to blow up a Catonsville military recruiting center in December 2010.

: Kenneth A. Kirby, who grew up in public housing in the capital city, is without a permanent place to live. He stays with a network of friends and family who open their homes to him -- a niece in public housing, a friend in Annapolis' moneyed downtown.

[Compiled by Dean Jones Jr.]

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