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For the first time on record, bald eagles are nesting in Howard County, giving local bird watchers plenty of opportunity to spot a bird near extinction in 1973 because of the pesticide DDT.In the Triadelphia Watershed, a thin strip of forest following the Patuxent River and sandwiched between the suburbs of Baltimore and Washington, two adult eagles have built a nest and raised five offspring in three years."

As a senior at Poly in 2009, Antoine Goodson was a star quarterback garnering legitimate interest from Division I football programs, including Maryland, Georgia Tech and West Virginia. In his first two games that season, Goodson accounted for 635 total yards and eight touchdowns. But his dream turned into a nightmare less than a month into the season when he suffered a dislocated throwing shoulder; Goodson would eventually need surgery to repair ligament damage. After the injuries, not a single Division I program remained interested in him as a quarterback.

The newlyweds, a pair of bald eagles, found a dream house for the 1994 nesting season: a tall tree on the southern tip of Kent Island with a breathtaking view of the Chesapeake Bay.No sooner had the female settled down on her eggs when -- there goes the neighborhood! A construction crew began clearing land for a new house barely 100 yards away, part of a residential development planned for years.Bald eagles have flown back from the brink of extinction, as federal wildlife officials announced last week.

Federal wildlife officials are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person who killed a pair of bald eagles in Talbot County last Monday. The carcasses were found by a resident near the intersection of Kitty's Corner and State Road 328, just south of Tuckahoe Creek. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials believe the eagles were the victims of secondary poisoning after feeding on a dead fox. Bald eagles are no longer listed under the Endangered Species Act, but they are federally protected by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Maximum fines under these acts are $100,000 and $15,000 respectively, with possible imprisonment up to one year.

Gary M. Bald, head of the FBI's Baltimore office for the past 14 months, has been promoted to the agency's third-highest anti-terrorism post at headquarters in Washington. Jennifer Smith Love, one of Bald's assistants, has been named acting special agent in charge in Baltimore until a permanent replacement is found. Bald, a 26-year FBI veteran, started his new job yesterday as inspector-deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division. He was appointed Thursday. "It's one of those things when the director calls, you're here," Bald said, reflecting on how quickly the change in jobs occurred.

Gary M. Bald, a 25-year FBI veteran who oversaw the investigation of a rogue Boston agent who protected gangster informants from prosecution, has been tapped to head the FBI's Maryland-Delaware office, the bureau said yesterday. Bald, 48, is a Maryland native but has never worked from the FBI's Baltimore office. As special agent in charge, he will oversee more than 300 employees, including 200 special agents. He is expected to begin work in Baltimore next week. Bald was not available to comment yesterday.

NEW YORK - It was a hot day to learn how to fly. But two of the four baby bald eagles that were brought to Inwood Hill Park on June 20 were doing just that, having been released from their treehouse cage. "They're doing fine," Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe said at what he called a "coming-out party" to report on the eagles' progress not far from their leafy aerie at the northern tip of Manhattan. The eaglets, which were taken from nests in the wilds of Wisconsin, are the first to grow up in New York City since the 19th century, Parks Department officials said.

ON JULY 4 of next year, if all goes as federal wildlife officials plan, the bald eagle will be celebrated as officially "recovered," a triumph for the Endangered Species Act that protected it for 33 years.So why won't Virginia ornithologist Mitchell A. Byrd, dean of the Chesapeake's eagle researchers, be cheering?His reasons are caution about eagles, but also about assuming too readily what a sustainable balance between people and the rest of nature truly requires.Byrd and his colleagues at the Center for Conservation Biology, at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, agree that the bald eagle has made an inspiring comeback.

Severna Park's Brad Bald, a 6-foot-8, 215-pound senior center and an Archbishop Spalding transfer, emerged as the Anne Arundel County public schools league's top big man this season. Averaging 17.7 points and 12.8 rebounds with 18 double doubles, Bald scored in double digits in every game this season and turned the Falcons (15-7) into a contender for the 4A East region. He and his brother, junior Brendan Bald, who is averaging 11.9 points, transferred together at the end of last year to Severna Park and had an immediate impact.

It was a beautiful day to fly; the air was still and undisturbed beneath scalloped clouds.H97-99 rattled in the carry box. He was home: He could smell it; he wanted out. The moment the gate was lifted he hobbled onto the grass in that awkward way of great birds when aground, mightily annoyed. He wasted no time, he was up into the pearl sky beating toward the gray line of Port Deposit across the river, then turning sharply west. Within 15 seconds he was out of sight.How disappointing. There had been little time to regard the bald eagle's flight.

