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Officials at Arlington International Racecourse announced yesterday that the Illinois track will be open next year for a scaled-down 55-day summer meet starting June 23.A week ago, Dick Duchossois, owner of the lavishly appointed track and site of the Arlington Million turf race, said he was closing the track's doors because it would lose too much money next year when it would have to compete with a recently opened riverboat casino about 20 miles away in...

Heavy Seas Alehouse is opening a second location in Rosslyn, Va. The new Heavy Seas will occupy nearly 6,000 square feet at the base of an office tower at 1501 Wilson Boulevard in Rosslyn, two doors down from Roti Mediterranean Grill. The restaurant is scheduled to open later this year. Heavy Seas Alehouse is part of $2.5 million in capital improvements planned to renovate the lobbies and retail spaces at 1501 and 1515 Wilson Boulevard, according to a statement released by Monday Properties, the Arlington, Virginia-based real estate investment firm that manages the properties.

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An elementary school student threatened a schoolmate with a bb gun during a morning school bus ride Wednesday in Northwest Baltimore, according to a city schools spokeswoman. Both students were boys, on a bus bound for Arlington Elementary School, said Edie House Foster, the spokeswoman. The threat was reported to school officials, and an investigation was launched by school police. House Foster said she did not know who reported the threat, nor did she know whether school police were able to find the weapon involved.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. -- The close-out sale began Wednesday. Employees of Arlington International Racecourse were offered T-shirts, artwork, seat cushions and table settings at rock-bottom prices.Today, the items become valuable only as souvenirs. Arlington, one of the grandest and most gracious racetracks in the country, closes after 70 years of charm, tragedy, rebirth and decline.Situated 25 miles northwest of downtown Chicago, Arlington symbolized everything good about horse racing: a palatial facility where you didn't find a losing ticket on the floor, innovative management and marketing, friendly employees and young, upscale fans.

NEW YORK -- Unbridled's Song, star-crossed all year with injuries and ailments, was declared sound yesterday and was booked immediately for a flight to Chicago tomorrow on the same airplane with Cigar. And the two charismatic horses will meet Saturday at Arlington International Racecourse when Cigar tries to match Citation's record of 16 consecutive victories.The confrontation between the 3-year-old mystery horse and the 6-year-old superhorse, who hasn't lost a race in 20 months, became a certainty when Dr. Jud Butler removed the patch from Unbridled's Song's left front ankle and gave his approval.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- If not for Washington's train system and the vision of community leaders in the 1970s, Arlington might be nothing more than a former suburb swallowed by sprawl. Instead, it is the envy of its Northern Virginia neighbors, with the lowest property tax rate and highest office occupancy in the region. It has sought-after neighborhoods and an economy so sound it has lowered taxes twice in two years. Less than 20 miles away, Loudoun County, once a sleepy farming community, is reacting to a wave of development that took it by surprise in the mid-1990s and has forced its property tax rate to nearly double in 10 years.

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The best-of-five Division Series, still so new that no one knows which cliches to use after each game, is all about home-field advantage.The Texas Rangers split the first two games at Yankee Stadium, so -- in spite of their disappointing extra-inning loss on Wednesday night -- they have a significant edge going into Game 3 tonight at The Ballpark in Arlington.They know it. The Yankees know it. The question is how it plays in the minds of the players on both clubs and how that might affect the outcome of this best-of-five opening round of the playoffs.

ARLINGTON, Texas - Several hours before he stepped onto the grass at Ameriquest Field in Arlington in a New York Yankees uniform for the first time, superstar Alex Rodriguez pondered an interesting question. If you were a Texas Rangers fan, someone asked, would you boo you? "No, I wouldn't boo me," Rodriguez said, "simply because I came here and played the best baseball I could and won an MVP and two Gold Gloves and a Player of the Year Award. The way I played between the lines ... that was special."

ELKRIDGE -- Over the bumps and up the treacherous hills of U.S. Highway 1, they pulled it -- a 2,000-pound stone memorial to those who never held a gun, but died in battle. It is for the civilian victims of wars all over the world.The granite marker rests atop a 1,500-pound wheeled contraption that flies the American flag on its back and totes a boombox blasting Edwin Starr's "War: What is it Good For? (Absolutely Nothing)."A project of The Peace Abbey, an anti-war organization and school, and the Life Experience school, both in Sherborn, Mass.

