SHOTS IN THE DARK 2 students hurt in overnight shooting at Md. high school

Feb. 4, 2015: Officials enter Frederick High School. (AP)

Two students were shot outside a Maryland public high school Wednesday night while a basketball game was being played inside causing panic as parents rushed to the scene to make sure their children were OK.

The Frederick High School students were flown to a Baltimore hospital. The injuries they suffered did not appear to be life-threatening, Frederick Police Capt. Richard Hetherington said. He did not know the ages or gender of the students.

Hetherington said the shooter or shooters were still at large early Thursday.

Frederick Police Department Lt. Bruce DeGrange told FoxNews.com the shooting took place at 8 p.m. and the authorities immediately locked down the building.

Officers took about 200 people who were at the game into the cafeteria. Police secured the building and questioned witnesses, Hetherington said. Students were released to their parents in the parking of a nearby bowling alley.

Frederick High School junior Sofia McCluskey said she was watching the game and heard a muffled shot. “Someone yelled, `Yo, they’re shooting,”‘ she said. “And we just ran as fast as we could.”

She and her friend, Stephanie Sanchez, said they ran to the locker room and were taken to the cafeteria, where they waited and were briefly interviewed by police.

Sanchez said it was a frightening experience. “I was, like, shaking the whole time. I still am,” she said.

Dejuan Jones, a sophomore, said, “You would expect it to happen at a varsity game, but it was like a JV game,” he said. “Nobody hardly comes to those.”

Frederick County Public Schools officials tweeted that all other staff and students were safe and accounted for.

The high school has about 1,300 students. The district said that the school would be closed Thursday for students.

FoxNews.com’s Karl de Vries and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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SHOTS IN THE DARK 2 students hurt in overnight shooting at Md. high school

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SOUTH AFRICA: Mandela improved overnight

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela’s health improved overnight and although his condition remains critical it is now stable, the South African government said yesterday. One of the former president’s daughters said he was still opening his eyes and reacting to the touch of his family even though his situation was precarious.

The report that the health of the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader had taken a turn for the better came amid a growing sense in South Africa that Mandela was approaching the end of his life. Well-wishers have delivered flowers and messages of support to the Pretoria hospital where he is being treated, and prayer sessions were held around the country on Thursday.President Jacob Zuma’s office said in a statement that he received the encouraging update from the medical team that is treating Mandela. Zuma had cancelled an international trip yesterday, instead visiting Mandela for the second time in two days.“I cancelled my visit to Mozambique today (yesterday) so that I can see him and confer with the doctors,” Zuma said in the statement. “He is much better today than he was when I saw him last night.”In April, Zuma gave an overly upbeat assessment about Mandela’s condition. At that time, state television broadcast footage of a visit by Zuma and other political leaders to Mandela’s home. Zuma said at the time that Mandela was in good shape, but the footage showed him silent and unresponsive, even when Zuma tried to hold his hand.Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years during white racist rule and became president in all-race elections in 1994, was taken to a hospital on June 8 for what the government said was a recurring lung infection.Zuma urged people to pray for Mandela, and continue with their work and daily activities even while he is hospitalised.The president’s office said it was disturbed by what it called rumours about Mandela’s health and appealed for respect for the privacy and dignity of the former leader. Unconfirmed reports about Mandela have swirled on social media and other forums.Mandela’s condition is acknowledged to be grave. He is on life support systems, according to a few television networks that quote anonymous sources, and presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj has declined to confirm or deny those reports.Makaziwe Mandela, one of Mandela’s daughters, echoed the criticism, saying foreign media coverage of her father’s illness had become intrusive, particularly at the Pretoria hospital where many journalists have gathered.“There’s sort of a racist element with many of the foreign media, where they just cross boundaries,” she said in the SABC interview. “It’s like truly vultures waiting when a lion has devoured a buffalo, waiting there for the last carcasses. That’s the image that we have, as a family.”She said: “We don’t mind the interest. But I just think it has gone overboard.”In comments posted on the SABC website, Makaziwe Mandela said “anything is imminent” because her father, referred to affectionately by many South Africans as “Tata”, or “Father”, is in a very critical state.“I want to emphasise again that it’s only God who knows when the time to go is,” she said. “So we will wait with Tata. He’s still giving us hope by opening his eyes, he’s still reactive to touch, we will live with that hope until the end comes.”Beginning a trip to Africa, President Barack Obama said in Senegal yesterday that his thoughts and prayers were with South Africans and in particular the Mandela family. He said he was inspired, as a law school student in the early 1990s, to see Mandela step forward after decades of imprisonment to help deliver democracy in a spirit of reconciliation with his former captors.“It gave me a sense of what is possible in the world when righteous people, when people of goodwill, work together on behalf of a larger cause,” said Obama, who described Mandela as a personal hero. “And if and when he passes from this place, one thing I think we’ll all know is that his legacy is one that will linger on throughout the ages.”

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SOUTH AFRICA: Mandela improved overnight