Amount Of Money

POLICE LOG* Town Center: 5500 block of Sterrett Place: Someone stole an undisclosed amount of money from a purse at the Columbia Inn between 8:15 p.m. and 11:10 p.m. Saturday.

Harford County sheriff's deputies have arrested two men in the armed robberies of two convenience stores. Marquis M. Starks of Edgewood and James C. Proctor of Ellicott City, both 19, are being held without bail in the Harford County Detention Center. They were charged Wednesday in the robberies of the Royal Lands store in the 1700 block of Hanson Road in Edgewood and the Royal Farms Store in the 500 block of Joppa Farm Road in Joppa. Both crimes occurred Tuesday. Police said one man would pose as a shopper until the other arrived displaying a knife and demanding money.

An article in yesterday's editions incorrectly reported the amount of money taken in annually by the state lottery's %J three-digit numbers game. The correct amount is about $351 million.The Sun regrets the error.

This month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services improperly allowed a total of $50 million to be deposited into the bank accounts of hundreds of thousands of participants in the new prescription drug plan. And this week, employees at the Woodlawn-based agency began the difficult task of getting all of that money back. CMS spokesman Jeff Nelligan said that a data processing error among a small team of workers in Woodlawn stopped the Social Security Administration from automatically deducting prescription drug premiums from about 231,000 participants' Social Security checks.

Bank robber uses note implying he has a bombUsing a note implying he had a bomb, a man robbed a Glen Burnie bank of an undisclosed amount of money Wednesday morning, county police said.The man walked into the NationsBank branch in the 300 block of Hospital Drive about 10 a.m. and handed a cashier a threatening note demanding money.The cashier handed the bandit an undisclosed amount of money.The man then ran out of the bank.Pub Date: 5/31/96

And, a graphic in yesterday's Today section about the funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting incorrectly reported the amount of money spent on administrative expenses. CPB spends $13 million, or 4.6 percent of its budget, in that area.* The Sun regrets the error.

A worker for Domino's Pizza was robbed at gunpoint early yesterday behind the store at 8775 Cloud Leap Court in Columbia, Howard County police said.An undisclosed amount of money was taken, police said. The worker was not injured in the robbery, which occurred at 12: 02 a.m.Pub Date: 10/13/97

Because of inaccurate information supplied to The Sun, an article in yesterday's business section incorrectly stated the amount of money the Frederick Brewing Co. hopes to raise in a public stock offering. The company expects to raise between $2.5 million and $4.8 million.The Sun regrets the errors.

An article in Friday's editions of The Sun misstated the amount of money appropriated by the state toward a new comprehensive cancer center at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Maryland General Assembly has authorized $30.5 million for the center.The Sun regrets the error.

A gunman robbed a Pasadena gas station of an undisclosed amount of money early yesterday, county police reported.According to police, the gunman walked into the Shell station in the 100 block of Mountain Road at 5 a.m., showed the clerk a gun and demanded money.The clerk gave him the cash, and the robber fled.

A Provident Bank branch in downtown Baltimore was robbed yesterday by a man who slipped a note to a teller demanding money, police said. The holdup occurred about 9:30 a.m. in the 100 block of E. Lexington St. Police said a teller gave the man an unspecified amount of money. The man did not display a weapon and no one was injured, police said.

I borrowed money from my boss for personal reasons and signed a letter allowing him to deduct $150 from my check every two weeks, a rate of $300 a month. Now he has advised me that he intends to double that amount to $600 a month. I cannot afford this, nor did I sign an amended agreement allowing him to take that amount of money from my check. Can he change the terms of our agreement on his own? Absolutely not. Except for income taxes and court-ordered payments, he must have your written approval to deduct money from your wages.

The crime report is a sampling of crimes in Howard County compiled from police. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-313-3700. East Columbia Oakland Mills Road: 6900 block, Oakland Mills. Someone reported Nov. 3 that an air compressor, computer and computer software were stolen from a company's trailer. West Columbia Little Patuxent Parkway: 10300 block, Town Center. Someone pried open cash registers and stole an unspecified amount of money from the Sears department store at The Mall in Columbia on Nov. 6 or early Nov. 7. Wincopin Circle: 10200 block, Town Center.

David Palasits is not in denial about being a workaholic. A 45-year-old married father of three, Palasits readily admits to working 50 to 60 hours a week as manager of staff development and training for Catholic Relief Services Inc. in Baltimore. "Yes," Palasits conceded. "I can't say that I'm always proud of it." Along with the time he devotes to his job, the Columbia resident serves as president of the Parent-Teacher Student Association at Wilde Lake High School; coaches his 6-year-old son's soccer team; leads a Cub Scout troop with his wife, Rebecca; and reads at his church.

BOSTON -- For decades, critics of American culture have written about the sheer insanity of paying a teacher for one year's work what an athlete earns in a day. What utter madness underwrites a culture, these critics aver, that prizes entertainment over education, a society that literally values taking our minds off of important matters rather than learning these important matters in the first place. The utter irrationality of it all has recently been captured by the owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team who laments the egregiously high salaries he and his fellow owners pay to players.

The crime report is a sampling of crimes in Howard County compiled from police. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-313-3700. East Columbia Tamar Drive: 8200 block, Long Reach. Someone entered Kendall Ridge Pool late June 19 or early Thursday. West Columbia Avalanche Way: 11200 block, Hickory Ridge. Several pairs of tennis shoes were taken from a residence Sunday. Ellicott City/Elkridge Baltimore National Pike: 8800 block, Ellicott City. Money was taken from Cerando's restaurant Sunday or Monday.

Despite some boardroom soul-searching, the dampened economy seems to have done little to restrain spending at one of Baltimore's most lavish and expensive executive parties - the corporate village at the Preakness infield. Local businesses have been pressured more than ever this year to justify the sometimes six-figure cost of throwing an invitation-only fete at Pimlico Race Course during the Preakness Stakes. The one-day binge can cost more than the annual salary of an employee or two - an awkward check to write at a time when earnings are down and companies are cutting employees and slashing costs.

JUST SOUTH of Annapolis, in the thoroughly pleasant community of Bay Ridge, residents have come up with a plan to save one of the last open parcels of land along that section of the Chesapeake. Their scheme -- a complicated one that relies in part on money from the state's Open Space fund -- would halt development on a woodsy slope leading down to Black Walnut Creek. Today, the state Board of Public Works will take up the proposal, and although rejecting it would probably be worse than approving it, the Bay Ridge package offers a handy lesson in how not to carry out worthy policies.