I was disturbed by your article about the Arapaho tribe seeking to claim more bald eagles for use in their religious ceremonies ("Arapaho tribe looks to claim more bald eagles," March 18). The tribe displays no religiosity or spirituality with this senseless superstition that does nothing but destroy innocent life. Once again, this is cruelty cloaked in religion. Joyce Robinson, Glen Burnie

Maryland Natural Resources Police is investigating the shooting death of a bald eagle that was found Friday in Allegany County near the Pennsylvania line. The mature eagle was found by a farm caretaker along the banks of Evitts Creek, just west of Rocky Gap State Park. "It was probably sitting in a tree when it was shot in the chest," said NRP Sgt. Art Windemuth. "It couldn't have been mistaken for anything else. It had the white head and tail and golden beak and talons. It was the American symbol in full plumage.

100 Years Ago Preachin' and a play In the bulletin section of the Times: "Emory M.E. church Sunday school 8:30 a.m. Preaching 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. by Rev. W.A. Koontz. There will be no services except Sunday school at Providence on Sunday afternoon. Preaching at 8 p.m. Song service at 7:30 p.m. The entertaining Comedy Drama, 'Diamonds and Hearts,' will be given by the Rockland Dramatic club in the large dining room of the Howard House Ellicott City Friday night, September first at 8 P..M.

The term "male pattern baldness" is familiar to most people. But many women, too, suffer from hair loss, says Lisa Earnest Ishii, assistant professor for facial plastic and reconstructive surgery in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's department of otolaryngology and neck surgery. Everyone "sheds" or loses some hair; what do doctors consider "hair loss" that could lead to thinning of the hair or balding? In general, hair loss greater than 100 hairs a day is considered abnormal. Otherwise, it is based upon what you see: Obviously, if you start to see the scalp showing through the hair, that is abnormal.

"Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair ... My hair like Jesus wore it, Hallelujah, I adore it." That ode to flowing locks, from the 1968 hippie musical Hair, would not have served yesterday as a rallying cry for the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at the Johns Hopkins University. Instead of clinging to vanity and visions of Samson-like valor, a half-dozen SigEp brothers submitted, with only minor bouts of trepidation, to a good shearing for a good cause. "It's going to be painful," said Christopher Viemeister, 20, the fraternity's philanthropy chairman, as he and his wavy brown mane prepared to go under the electric shaver.

Severna Park's Brad Bald, a 6-foot-8, 215-pound senior center and an Archbishop Spalding transfer, emerged as the Anne Arundel County public schools league's top big man this season. Averaging 17.7 points and 12.8 rebounds with 18 double doubles, Bald scored in double digits in every game this season and turned the Falcons (15-7) into a contender for the 4A East region. He and his brother, junior Brendan Bald, who is averaging 11.9 points, transferred together at the end of last year to Severna Park and had an immediate impact.

Seven young bald eagles mired in a sludge pond at a Charles County gravel quarry prompted a dramatic helicopter rescue yesterday by state and federal wildlife workers. Three of the eagles died and the other four were taken to the Baltimore Zoo hospital last night for emergency veterinary care. Rescuers revived the injured eagles by scraping mud from their nostrils, said John Porcari, spokesman for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. The three that died appeared to have suffocated, he said.

RAGGED POINT - The mother eagle was hissing, brandishing her talons and otherwise causing a ruckus - her way of letting Craig Koppie know she would have none of his plan to spirit one of her eaglets off to Vermont. But Koppie, an endangered species biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, would not be deterred. With help from his New England colleague, Michael Amaral, he would get the bird and two others to Vermont, the only state in the lower 48 without a breeding bald eagle population.

In a hot, packed gym in Cape St. Claire yesterday, host Broadneck got hot on defense and at the free-throw line in the final 1:23 to deal rival Severna Park a 57-51 loss in boys basketball. The No. 12 Bruins (11-2), who trailed 34-29 at the half, outscored the Falcons 28-17 over the last 16 minutes. Severna Park coach Paul Pellicani said it was Broadneck's "pressure on the perimeter" that denied the Falcons (7-6) in the second half. The Bruins made seven of eight free-throw attempts to close the game, with J.J. Hicks hitting three of four.

On an outing last November, my wife, Cathy, took this picture of a bald eagle near Conowingo Dam in Harford County. We love to watch birds and other wildlife and on that particular day we were taking a bike ride on the "Greenway" trail from Susquehanna State Park to the Conowingo Dam. Aberdeen Proving Ground, where I work, supposedly has an eagle population of more than 200. From what I understand, the eagles at Conowingo are actually APG residents who...