With 18 games left on their regular-season schedule, Monday’s series opener against the Red Sox offered plenty of opportunities to put up some crooked numbers on the Fenway Park scoreboard. Instead, they stranded 11 base runners and their bullpen crumbled late as they fell to their division rivals, 12-3, for their third straight loss.

Anthony Santander did his part, becoming the eighth player in Orioles history and first since Mark Trumbo in 2016 to hit 40 home runs in a season with a solo shot in the seventh inning. He drove in all three of the team’s runs to improve his team-leading RBI total to 94, but Baltimore otherwise squandered scoring chances in each of the first four frames.

The Orioles loaded the bases in the first and fourth innings and walked away with only one run each time courtesy of Santander. He scored Gunnar Henderson on a hard-hit single in the first before later bringing Colton Cowser home on an RBI walk. Otherwise, the Orioles went 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position to stay true to what has become an all-to-familiar theme over the past three months.

Rookie starter Cade Povich, coming off the best start of his young career with 7 1/3 scoreless innings against the Chicago White Sox, got an early hook from manager Brandon Hyde after allowing a lot of hard contact, including back-to-back home runs by Rob Refsnyder and Tyler O’Neill in the third that helped Boston jump out to a 4-1 lead.

He lasted two outs into the fifth before giving way to Burch Smith, who got out of the inning with some help from his defense. Cowser played a fly ball off the Green Monster perfectly and fired a 95.1 mph throw home that Adley Rutschman gathered before making a diving tag to nab Refsnyder trying to score from first. The play was part of a defensive clinic put on by the Orioles’ outfield with Cedric Mullins making a diving catch in center field in the third.

But Smith unraveled in the sixth, loading the bases before Ceddanne Rafaela extended the Red Sox’s lead with a two-run single. Gregory Soto then came in to get out of the jam and Refsnyder struck again with a two-run single that made it 8-2. All four runs were charged to Smith, who has allowed 15 earned runs in his last 14 2/3 innings (9.20 ERA) dating to Aug. 6.

Craig Kimbrel’s equally unimpressive ongoing stretch continued as well. The demoted closer struck out the first two batters he faced in the seventh before giving up a single, stolen base, walk and two-run double by Rafaela. Since recording his latest save on July 7, Kimbrel has an 8.83 ERA over 18 appearances with three losses and two blown saves.

He was replaced by Cole Irvin, who became the second pitcher of the night to allow consecutive home runs to Refsnyder and O’Neill. Refsnyder came to the plate in the eighth a triple short of the cycle and had to settle for a multi-homer game, driving in his fifth RBI by poking one just inside of Pesky’s Pole in right field. O’Neill then capped off the evening with another Green Monster-clearing blast.

Baltimore (82-63) will send Albert Suárez to the mound Tuesday against Boston starter Kutter Crawford as the club looks to even the series.

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Franklin Smith, 34, of Catonsville, received a nine-year sentence, while Davon Dorsey, 30, of Gwynn Oak, was sentenced to 15 years.

The defendants were charged with 12 counts in April 2022, including kidnapping, according to court documents. In July, Smith pleaded guilty to carjacking and using a gun in a violent crime. In March, Dorsey pleaded guilty to carjacking.

In May 2021, Smith, Dorsey and two others posed as police officers with lights on their car, vests and badges and pulled over an employee of Check Cash Depot in Northwest Baltimore on her way home from work, according to court documents. Smith set up a detour to direct the woman down a side street where two other defendants brandishing guns removed her from her car, handcuffed and blindfolded her while demanding access to the cash checking business, according to court documents. The defendants then left the woman in the trunk of her own car and covered it with a tarp. She was able to make her way out and call for help, according to a news release from the district attorney’s office.

Later in May 2021, the defendants again used police lights to pull over a man around midnight in Edgewood, according to court documents. The defendants told the victim he had a warrant and was under arrest before handcuffing, blindfolding and bounding him while demanding $10,000, according to court documents. The defendants eventually released the victim in Baltimore City after 5 a.m.

In August 2021 the defendants carjacked a woman outside an Ace Cash Express in Cockeysville by posing as police officers and blindfolding her in the back of a car, according to the indictment. The defendants demanded access to the check cashing business and safe codes, detaining the victim for nearly six hours before releasing her near Edmonson Village, according to court documents.

