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Man caught in chase faces drug charges Anne Arundel County sheriff's deputies trying to serve a warrant in Annapolis instead arrested another man on drug charges, the sheriff's office said yesterday. The deputies were looking for Deon Mitchell Brown on Clay Street about 5 p.m. Oct. 3 when they saw someone they thought looked like him and approached. The man fled but was quickly caught after a chase. He identified himself as Samuel Joyce at the county police department's Southern District station, where deputies said they recovered 12 rocks of crack cocaine from him. Joyce was charged with drug possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.

One man was killed and another was seriously injured yesterday morning in Highland when two cars collided on Route 108 near the Howard-Montgomery County line.Police said a green 1995 Mercury Mystique driven by Manuel Antonio Miranda, 20, of Columbia was traveling westbound on Route 108 at 8: 30 a.m. when it crossed the median, striking a red 1987 BMW head-on.Police said that the driver of the BMW, Henry Godfrey Alley III, 52, of Olney, was pronounced dead at the scene. Miranda was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was listed in serious condition.

LONDON -- Guten Morgen.That was a greeting among some workers at the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars factory in Crewe in central England yesterday after the announcement that the maker of the luxury car that's as British as royalty and Big Ben will be taken over by Germany's BMW."People are expressing a sense of regret, and that's understandable," said Steve Taylor, a union leader at the factory where the luxury cars for the rich and powerful are still handcrafted."At the end of the day, we need the investment," Taylor added.

Despite rain and dreary skies, about 10,000 people walked and ran through downtown Baltimore yesterday, raising $550,000 to help find a cure for breast cancer."

Social calendarOct. 8: Second annual "Taste of Hampden" benefits the Hampden Family Center. 1104 W. 36th St. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. $25 a person. Features food from neighborhood eateries. Call 410-467-8710.Oct. 8: Sixth annual crab feast for the benefit of Manna House, which offers a soup kitchen, transitional housing and other programs for the poor. At Jimmy's Famous Seafood, 6526 Holabird Ave. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tickets $45. Call 410-889-3001.Oct. 9: 29th annual Grand Opera Ball celebrates "A Magnificent Italian Circus!"

Baltimore County police were questioning a man yesterday who they say tried to buy a car from Russell BMW in Catonsville while pretending to be the son of former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder.The man, believed to be 29 years old, was being questioned at White Marsh Precinct, and investigators were trying to verify his identity through fingerprints, said police spokesman Sgt. Kevin B. Novak.The man had not been charged as of last night.According to police, a man identifying himself as Eric Wilder also had been showing up at Jerry's Toyota on Belair Road since Feb. 20 and taking cars for test drives.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Howard County.Elkridge: 7700 Washington Blvd.: Police arrested a man in a mobile home burglary at 8: 20 p.m. Thursday. Two lamps were stolen. Wendell Durant, 40, of no fixed address, was charged with theft.Long Reach: 9100 block of Red Branch Road: Someone tried to steal a 1988 BMW 735IL and a 1984 BMW 528I at 11: 36 a.m. Thursday.Pub Date: 11/10/97

IN A CASE involving a BMW damaged in shipping, then repainted and sold as new, the Supreme Court on May 20 gave the political right one of its fondest wishes -- tougher, but still unclear, limits on punitive damages in product-liability cases.Business has complained that the prospect of punitive awards like the $4 million an Alabama court awarded in BMW of North America v. Gore stifled innovation, especially drug research.Consumer activists say punitive awards were never a threat to any but the most flagrant lawbreakers -- notably asbestos companies -- so they insist the case will change little, especially in Maryland, whose law makes it harder to get punitive awards than almost any other state.

The man whose body was found with his feet encased in 60 pounds of concrete and partially submerged in the Patapsco River was identified by Baltimore police yesterday. He had been convicted of drug offenses.Homicide Detective David Neverdon said Kim Landell Robinson, 30, of the 2900 block of The Alameda "was shot in the back of the head and probably placed in a sitting position while his feet were held in a 5-gallon bucket filled with wet concrete. "Neverdon said Robinson's body was taken to the 1500 block of Warner St. in South Baltimore and rolled down a 10-foot embankment into a tributary of the Middle Branch of the Patapsco.

The gunman who killed a 23-year-old Towson State University student Saturday morning shot her once in the back by firing through the rear passenger window of her car, then apparently followed her in a BMW as she drove across the road to the York Road Plaza parking lot and died, police said yesterday.The body of Joann E. "Jody" LeCornu was discovered in her white Honda Civic after a delivery crew at the plaza's Giant food store reported hearing gunshots at 3:41 a.m.Baltimore County police say Ms. LeCornu's purse was not in the car, leading them to suspect robbery as a motive, said Capt.

