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Virginia B. Machovec, a retired city public school cafeteria cashier and longtime hospital volunteer, died Wednesday of pneumonia at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. She was 92. The daughter of a Cross Street Market worker and a homemaker, Virginia Baxter Edwards was born and raised in South Baltimore, where she graduated from Southern High School. In 1947, she married Lawrence J. Machovec Sr., a highly decorated World War II veteran who later became a Baltimore police officer.

Virginia B. Machovec, a retired city public school cafeteria cashier and longtime hospital volunteer, died Wednesday of pneumonia at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. She was 92. The daughter of a Cross Street Market worker and a homemaker, Virginia Baxter Edwards was born and raised in South Baltimore, where she graduated from Southern High School. In 1947, she married Lawrence J. Machovec Sr., a highly decorated World War II veteran who later became a Baltimore police officer.

A Glen Burnie man was seriously injured yesterday after a fire broke out in a locked bedroom early yesterday, Anne Arundel County fire officials said. Byung Joung Lee had burns over 80 percent of his body but escaped the house in the 7800 block of Ritchie Highway with his father's help, said Lt. George Wiseman, a Fire Department spokesman. He was in critical condition yesterday at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Three people were taken to Baltimore trauma centers last weekend after being injured in two separate crashes. The first was last Friday, when a car and delivery truck collided at the intersection of Juniata and Superior streets. The second was just about 24 hours later on Route 155 near Graceview Drive. In the first, Chester James Dawson, 80, of the 400 block of South Tollgate Road in Bel Air, driving a Subaru Forrester, turned into a box delivery truck stopped and waiting to turn onto Superior Street to go to Route 155. Dawson's car hit the delivery truck right in the middle and went underneath.

A Baltimore County man has been arrested and charged in the beating death this month of a man found by firefighters in his burning Mount Vernon apartment, police said. Zukael Stephens of the first block of Stockmill Road near Randallstown was arrested Friday in an apartment in the 6700 block of Townbrook Drive in Woodlawn, said Detective John Madigan of the Regional Warrant Apprehension Task Force. Stephens, 29, is accused of fatally beating Marcus Rogers, 26, of the 1010 Regency Apartments in the 1000 block of St. Paul St. on the night of Oct. 11 and setting Rogers and his apartment on fire cover up the attack, police said.

An 8-year-old Harford County boy was severely burned yesterday after playing with gasoline and matches near his Joppa home, a state fire official said.William Edward Moore II received second- and third-degree burns over 40 percent of his body after he and at least one other child took charcoal briquettes and gasoline into the woods near his home, said W. Faron Taylor, Deputy State Fire Marshal.The boy was in serious but stable condition at the Baltimore Regional Burn Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center last night.

A 13-year-old Middle River boy suffered burns on his stomach and hands yesterday when he mixed pool chemicals and inadvertently formed a volatile brew, Baltimore County fire officials said.Josh Guido apparently was playing with chlorine and another, unidentified chemical shortly after 1: 30 p.m. in the 200 block of Ballard Ave. when the chemicals reacted and splashed on him, said Battalion Chief Patrick Kelly.The boy was in stable condition with first- and second-degree burns yesterday in the pediatric burns unit at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

A woman died when her vehicle and a Maryland Transit Administration bus collided at an East Baltimore intersection yesterday morning, a fire official said. The woman was driving on Pulaski Highway when her Honda sport utility vehicle collided with a bus heading north on Kresson Street about 8:15 a.m., said Chief Kevin Cartwright. The woman, who was not identified, was dead at the scene. The bus driver was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center with minor injuries.

A tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 95 in Southeast Baltimore about 3:30 p.m. yesterday, shutting down several southbound lanes for more than four hours and backing up rush-hour traffic for more than two miles, officials said. The accident occurred in the left lane, just south of the Eastern Avenue overpass, according to Cpl. Jonathan Green of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Emergency crews had to cut into the overturned cab of the tractor to free the driver, who was taken to nearby Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center for treatment of injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening, Green said.

A two-alarm fire caused extensive damage to a South Baltimore rowhouse last night and injured its five occupants, including two children, police said.The fire, which was reported about 9:50 p.m., started on the first floor of a two-story rowhouse in the 1200 block of Glyndon St. It was contained about 10:20 p.m.Three people were taken to local hospitals with moderate injuries and two others were taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center with burns.