In all three cases, the defendants threatened the victims with guns and assaulted them with blow torches while demanding money and keys to the businesses, according to court documents. Court documents do not say that the defendants were ever successful in accessing or robbing one of the check cashing businesses.

The two other defendants in the case did not take plea deals, according to court documents. Dennis Hairston, 34, of Windsor Mill, and Donte Stanley, 33, of Rosedale, were convicted by a jury in June of kidnapping, gun and carjacking charges. They both have sentencing hearings scheduled for November.

The Mets said the cause was cardiac arrest.

He is the fourth member of the Mets’ 1969 World Series championship team — the “Miracle Mets,” as they were called — to die this year, following Jerry Grote, Bud Harrelson and Jim McAndrew.

The Mets were nearly halfway to a 40-120 record in 1962, their first season as a National League franchise, when they signed Kranepool for a bonus of $80,000. A tall, left-handed batter, he had just broken Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg’s single-season home run record at James Monroe High School in the Bronx. Ed was 17 and living at home.

Kranepool brought a jolt of youthful promise to a team managed by Casey Stengel, the wizened former New York Yankees skipper, and stocked with mediocrities, castoffs, players past their primes and the inaccurately nicknamed Marvelous Marv Throneberry.

When Stengel assessed Kranepool’s talent, he told The New York Times: “He don’t strike out too much and he don’t let himself get suckered into goin’ for bad pitches. I wouldn’t be afraid to play him. He don’t embarrass you.”

After playing briefly for the Mets at the end of the 1962 season, Kranepool struggled against major league pitching during the next two seasons. When he faltered in 1963, one fan raised a banner that asked, “Is Ed Kranepool Over the Hill?”

He was 18.

He was soon sent to the Mets’ top minor league team in Buffalo, New York, for parts of the 1963 and 1964 seasons.

And in 1970, when a batting average of .118 led to another demotion, Times columnist Robert Lipsyte wrote, “Kranepool was the last player linked to the bad old days, and it might have been more than symbolic that the Mets rose into first place the day after he was cut loose, like a balloon freed of ballast.”

He was promoted about six weeks later, played sparingly and wound up hitting .170. And the Mets faded to third place.

But the next season was one of Kranepool’s best — he hit 14 home runs, drove in a career-high 58 runs and batted .280.

Nicknamed “Steady Eddie, ” Kranepool inspired fans to chant “Ed-die! Ed-die!” He was selected to the 1965 National League All-Star team, though he didn’t play. In the 1969 World Series, he hit a home run as the Mets rolled to the championship in five games over the favored Baltimore Orioles.

After the ’69 Series, Kranepool and several teammates, including Tom Seaver and Cleon Jones, put together a musical act that performed in Las Vegas, singing, among other songs, “The Impossible Dream.” After the group’s debut on the Circus Maximus stage at Caesars Palace, Kranepool conceded that the singing Mets were nervous.

“It’s not like Shea Stadium, where we know what we’re doing,” he told the Times. “But we had enough Scotch.”

Edward Emil Kranepool III was born in New York City’s Bronx borough on Nov. 8, 1944, less than four months after his father, Edward Jr., an Army sergeant, was killed in battle in Saint-Lô, France, during World War II. His mother, Ethel (Hasselbach) Kranepool, raised her son and her daughter, Marilyn, on a military pension and earnings from various jobs.

Ethel Kranepool told The Daily News in 1963 that it had been difficult to be a single parent. “With Edward it was always a case of slapping him on the backside with one hand and handing him an ice cream cone with the other,” she said.

Ed Kranepool swung a toy bat at age 3, then played baseball in local playgrounds and sandlots. By high school, he stood 6-foot-3 and was launching long drives at James Monroe’s home field toward a large oak in right center field that came to be known as “Eddie’s Tree.”

He played for the Monroe team that lost, 6-5, to Curtis High School of Staten Island in the Public Schools Athletic League title game in 1962. Around graduation time, he tried out for the Mets at the Polo Grounds, the former home of the New York Giants and the Mets’ temporary home before Shea Stadium opened in 1964. He impressed the team by hitting nine balls into the stands.

That flash of teenage muscle helped give rise to the improbable notion that the Mets might have signed another great left-handed-hitting first baseman, like Mel Ott of the Giants or Lou Gehrig of the Yankees.

