Ashburton

Baltimore City Southwestern District Robbery: A man who implied he was armed with a handgun robbed the 7-Eleven store in the 500 block of Swann Ave. of an undisclosed sum of money Friday. Stolen vehicle: A 1994 Dodge Intrepid with tags AYA 084 was stolen during the weekend in the 1700 block of Ashburton St. Stolen car: A green 2000 Plymouth Neon with tags HFJ 210 was stolen Saturday in the 2300 block of Elsinore Ave. Southern District Theft: A compact disc changer, golf clubs and 30 compact discs - all valued at $2,100 - were stolen Sunday from a 1999 Ford Explorer parked in the 400 block of Sanders St. Theft from vehicle: A compact disc player and an amplifier - all valued at more than $600 - were stolen Sunday from a truck parked in the 1600 block of S. Hanover St.

An unidentified man died last night after he was shot in the 1100 block of Ashburton St. in Rosemont. Police said officers responded to the shooting about 8 p.m. and discovered the man in a car behind a house. He was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died a short time later. In another incident, an unidentified man was in serious condition last night at Shock Trauma after he was shot outside Amko Liquors in the 2800 block of Edmondson Ave. in Southwest Baltimore. Police said the man stumbled into the store and collapsed after he was shot in the leg about 7: 45 p.m.

City police today were investigating two slayings.The latest occurred about 9:40 last night on North Durham Street in East Baltimore.Police said Patrick K. Douglas, 22, of the 3000 block of McElderry St., was talking to three men in the 1800 block of N. Durham St.Witnesses said one of the men fired at least one shot that struck Mr. Douglas in the back as he ran. Then the gunman shot him two more times, witnesses said.Mr. Douglas died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said.Yesterday evening, Gregory Turnipseed, 22, of the 1800 block of Ashburton St., was fatally shot while seated inside a car with three other people in the 2900 block of Garrison Blvd.

A man in his 30s was shot numerous times while riding in a car yesterday and died minutes after a friend drove him to Liberty Medical Center in the bullet-riddled automobile, police said.Police withheld the victim's name pending notification of his relatives. He was rushed into the hospital emergency room, where he was pronounced dead, police said. At least five bullet holes were visible on the car's windshield.The shooting occurred shortly before 2 p.m. at West North Avenue and Ashburton Street, where an unidentified man opened fire on the car, police said.

Naomi C. Myers, a former longtime volunteer at Bon Secours Hospital and a centenarian, died Sunday from complications of dementia at Keswick Multi-Care Center in Roland Park. She was 102. The former Naomi Catherine Newman was born in Baltimore and raised in the city's Carroll neighborhood. She was a 1927 graduate of Frederick Douglass High School and studied nursing at night at her former high school. Mrs. Myers worked for 16 years as a hand presser at Miller & Baker, a uniform company, and later was in housekeeping for 20 years at the old Pittsburgh Plate Glass on Guilford Avenue.

Ask just about anyone in Ashburton about resident Stuart O. Simms, and almost uniformly they'll answer with accolades about his character and accomplishments. Ask whether Simms' selection as Douglas M. Duncan's running mate in September's Democratic gubernatorial primary against Mayor Martin O'Malley and Prince George's County state Del. Anthony G. Brown will influence their vote, and the response is more mixed. Some, already favoring or leaning toward the Montgomery County executive, say Simms' presence on Duncan's ticket helps reaffirm their choice.

Moving to end long-running water pollution problems in Baltimore, federal and state officials are threatening to sue the city for fouling the harbor and Gwynns Falls with tainted wastewater from two major municipal facilities.In a letter April 28 to Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, the U.S. Justice Department said the Ashburton drinking-water filtration plant in West Baltimore and the Patapsco sewage-treatment plant in South Baltimore repeatedly have discharged pollutants for the past four to five years.

Are you looking to buy a house in Northwest Baltimore? Do you work for the city?Then Housing Commissioner Daniel P. Henson III wants to talk to you.The housing chief is accepting applications for a home-buying incentive program that offers grants and low-interest loans to teachers, police officers and firefighters who buy their first homes in Ashburton, East Arlington or Callaway-Garrison, communities of large frame houses and brick rowhouses.Prices in those neighborhoods, where about 40 homes are on the market, range from $75,000 to $125,000, Henson said.

The weekend warriors were already making their New Year's Eve plans yesterday, but that didn't mean stocking up on bubbly and brewski. It meant cranking up a bunch of telescoping antennae throughout Baltimore and beyond.The warriors are members of Company B, 129th Signal Battalion, of the Maryland National Guard. They occupied sites like the soccer field at Sudbrook Magnet Middle School in Baltimore County and the badly eroded baseball diamond next to Lake Ashburton in West Baltimore.Those skinny antennae poking up in the sky will be a crucial part of the communications system employed as 1999 turns into 2000.

Only the onset of Alzheimer's disease managed to move Miriam S. Konigsberg from her Ashburton home, and not the tides of ethnic change that had swept through the Northwest Baltimore neighborhood where she had lived for more than 60 years. Mrs. Konigsberg, who was 96, died from the disease Saturday at the Stoneleigh home of a daughter. Born and raised in Baltimore, the former Miriam Schwartzman was a 1927 graduate of Western High School. "She worked one day at Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. and for a little while at O'Neill's Department Store," said daughter Janis K. Ellis of Stoneleigh.