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Local lender in Chapter 11 Fieldstone Mortgage Co., the Columbia subprime lender that largely shut down in the midst of the nationwide credit crunch, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The company had more than $100 million in liabilities and less than that in assets, according to its Chapter 11 filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Baltimore. Cordish takes a partner Baltimore developer Cordish Co. is teaming up with Dennis Gomes, a prominent gaming industry executive, to run gaming projects in the United States and internationally.

A 55-year-old Edgewood man was in stable condition last night at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center after he was shot by an unknown gunman when he answered a knock at his door yesterday, state police said.Leroy M. Love of the 600 block of Lake Ave. was shot in the stomach about 2: 35 a.m., police said. The gunman drove off in a dark green 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier with Maryland tags GSK 110, and police were searching for the vehicle.Love was taken first to Fallston General Hospital, where his condition was stabilized before he was transferred to Bayview, police said.

An elderly man was killed and his wife seriously injured last night when they were attacked in their Northeast Baltimore home by an assailant they knew, police said.Detective Robert Bowman of the homicide unit said James Taylor, 85, of the 5600 block of Todd Ave. was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center about 9: 40 p.m. and '' Augusta Taylor, 76, was in guarded condition at Bayview with a stab wound to the upper torso.Bowman said Mr. Taylor was stabbed in the chest shortly after 8: LTC p.m. during an argument in the living room.

Police charged John Henry Harris yesterday in warrants with first-degree murder in the stabbing Sunday night of an elderly Northeast Baltimore man and the attempted murder of the man's wife.Harris, 56, of the 5600 block of Knell Ave. is being sought. He also is charged with stealing the couple's 1997 Toyota Camry with tags EKV 566, said Detective Robert Bowman of the homicide unit.Robert W. Weinhold Jr., a police spokesman, said the Camry was found yesterday evening in the 2000 block of Sinclair Lane by a Northeastern District officer who recognized the missing car and its license tags.

Police charged John Henry Harris yesterday in warrants with first-degree murder in the stabbing Sunday night of an elderly Northeast Baltimore man and the attempted murder of the man's wife.Harris, 56, of the 5600 block of Knell Ave. is being sought. He also is charged with stealing the couple's 1997 Toyota Camry with tags EXV 566, said Detective Robert Bowman of the homicide unit.Bowman said James Taylor, 85, of the 5600 block of Todd Ave., who was legally blind, was stabbed in the chest shortly after 8: 30 p.m. during an argument at his home and died at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Once again, I'm in the cold exam room. Awkwardly, I climb up on the table and pull my winter coat tight around me. My brain feels prickly, as if someone is stirring its sludgy contents with a spoon.I know enough to catch rest where I can get it. I curl up in a ball. The banging of construction workers and the rusty engine rumbling outside roll over me. I want to be in a warm bed with pale blue sheets, with rain hitting the windows and splashing in the gutters.But I am at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, waiting to be told, once again, that they can't find anything.

A state trooper and a motorist were slightly injured in a multivehicle mishap yesterday on Interstate 95 near Joppa.Trooper George Brantly had pulled onto the shoulder of the fast lane to help a stranded southbound motorist about 9 a.m., said Cpl. David Riggs of the Maryland State Police. Before Brantly could get out of the car, a driver swerved onto the shoulder and back into traffic, causing other cars to swerve.One car hit a bus, and the impact pushed the car, driven by Patricia Davis of Baltimore, into Brantly's cruiser.

Janet Goldstein took mass transit for years, but last summer she gave up on Baltimore buses that were no-shows, late, dirty and crowded. She reluctantly bought a car and joined the legions of commuters who clog the region's roadways during rush hours.Roger F. Trexler is her commuting opposite. A highway engineer, he drove himself to work for more than three decades. But a blizzard made that impossible one day last winter, so Trexler caught the light rail. He liked it so much he has been riding the rails ever since.

An overloaded extension cord caused the Monday night blaze that fatally injured a Dundalk man and his son, Baltimore County fire officials said yesterday.John Jack Dembeck, 47, who shared the rowhouse in the 100 block of Patapsco Ave. with his wife, Margaret, 40, and son Jason, 16, was found by firefighters in the first-floor dining room.Mr. Dembeck was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center of apparent smoke inhalation, said Battalion Chief Mark Hubbard, a Fire Department spokesman.