But Kranepool never became a superstar. Rather, he was a line-drive hitter with modest power — he never had more than 16 home runs in a season — who turned into an elite pinch-hitter as his time as a first baseman and outfielder diminished.

When the Mets returned to the World Series in 1973, facing the Oakland A’s, Kranepool went hitless in three plate appearances. The Mets lost in seven games.

From 1974 to 1978, he came off the bench to hit .396 as a pinch-hitter. In 1978, he had 15 hits in 50 at bats in that reserve role, including three home runs.

When he retired after the 1979 season, Kranepool held several Mets career records, all but two of which have been surpassed: the most pinch hits, 90, and most games played, 1,853

Kranepool admitted to regrets that he had spent too little time being nurtured in the minor leagues and that he had played for a team so desperate for fresh talent. “If I could have seen ahead in 1962, I would have signed with another club,” he told the Times as the Mets were heading to the World Series in 1969. “It was a lot of fun playing in the majors, but a lot of frustrations, too.”

He is survived by his wife, Monica (Bronner) Kranepool; his daughter, Jamie Pastrano; his sons, Keith Kranepool and Darren Todfield; seven grandchildren; and a sister, Marilyn Ternay.

During his playing career, Kranepool was a stockbroker and, with his teammate the outfielder Ron Swoboda, an owner of The Dugout, a restaurant in Amityville, New York, on Long Island. When he heard in 1979, during his final season, that the Mets might be for sale, he said, he assembled a group to purchase the franchise. But it was acquired by a group led by Fred Wilpon and Doubleday & Co., the publishing house. The Wilpon family later became the team’s majority owner and ultimately sold the Mets to the current owners, Steve and Alex Cohen, in 2020.

In about 2011, with Wilpon and his family facing financial pressure following losses from their involvement with fraudster Bernard L. Madoff, they sought investors to buy minority stakes in the club. At a team dinner, a Mets spokesperson recalled, Kranepool talked to Jeff Wilpon, the club’s chief operating officer and one of Wilpon’s sons, about the sales of the shares.

“I don’t want shares,” the spokesperson quoted Kranepool as saying. “I want to buy the whole team so I can run it better than you and your father.”

The encounter caused a rift that ended seven years later with a call from Jeff Wilpon that led to Kranepool’s throwing out the first pitch before a game in 2018.

“I was on the outside looking in,” Kranepool told the Times, “and I’m glad I’m not anymore.”

In 2017, after announcing that both his kidneys were failing, Kranepool auctioned his 1969 Mets world championship ring for $62,475 to defray medical expenses. After undergoing transplant surgery nearly two years later, he learned who his donor was: a Mets fan.

A few months after the surgery, he helped the Mets celebrate the 50th anniversary of their World Series victory. Speaking at Citi Field during the ceremony, he encouraged the team, then near the bottom of the National League East, to turn their season around.

“They can do it, like we did — you got to believe in yourself,” he said. “Good luck. You have half a season. I wish you the best so that we can celebrate in October.”

The team did rally, finishing third in the division, but there was no 50th-anniversary miracle. The Mets didn’t make the playoffs.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Field hockey

Francis Scott Key 5, Frederick 0: The Eagles blanked Frederick led by a hat trick from Jena Stambaugh. She scored once in the first quarter and twice in the third. Josie Bachtel and Dory Kelley also found the cage for FSK. Audrey Baugher had two assists, while Carley Topper and Bella Mazan also handed out helpers.

Westminster 3, Bel Air 2: Vivian Dunn scored the game-winner in the second overtime for the Owls. Ava Piluk tallied Westminster’s first two goals with Dunn assisting on both. Bel Air got a goal from Bella Leon to open the game, and another from Paige Feick on a penalty stroke that tied the game late in the fourth quarter. In goal, Natalie Schultz made six saves for the Owls and Sydney Kennedy made eight saves for the Bobcats.

South Carroll 3, Linganore 2: Megan Maynard, Emily Maynard and Olivia Carter all had goals as the Cavaliers held off Linganore. Alayna Enoff, Dakota Clemens and Kayla Janyska all had assists. In goal, Caelin Lopes made four saves.

Franklin 4, Winters Mill 2: The Indians went on the road and neither the Falcons, nor their grass field, could stop Nora Tromble. The junior scored all four goals in Franklin’s win. Riley Dell and Cici Coco scored for Winters Mill. Addy Vanlandingham made 10 saves in goal.