Dr. Chi-Tsung Su, a plastic surgeon and teacher who helped establish the prominence of the burn center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, died of cancer Dec. 27 at his Towson home. He was 74. Born in Taiwan, he earned a medical degree at the National Taiwan University. He moved to Baltimore in 1964 and became a Union Memorial Hospital surgical intern and its chief resident. Among his teachers was Dr. Bowdoin Davis, a plastic surgeon whose father, Dr. John Staige Davis, wrote a 1919 plastic surgery textbook, the first U.S. text in the field.

A homeless man suffered second and third degree burns that covered about 75 percent of his body after he caught fire Wednesday afternoon outside the Canton Safeway supermarket, fire officials said. Firefighters were called to the 2600 block of Boston Street about 1:45 p.m. for reports of a brush fire when they found the unidentified man who had caught fire, said Kevin Cartwright, a fire department spokesman. The unidentified man was taken to Bayview Medical Center, where he remains in serious condition, Cartwright said.

Baltimore County police have arrested and charged as an adult a 15-year-old Essex teen they say shot and killed an acquaintance Friday. Corey Daniel Powell, 15, of the 1000 block of Foxcroft Lane, was charged with first-degree murder Saturday in the shooting death of Jordan Canada, 17. Police found Canada, also of Essex, shot outside an home Friday morning in the 900 block of Sandalwood Road, police said. He had suffered a gunshot wound to the upper torso, said Cpl. Mike Hill, spokesman for the Baltimore County Police Department.

A man was killed early Sunday morning in what police are calling an accidental shooting in the 400 block of S. Glover St. Police do not have a positive identification of the man, who was driven by a friend to Bayview Medical Center, where he died, city police spokesman Donny Moses said. The victim, who as of last night had not been identified, was with two of his friends when a gun went off and the man was shot in the side, Moses said. Police arrested the friend they believe fired the gun, Moses said.

About 10 percent of Americans may at some point develop kidney stones, says Brian R. Matlaga, director of stone disease at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Kidney stones, which are hard masses of crystals that form within the urinary tract, can cause extreme pain as they pass out of the body, infection and, in some cases, can block the ureter. What are kidney stones? Everyone's urine contains some crystals, but a stone occurs when these crystals bind together and aggregate until they achieve a size at which [the mass formed]

Nickolas G. Staffa, a retired autoworker and longtime Dundalk resident, died Sunday of complications from an infection at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He was 91. Mr. Staffa was born in Baltimore, the son of immigrant parents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and was raised in Locust Point. He attended Polytechnic Institute. He became an assembly line worker at General Motor's old Broening Highway plant in 1935 and was promoted to upholsterer and repairman. He was later trained as a toolmaker, a position he held until he retired in 1975.

The body of a 16-year-old boy was found at the bottom of a swimming pool last night at the Garden Village Apartments in Northeast Baltimore, an apparent drowning victim, city police said. Police received a call about 9 p.m. that juveniles had climbed a fence surrounding the apartment complex pool in the 5500 block of Denview Way. When they arrived, officers discovered the body. The victim -- whose name was not immediately available -- had no heartbeat and was not breathing, said Kevin Cartwright, a city Fire Department spokesman.

A man was fatally shot last night on a street in East Baltimore, bringing the city's homicide toll this year to 271 - two more than for all of 2005, police said. Southeastern District officers responding to a shooting in the first block of N. Clinton St. about 8:35 p.m. found the victim lying on the pavement, and bleeding from at least one wound to the face, said Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. The victim, whose name was withheld pending notification of family members, died a short time later at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, police said.

Mark B. Hopkins, an information systems executive who had been a Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center vice president, died of cancer Tuesday at Sinai Hospital. The Mount Washington resident was 47. "He knew how a hospital worked. He was smart and had a lot of common sense," said Gregory Schaffer, president of Hopkins Bayview. "He was an asset to the hospital and was instrumental in building our clinical information system." Born in Baltimore and raised in Dallas, Texas, he returned to the Baltimore area and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in information systems management at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.