Baltimore Washington Parkway

The Federal Highway Administration is working to correct road settlement on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Prince George's County. One lane on the northbound and southbound sides of the parkway at the Route 197 interchange is likely to be closed this week. Closures will be from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. southbound through Friday; 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. northbound through Friday; and 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. in both directions Saturday. Delays should be expected southbound below Route 198 and northbound above the Capital Beltway.

The word somata refers to the body or the physical part of an organism as distinguished from the mind or the soul. "Somata" is also the title of a show of works by Maria Anasazi at Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, but the description of her work makes it sound as much about the mind as the body.She takes old books and folds and adds to them to create new works that combine the books and aspects of her own history. She calls her works "containers of memory of some sensual feeling that has long been forgotten."

One man was killed and a Timonium man was seriously injured in a crash involving two motorcycles on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway near the Baltimore Beltway yesterday afternoon, authorities said. The accident occurred about 5 p.m. as the two motorcycles were leaving the inner loop of Interstate 695 onto the northbound lanes of the parkway, Maryland State Police said. One driver was pronounced dead at the scene. He was not identified last night pending notification of his relatives.

A Jessup man was shot in the leg Tuesday night as he walked to his car in the 1500 block of W. Nursery Road, county police said.Raymond Antoine Griggs, 33, was approached about 10 p.m. by a man who asked for a ride. Before Mr. Griggs could answer, the man pulled out a small-caliber revolver and fired two shots, one bullet hitting the victim in the upper right thigh, police said.The gunman ran into some woods toward the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and escaped. Mr. Griggs went into an office building in the same block and told a security guard he had been shot, police said.

Three of four northbound lanes on I-95 will be closed between Route 216 and Route 32 overnight Saturday as crews work to repair a bridge joint, the State Highway Administration said. Between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Saturday one lane will be closed; between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. two; and between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. Sunday three lanes will be closed. During that time crews will be doing emergency repair work on the Middle Patuxent River Bridge, officials said. Alternative routes include US 1 (Washington Boulevard)

A 27-year-old Lansdowne man has been charged with rape in an attack last month of a woman on a path leading to a footbridge over the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, police said yesterday. Michael Roland Hitchens of the 800 block of Rambo Court was arrested Thursday at the Baltimore County Detention Center, where he was being held on an unrelated charge, police said. He is charged with first-degree rape, armed robbery and false imprisonment in the Nov. 2 attack of a woman who was grabbed while approaching the footbridge near the 300 block of Freeway in Lansdowne, forced into a wooded area and raped, police said.

Construction on a new eastbound Route 32 bridge across the Baltimore-Washington Parkway should begin next week, forcing some motorists todetour around the intersection.The bridge is part of Gov. William Donald Schaefer's transportation package, financed by motor vehiclefee increases approved by the General Assembly last June. Workers will begin building new ramps to improve access to the parkway as well."It's going to take care of a lot of that left-turn movement off 32," said State Highway Administration spokesman Doug Rose.

A man with a gun tried to rob a Wendy's restaurant in Laurel Saturday night but left when an employee told him the safe could not be opened, according to Anne Arundel County police. Police said the incident occurred about 10:20 at the restaurant in the 3500 block of Russett Green East, which in a sprawling housing development near Route 198 and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Police said Sunday that the man did wanted money from the safe and did not take any from the cash drawers.

Maryland State Police and city police officers arrested a second suspect last night in the killing of a man whose body was found in the trunk of a burning car Wednesday in Linthicum. Robert Edward Speake, 18, of the 4900 block of Brookwood Road in Brooklyn was arrested about 7 p.m. after barricading himself in a house on the property of the McLean Construction Co. in the 2000 block of Benhill Ave. in Curtis Bay, state police said. A tip led to Speake's arrest. Speake and a second man, Michael P. Smith, 28, of Glen Burnie, who was arrested earlier, are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Philliip Airey, 36, of Glen Burnie.

Two Landover brothers were arrested Saturday and charged with stealing tennis rackets and computer equipment from two Glen Burnie stores after police caught them in a chase along Ritchie Highway and the Baltimore Beltway to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, county police said.Jason Stevenson, 35, and Herbert Stevenson, 30, both of the 1200 block of Gondar Ave. were charged with felony theft. Jason Stevenson also was charged with assault and battery and arrested on five outstanding arrest warrants from other jurisdictions.