John Carroll 4, Mercy 2: Four Patriots scored in the win with Sara Shorts, Cate Bianco, Annie Minoglio and Mia Castellano all recording goals.

River Hill 3, Atholton 0: Katelyn Sauritch led the way for the Hawks (1-0) in the season-opening win with a goal and an assist. Carolyn Dzubak and Gabby Bergstrom also scored while Maya Chan had an assist. For Atholton (0-1), Adara Baldini made 24 saves.

Centennial 3, Howard 0: Caroline Cudzilo led the Eagles (1-0) in a season-opening win with a pair of goals. Claire Whipkey added a goal and an assist, while Jane Baldy pitched a shutout with four saves.

Reservoir 8, Oakland Mills 0: The Gators offense exploded in the season-opening win. Freshman Sam Feher netted a hat trick and added an assist in her first varsity action. Senior Claire Kimnach added two goals, while senior Sandra Salkini had a goal and a game-high three assists. Junior Annie Riley scored the game’s first goal, while Madi Ellis also scored on a feed from Radhika Shah.

Football

Patterson Mill 25, Digital Harbor 12: In the conclusion of a game suspended Friday because of a lighting issue, the Huskies scored the final 18 points. Digital Harbor went up 12-7 before RJ Wilhelm scored a touchdown for the Huskies and the extra point put them ahead, 13-12. Mason Hemelt had a pick-six for a touchdown and Brycen Hunter closed out the scoring with a 1-yard run.

Boys soccer

North Harford 4, Elkton 0: Matthew Deily scored twice and assisted on a third goal in the Hawks’ shutout win. Ryder Taylor and Sebasteyan McNally also scored, while Jamail Holmes tallied two assists.

Pikesville 2, Western Tech 1: Anderson Marquez hit the back of the net with less than five minutes remaining to like Pikesville to the win. Ablante Fesseha scored for the Panthers in the first half. In goal, junior Josh Kaplan made four saves.

Girls soccer

Catonsville 2, Mount de Sales 1: Ella Lesniewski scored off an Elin Mellendick assist for the Comets and Kaitlyn Bachtel scored the team’s second goal off a free kick.

Bel Air 3, North East 2: The Bobcats surged ahead after a 1-1 halftime tie. Ally Mace hit the back of the net twice to lead Bel Air to the win. Eve Krout also scored. Sarah Ravadge, Aubrey Blackburn and Kaitlyn Primus had assists and Emerson Schiller made three saves in goal.

Harford Tech 8, Elkton 2: Laney Weaver and Brooke Pollack each recorded hat tricks in the Cobras’ blowout win, and Abby Downes scored twice.

John Carroll 4, Elizabeth Seton 0: Clara Madore had a hand in all four Patriots goals, scoring two and assisting on two. Bella Ottone and Cali Fridel also hit the back of the net. Lily Baumgartner had an assist.

Severn 5, Glenelg Country 2: The Admirals jumped out to a 3-0 halftime lead. Five players scored in the win: Tessa Patel, Layla Epps, Sophia English, Madison Watson and Irelyn Beaulieu. Patel, Eliza Grace Beard, Carys McKenzie and Nina Ambro all had assists.

Westminster 2, Dulaney 0: Clara Kemp (6 saves) and Andi Zaslow (4) split time in goal to combine for the shutout over the Lions. For the offense, Emmerson Hill and Jenny Vasquez scored goals with Riley Taylor and Mikayla Britz handing out assists.

Golf

Dulaney 161, Western Tech 216: The Lions topped the Wolverines led by Quinn Collins with a 37 and Eli Mace with a 39.

Boys volleyball

Patterson Mill 3, Edgewood 0: The Huskies cruised, 25-8, 25-13, 25-10. Cullen Young led the win with eight kills and five aces. Jake Rakaczky also served fived aces for the Huskies. Aidan Mackowiak chipped in four kills.

North Harford 3, C. Milton Wright: The Hawks swept the Mustangs, 25-11, 25-12, 25-16. Mike DeJesus picked up 21 digs in the win and Jackson Armiger tossed up 23 assists. Chance Kobus and Jordan Bogarty shared the team lead with eight kills each.

Girls volleyball

Annapolis 3, Frederick Douglass 0: Christen Brisbane put down 12 kills to lead the Panthers in their sweep. McHale Hughes tossed up 15 assists while getting three kills of her own. Lindsay Lyman had four kills and six blocks, and Carolin Heyder chipped in four aces and three kills.