Delphi steering division cutting nearly 800 jobs BUENA VISTA TOWNSHIP, Mich.: Nearly 800 jobs are being eliminated at the steering division of Delphi Corp. near Saginaw, Mich. The cuts announced yesterday are hitting 425 hourly workers and 350 employees who are on salary at the Delphi complex in Buena Vista Township. They will kick in March 1. "We've anticipated this for some time," said Mike Hanley, president of United Auto Workers Local 699. Delphi has had temporary furloughs since the start of the year, he told The Saginaw News.

Howard County police yesterday were investigating a head-on collision that killed one person and left five others injured Thursday night. Milton Stanley Bowens Sr., 64, died after the Ford Explorer he was was driving collided with a BMW on Frederick Road near East Daisy Road in Lisbon, according to police. Bowens, of the 1100 block of Shaffersville Road in the Howard County portion of Mount Airy, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 7:30 p.m. accident. The three passengers in the Explorer were hospitalized with injuries: Adrienne Jones, 44, who also lives in the 1100 block of Shaffersville Road; Corin Disney, 16; and Jasmin Disney, 13. Police believe Jones is the mother of the girls but could not confirm an address for the teens.

One person was killed and five others injured last night after a sport utility vehicle and a sports car crashed head-on on a road in Woodbine, a Howard County police spokeswoman said. About 7:30 p.m., a 2006 BMW being driven eastbound at a high rate of speed on Route 144 near East Daisy Road crossed the double yellow line more than once while passing other vehicles, said Cpl. Jen Reidy. The BMW entered the westbound lane and crashed into the SUV, the spokeswoman said. Reidy said the 64-year-old man driving the sport utility vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene.

In a moment, we will get to the red BMW that tried some funny business on a busy mountain road and how we almost took care of this guy - took care of him good, too, although, no, not in a Paulie Walnuts way or anything. But first a little background: On the days when I can still afford to put gas in the car, I like to go barreling down the highway with the radio blasting, the wind rustling through my impressive helmet of gray hair, the open road stretched out before me like a shimmering black ribbon - until we come to a screeching halt at a construction backup.

The investigation into a breakfast-time armed robbery of a fast-food restaurant led officers yesterday to the Baltimore police academy, where, authorities said, a department trainee was arrested. Aaron Victor Seivers - who had been in field training, with a gun and badge, after joining the force this year - is accused of driving the getaway car in the robbery of a Baltimore County McDonald's last month, county police said. Seivers, 28, was fired yesterday, a city police spokesman said.

Man caught in chase faces drug charges Anne Arundel County sheriff's deputies trying to serve a warrant in Annapolis instead arrested another man on drug charges, the sheriff's office said yesterday. The deputies were looking for Deon Mitchell Brown on Clay Street about 5 p.m. Oct. 3 when they saw someone they thought looked like him and approached. The man fled but was quickly caught after a chase. He identified himself as Samuel Joyce at the county police department's Southern District station, where deputies said they recovered 12 rocks of crack cocaine from him. Joyce was charged with drug possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Luxury cars are not my thing. For me, the practical outweighs aesthetics in matters automotive. Gizmos and gadgets strike me as distractions rather than marks of status. My 2002 Hyundai Elantra - with 85,000 miles and a collection of discarded coffee cups - suits me just fine. That being said, could I please borrow that $71,370 BMW for just a few more days? Here's the deal: A representative of a company called Mobileye calls with an offer that was hard to refuse. Please try out our new technology, she says.

Speeding from police in a stolen BMW with stolen plasma televisions and money, Stephan Vaughn Jr. tore through two Baltimore mothers' lives last July, taking from each her only son. Debbie Jurkiewicz was about to step out of her home in Highlandtown at 7 a.m. when the police officer approached her, asked to come inside, asked her to sit down. Denis Jurkiewicz Jr., 24, had died in a car crash hours earlier as he was driving to his parents' house after work. Margie Robinson learned about the crash that afternoon, as she dropped her daughter in the West Baltimore neighborhood where the children's father and grandmother lived.

NEW YORK-- --Heath Ledger is driving me home. Movie stars don't usually drive journalists anywhere, especially distances that require knowledge of rules of New York streets. But this Brooklyn transplant of five months powers his car - a blue BMW - with the leisurely assurance of a cowboy on the range. The star of Brokeback Mountain, set for release in Baltimore on Jan. 6, Ledger is slung back in his seat, his long legs stretched out in ratty jeans, a hood pulled over his dusty brown hair.

Johannesburg, South Africa -- When Nomzamo Fihla decided she needed a new car that would be more reliable than her balky Volkswagen, she joined the huge wave of black South Africans pushing car sales - and especially sales of luxury models - to record heights. Fihla, an operations manager in her 20s at a government call center, eventually decided on a jet-black, $40,000 BMW. It is much like her boyfriend's. And much like the prized status symbol of thousands of other black South Africans.