Baltimore prep basketball star Aquille Carr is on the move again, this time back to Maryland, where he plans to play his senior season at Princeton Day Academy in Beltsville, said the school's coach, Van Whitfield. Just last week, the two-time Baltimore Sun All-Metro Player of the Year enrolled at Arlington Country Day, a private basketball power in Jacksonville, Fla., according to that school's coach, Rex Morgan. But Whitfield said Carr merely visited Arlington Country Day before deciding it was too far from home.

- Left-hander Joe Saunders was not the popular choice to get the Orioles' first postseason start in 15 years and to try and guide the club back to Baltimore for its first home playoff contest since Game 6 of the 1997 American League Championship Series. Saunders has been with the Orioles for barely a month. The 31-year-old veteran had never won a playoff game in four previous attempts. And he's been on the ugly side of awful for most of his career against the Texas Rangers, including a dismal 0-6 record and a 9.38 ERA in his starts at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

Orioles owner Peter Angelos did not make the trip to Arlington, Texas, for Friday night's game between the Orioles and Texas Rangers. He instead watched it from Café Troia, according to the Towson restaurant's owner. "He was here last night. He's here a lot," said owner Carol Troia. "When he comes in, he likes to watch the game. " Angelos appeared to be happy following the win and was congratulated by those around him. "He's not overly ecstatic. But he was happy. And then he went home," Troia said.

This isn't the way the Orioles wanted it - forced to go through Arlington for a one-game wild card playoff to get to the American League Division Series - but I like the O's chances in Texas on Friday night. Maybe it's delirium from a lack of sleep -- my flight leaves for Texas in about five hours -- but I've gotta think that Orioles manager Buck Showalter loves this kind of winner-take-all matchup. All signs point to Showalter turning to rookie right-hander Steve Johnson to start Friday's game.

A Navy SEAL from Edgewater is to be laid to rest this week at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Patrick D. Feeks of Edgewater was among seven Americans and four Afghans killed when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan, during a firefight with insurgents last month. The Aug.16 incident was one of the deadliest air disasters in the nearly 11-year-old war. The Taliban claimed responsibility for shooting down the helicopter.

Maj. Robert J. Marchanti II, 48, was buried Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery. Marchanti, a 25-year member of the Maryland National Guard, was one of two officers killed last month in Afghanistan. Violence erupted in Kabul, where Marchanti was stationed, when it was revealed that copies of the Quran had been burned at a NATO base in Bagram. The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the deaths were punishment for burning the Muslim holy book. Gov. Martin O'Malley ordered U.S. and Maryland flags flown at half-staff Tuesday in Marchanti's memory.

OLD PLANTATION CREEK, Va. -- It must have been a sight -- three stories of brick and mortar towering above the marshes and flat, sandy fields here where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic. In the mid-1670s, a time when even the well-to-do were scratching to make a stake in the Virginia Colony, wealthy planter and tobacco merchant John Custis II outdid his fellow gentry, building a home historians say was the "most magnificent in the Chesapeake" on an isolated spot near the southern tip of Virginia's Eastern Shore.

Access Worldwide Communications Inc., a company that specializes in marketing services, said yesterday that it moved the headquarters and call center of its TelAc Teleservices Group from Arlington, Va., to Hyattsville in Prince George's County. The 24,000-square-foot headquarters and telemarketing center in Hyattsville employs 500. The move from Virginia to Maryland was completed Tuesday. "It was a pretty smooth transition," said Andrea Greenan, the company's director of investor relations.

Mourners of Airman 1st Class Matthew Ryan Seidler said the Westminster man had followed his dream of serving his country, found a band of brothers in the Air Force and died protecting his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan. "When we talked to him New Year's Day, it was the happiest that he had ever been in his life," his father, Marc Seidler, told the more than 500 mourners who filled the Sol Levinson & Bros. funeral home Tuesday in Pikesville. "He loved the Air Force. " Matthew Seidler, an explosive ordnance disposal apprentice, was killed Jan. 5 by a bomb in Helmand province.

Just about a year ago, when the Orioles were in town to play the Texas Rangers in the series prior to the All-Star Break, Buck Showalter was contemplating whether he should return to the game as Orioles manager. He even had a clandestine meeting near Dallas with Andy MacPhail , the club's president of baseball operations, while the Orioles were in the midst of sweeping the Rangers in a four-game series. When the Orioles played at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on Monday night for the first time since that fateful meeting, Showalter was in the visiting dugout.