Century 3, Francis Scott Key 1: The Knights won, 25-21, 23-25, 27-25, 25-16. Stephanie Villanueva had nine aces and served the match’s final nine points with the set tied at 16. Corinne Zepp added six aces. Gabby Zajaczkowski and Hannah Heffernan each put down 11 kills. Heffernan added 15 digs for a double-double. Zepp led the defense with 28 digs. Julia Boone set up a balanced Eagles offense with 20 assists. Samantha Miller led with six kills. Ripleigh Maring and Kiersten Johannes each added five kills and Maring adding six blocks and Johannes five.

Perry Hall 3, Oakland Mills 1: Abbie Znamirowski had 10 aces and Addison Dunlap was close behind her with eight as the Gators won, 25-14, 23-25, 25-12, 25-17. Dunlap also tossed up 13 assists. Milana Scaccio had six kills and three aces.

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McCann, 34, was the Orioles’ choice as the player who “best represents the game of Baseball through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions, both on and off the field.” In addition to being a clubhouse leader, he and his wife Jessica are involved in several charity initiatives across the Baltimore area.

“It’s very special,” McCann said of the nomination. “The Clemente Award, it’s a different award, obviously. It’s what you do in the community, what you do off the field. What Roberto Clemente stands for, who he was, obviously, as a player and then just who he was to his community, words don’t really describe what it is to be viewed in that same light. Being nominated for that, it’s a very special award. I’m proud of it, and I feel very strongly that using my platform to be able to impact the community in a positive way is very important.”

Over the past year, the McCann family has worked to support students in Harlem Park as part of the Orioles’ larger initiative in the community and taken on the personal mission of working with the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to help families of children born prematurely. He’s also partnered with Dream On 3 to help a pair of adopted brothers, DJ and Marshall, with life-altering conditions fulfill their dream of getting a VIP experience at an Orioles game. The Orioles credit McCann for his participation in the club’s Military Suites Program and his work with the Church of the City’s Wrap Around Closet in Nashville as well.

“He’s done a lot of great things with the community and congratulations to him,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “This is a big award. This is something that’s really, really special. It means a lot to players, so for him to get this nomination, and have a chance to win this, a credit to him and his wife for what they do off the field in helping so many people.”

McCann would be the fifth player in Orioles history to win the honor, joining Brooks Robinson (1972), Ken Singleton (1982), Cal Ripken Jr. (1992) and Eric Davis (1997). New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge is the reigning winner. Originally created in 1971 as the Commissioner’s Award, the annual honor was named for Clemente after he died in a plane crash while on his way to deliver supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. He was 38 years old.

Lauded for his toughness — especially after he played through a broken nose after being hit in the face by a pitch in July — McCann has served as the Orioles’ backup catcher each of the last two years. He entered this week’s series against the Boston Red Sox hitting .220 with five home runs in 58 games this season.

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• MLB named Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson the American League Player of the Week on Monday after he went 10-for-24 (.417) with three home runs, five RBIs and six runs scored for Baltimore. It’s the first time this season and second in Henderson’s career that he has garnered the honor. He’s the third Oriole to receive it in 2024 with Colton Cowser and Jordan Westburg going back-to-back in April.

• Hyde expressed tepid optimism that first baseman Ryan Mountcastle (wrist) would be able to return from the injured list by the end of the regular season but hedged his comments saying, “I just don’t know when.” Mountcastle has been sidelined since Aug. 22 when he jammed his wrist into second base on a headfirst slide.

• Right-hander Grayson Rodriguez is hoping to throw a live bullpen session “sometime this road trip,” Hyde said before Monday’s game. Rodriguez threw off a mound for the first time Wednesday and facing hitters in a simulated game setting is the next step in his progression toward a potential return before season’s end.

His office told NBC News and Reuters that Bush also won’t reveal how he or wife Laura will vote this November.

“President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago,” his office told NBC News.

A couple of days ago, Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney, announced he would cross party lines and support Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Cheney called the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, a “threat to our republic.”

“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in a statement. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.”

Cheney, who joined his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, in advocating for Harris over Trump, said he was putting “country above partisanship.”