In the latest of several major changes, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System announced yesterday it was giving broad new authority to a man some believe could lead the system one day.Ronald R. Peterson, currently president of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, was elevated to the newly created position of executive vice president and chief operating officer of the system.He'll be second-in-command to Dr. James A. Block, president and chief executive officer, and run many day-to-day operations.

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Inc. has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle allegations that it filed false claims to federal health benefits programs for nearly two years, the U.S. attorney for Maryland announced Tuesday. From July 2005 though February 2007, Bayview employees claimed that patients were treated for ailments they did not have, including malnutrition and acute respiratory failure, according to the settlement agreement. The claims inflated the severity of the center's case mix and, therefore, the rates at which it was reimbursed under schedules set by the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission.

VALENTIN J. ROCCA, 44, died Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD. He is survived by longtime partner Laurie Taylor and son Joshua. Arrangements are incomplete.

The time is at hand for the Maryland Transit Administration to make a comprehensive review of the whole picture before finally selecting a "locally preferred alternative" for Baltimore's Red Line. Trolleys, or streetcars as we also call them, were the lifeblood of public transportation in Baltimore for many years. Like the buses of today, they were individual vehicles operating in traffic, serving the communities without taking out parking lanes or travel lanes. But the MTA has never proposed a streetcar line for service on Boston Street or anywhere else in the city.

Gregory F. Schaffer, president of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, has tried to corral smokers at outdoor shelters on the institution's sprawling campus. But smokers have chosen instead to light up on sidewalks and streets outside the hospital. Now, Mr. Schaffer is taking a different approach. He is supporting a proposed law that would ban smoking outside Baltimore hospitals. Secondhand smoke can be lethal, and for a medical center that has treated nearly 700 outpatients at its Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in a recent 12-month period, a ban coincides with Bayview's mission.

Two firefighters were injured yesterday while fighting a fire in a vacant two-story rowhouse in West Baltimore, a Fire Department spokesman said. The fire was reported about 3:20 a.m. in the 1900 block of Lauretta Ave., near Franklin and Monroe streets, and was quickly extinguished, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, the spokesman. Cartwright said one firefighter suffered second-degree burns to both legs and was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; his condition is not considered life-threatening.

A Harford County teenager died Friday at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore from injuries suffered in a single-vehicle accident Dec. 23 in Bel Air, the county sheriff's office said in a news release. Two passengers in the car he was driving were injured and a third escaped injury. Kevin Matthew Rutherford, 17, of the 2200 block of Shetland Way in Bel Air was driving a 2004 Isuzu Ascender sport utility vehicle north on West Ring Factory Road near Somerville Road about 3:15 p.m. at an excessive speed during a heavy rain when he lost control of the vehicle and it crashed into trees along the roadway, said Sgt. Christina Presberry in the release.

Local lender in Chapter 11 Fieldstone Mortgage Co., the Columbia subprime lender that largely shut down in the midst of the nationwide credit crunch, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The company had more than $100 million in liabilities and less than that in assets, according to its Chapter 11 filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Baltimore. Cordish takes a partner Baltimore developer Cordish Co. is teaming up with Dennis Gomes, a prominent gaming industry executive, to run gaming projects in the United States and internationally.

Patient First, an urgent care chain, opens a new center this morning on the campus of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center -- its first facility on the grounds of a hospital and its first in Baltimore City. Bayview sought out Patient First, seeing it not as competition but as a mechanism to unclog its crowded emergency department. The Bayview opening heralds a new burst of growth for Patient First, which opened five urgent care centers in the Baltimore area a decade ago but had not built any since.

The year 2035 might seem like a long way off, but the prospect that Baltimore may only get one new transit line - the long-promised Red Line from Woodlawn to Bayview - between now and then makes it seem suddenly much closer. At least that's a concern raised by the actions of the Baltimore Regional Transportation Board, which is set tomorrow to adopt a long-term transportation plan that's as notable for what it lacks as for what it includes. Does anyone recall Baltimore's Green Line? That's the proposal to extend transit service from the existing subway stop at Johns Hopkins Hospital northeast to Morgan State University and ultimately to White Marsh.

An Edgewood man was in critical condition last night after he was shot in the abdomen, authorities said. Shortly after 6 p.m., a resident entered a sheriff's office in Edgewood to report that a man had been shot down the street, said Sgt. Christina Presberry, a spokeswoman for the Harford County's Sheriff's Office. A sheriff's deputy went to the scene and found a man lying on the road with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, she said. The victim was flown to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where he was being treated last night, Presberry said.