As for Bush, People magazine reported in 2021 that he didn’t vote for either Trump or President Joe Biden in the last election. Bush wrote in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s name instead, according to the interview with People.

Bush won’t be endorsing Harris, but some of his former staffers have done just that.

Over 200 Republicans who worked for the last two Republican presidents, before Trump, and the last two Republican presidential nominees signed onto an open letter endorsing Harris to be president.

The Republicans signing onto a letter lending their support to Harris included people who worked for Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush as well as those who worked for the late Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney, the GOP nominees in 2008 and 2012.

The Republicans in the letter noted that many of them also spoke out in 2020 against reelecting Trump.

“We made those announcements months before lies about a stolen election became everyday talking points and six months before Trump incited an insurrection, cheering on a mob of sore losers and sycophants as they tried to use force to overturn the will of the American public. We reunite today, joined by new George H.W. Bush alumni, to reinforce our 2020 statements and, for the first time, jointly declare that we’re voting for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz this November,” part of the letter reads. “Of course, we have plenty of honest, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz. That’s to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable.”

And multiple Republicans joined Democrats on stage at their convention in August to endorse Harris.

One of them, former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, told the DNC crowd that she was throwing her support behind Harris “because I love my country more than my party.”

Meanwhile, former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and former Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have endorsed Trump.

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“As a mother of seven, I am utterly devastated and heartbroken,” Nikia Evans wrote in a letter to the school system. “This tragedy highlights a critical need for increased safety measures, improved communication and greater transparency.”

Her letter echoed the sentiments of many parents who posted on social media platforms asking for enhanced security measures and transparency since the Friday killing of 15-year-old Warren Grant.

“We must implement additional measures such as metal detectors, expanded school police forces and tighter security protocols,” Evans wrote. “I urge the school district to implement more stringent measures to prevent future acts of violence within our schools.”

Joppatowne High student Jaylen Rushawn Prince, 16, of Edgewood, was charged as an adult in the shooting death of Grant, a fellow student. According to police reports, Prince pulled out a handgun during a fight inside the school and shot Grant in the chest. Prince fled the school and was arrested after allegedly attempting to break into a home, police said.

County Councilmembers Aaron Penman and Dion Guthrie said the county needs to look into ways to improve security within schools.

“I think back to when my kids were at Joppatowne High School and it is sad,” said Guthrie, a Democrat representing District A. “School safety needs to be a priority, and I will be looking into what we can do as a council to protect our students.”

Penman, a Republican representing District B and a sergeant with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, said he also wants to engage in conversations about safety in addition to discussing methods of intervention to prevent problems from spilling into the school building.

“This should have never happened in a school,” Penman said. “There is a good possibility this could have happened outside of the school and we need to diagnose that from a community level and maybe that spills over to school administrators and they need to have the conversation and allow law enforcement to take preventative measures.”

As for prevention inside the school, Penman explained the importance of school resource officers and the potential of metal detectors as being a solution.

Both Guthrie and Penman said implementing deterrents such as metal detectors would be a costly endeavor.

“We need to have these discussions and I look forward to examining all options at the county level and metal detectors at schools would be one,” Penman said. “That does come with a cost but the loss of a life is much more costly than any dollar cost.”

Conversations at the county level regarding school safety are still preliminary stages. As of Monday, county officials said they are working to understand what led to the shooting at Joppatowne High School and what solutions they can enact that further protect students.

In a filing in the foreclosure case of Spacey’s harborfront home in Baltimore’s Federal Hill, the actor asked the court to revoke the sale to a Potomac real estate investor. Trustees mishandled the auction, leading to an inadequate price of $3.24 million, and the buyer should be disqualified because of harassment, the document says.

A representative of buyer Sam Asgari called the claims “frivolous” and without merit.

“This is still the house of cards,” said Sam Sheibani, a Compass real estate agent who is representing Asgari, on Monday, referring to the popular Netflix TV series filmed in Baltimore in which Spacey starred.

Asgari is preparing a response to the latest filings in Baltimore City Circuit Court and plans to pursue eviction, Sheibani said.

Attorneys for Spacey, listed as Kevin Spacey Fowler, principal of home owner Clear Toaster LLC, accused Asgari of acting in bad faith.

“Mr. Asgari has continuously harassed Clear Toaster’s principal, Kevin Spacey Fowler, and has published false and defamatory statements and accusations against Clear Toaster’s principal, Kevin Spacey Fowler, who occupies the property as his home,” said Spacey’s attorney, Edward U. Lee III, in a motion Friday.

Spacey purchased the two-unit condo in the gated The Pier Homes at Harborview for $5.7 million in 2017. His friend and manager Evan Lowenstein owned the home, but the former “House of Cards” star recently laid claim to it, Lowenstein previously told The Sun.

The Oscar-winning Spacey, who has said he was left with millions of dollars of debt from fighting several lawsuits in the U.S. and Britain alleging sexual misconduct, owed back payments for the home.

Last summer, a city Circuit Court judge approved a foreclosure sale.

Spacey’s attorneys are arguing the court should revoke the July sale, which took place outside Baltimore Circuit Court and require trustees to resell the property.

They say trustees failed in their obligations to maximize the home’s price. They advertised it as a dwelling, the filing said, but left out details such as its size, 9,000 square feet on five levels, and amenities, such as seven full baths, a sauna, elevator, home theaters, a rooftop terrace and four-car garage.

The price at auction fell well below both the property’s assessed value of more than $5.4 million in July, and the outstanding principal balance of more than $3.8 million, the court document said.

It says Asgari should be disqualified, in part because he threatened eviction before the auction sale had been ratified and before he had possession of the home, placing a “notice about eviction” on the home Spacey has occupied as his primary residence. The sale is not final, the filing says, until an exception period expires and the court ratifies the sale.

Yet, Spacey’s filing says, the notice placed on the property on the day of the auction gave anyone residing in the home 15 days to notify Asgari, or the property would be considered abandoned and the locks changed, without a court order.

Asgari knew the home was not abandoned and intended only to “harass and coerce [Spacey] to leave his home when he was in no way obligated to do so,” the filing said. “In Mr. Asgari’s wrongful demand to have [Spacey] vacate the property, he threatened to pursue eviction as a result of the property being ‘abandoned.'”

Lee said Asgari contacted him in mid-August, “threatening to proceed with interviews with Inside Edition and CBS News that same day unless an immediate response was provided regarding the vacancy date and further threatening to start eviction proceedings the following Monday.”

Asgari views the chain of events differently, Sheibani said. Spacey simply won’t return something that no longer belongs to him, he said.

He is taking advantage of “my client’s generosity, requesting a large sum of money and a long time to vacate the property,” Sheibani said. “We simply want the property that rightly belongs to my client to be vacated and handed over.”

Lee, Spacey’s attorney, countered in the filing that Spacey has never “refused or threatened to refuse” to leave the home.

The document said Lee spoke with Asgari’s attorney Aug. 6 and proposed that Spacey be allowed to stay until about Feb. 1 in exchange for giving Asgari early entry to the home to begin planning to sell to an investor and agreeing not to file an objection to ratification of the sale.

But then a week later, Asgari offered $50,000 if Spacey would leave by Sept. 15, the filing says.

Why must everything in Baltimore have a direct or immediate (versus indirect) monetary result? My wife and I recently spent several days in Manhattan. In addition to Broadway shows, we had a wonderful time visiting Central Park, a significant New York City attraction available free of charge. This attracts visitors who support local businesses. Imagine the value of this property located in the midst of skyscrapers. Baltimore would love to develop this! Why must we have additional office space. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m under the impression current office space is underutilized. Not only that, but I’m sure downtown hotels would enjoy the increase in traffic. I recently read a significant hotel near Camden Yards is losing money.

Why not make the entire region, including the Inner Harbor, Baltimore’s Central Park? Imagine dining in Little Italy or other local restaurants, walking across the pedestrian bridge for a concert, then a visit to the aquarium, a walk through Baltimore’s Inner Harbor park (without an obstructed view), culminating with a visit to the Maryland Science Center. By now we’re hungry again and looking for a restaurant near Federal Hill. After a hotel stay, a visit to Fort McHenry is ideal for day two.

This is the golden opportunity Baltimore would waste simply for the sake of a direct and immediate monetary result. A gorgeous park-like setting with multiple attractions would put Baltimore back on the map long-term while bolstering local business. If developed as proposed, would I want to visit and spend my money? No.

— Richard Piniecki, Perry Hall

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In 2020, Harris supported a ban on plastic straws. She now says if you like your plastic straws, you can keep them! I am so overwhelmed with joy.

— Michael Ernest, Catonsville

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