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Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Howard County.Ellicott City-ElkridgeEllicott City: An intruder broke through the screen door of a home in the 6400 block of Summer Cloud Way on Sunday or Monday and stole $40 from a purse in the dining room.Ellicott City: A thief broke into a house in the 12300 block of Benson Branch Road on Monday, cut the phone line, and stole jewelry and coins from a safe.Ellicott City: Two thieves stole five windows valued at $1,000 Friday from a house under construction on Cross Country Drive.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Howard County.Ellicott City-ElkridgeEllicott City: Someone drove a truck through the front of a gas station in the 10100 block of Baltimore National Pike on Sunday, chained an automatic teller machine to the vehicle and drove out of the station. A suspect was stopped afterward with an ATM in a truck. Antoinette Sweeney was charged with breaking and entering, police said.Ellicott City: An intruder broke into a residence in the 4800 block of S. Haven Drive on Friday and stole a television, scanner, videocassette recorder and computer equipment.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Howard County.East ColumbiaOwen Brown: A woman driving north on Columbia Gateway Drive was bumped from behind by a white compact car Tuesday at 6: 10 p.m. When the woman pulled over, the white car also pulled over and a man stepped out, got a gun out of his trunk, and fired a shot into the air. The woman drove off, and the man fired another shot, then followed the woman onto northbound Snowden River Parkway....

WANT TO take your stock market marbles and go home? Not so fast! " `You'll never go broke taking a profit' may be the worst advice ever given," says Better Investing. "Sure, you'll never go broke, but you'll never get rich, either. Don't sell your winners prematurely while keeping your losers. The best investments usually have `shelf lives' longer than six or 12 months."Fortune magazine points out: "If you invested $10,000 in the S&P 500-stock index just before the 1990 bear market and kept investing $100 a month, you would have $62,000 in eight years while someone who fled the market after a 10 percent drop and invested $100 a month in T-bills would have only $24,000."

Cardinal Gibbons senior Nick Hoffman shut down St. Mary's in relief, then hit a game-winning, two-run triple to secure a 5-3 victory in yesterday's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association B Conference title game at Joe Cannon Stadium in Harmans.One of only two senior starters on a 13-player roster that includes nine sophomores, Hoffman was clutch on the mound as Gibbons (18-10) made St. Mary's (17-4) a runner-up for the second straight year.With two on, two out, and the game tied at 3 in the bottom of the sixth innning, first-year coach Lou Holcomb replaced Justin King with Hoffman.

PoliceWestminster: An employee of Tuxes 4U on West Main Street told police Tuesday that someone broke the driver's side window of her vehicle and took property. Loss is estimated at $880.

PoliceWestminster: A resident of Winters Street told police Sunday that someone broke the rear window of his vehicle. Damage was estimated at $250.Pub Date: 10/14/98

PoliceWestminster: An employee of Carroll Lutheran Village told police Monday that someone damaged Christmas tree lights on two trees. Loss is estimated at $200.Westminster: An employee of Hope's Domestic Services told police Monday that someone broke into a locked office and took property. Loss is estimated at $293.Westminster: A resident of Pikesville told police Tuesday that someone broke four windows of a building he owns on Schaeffer Avenue. Damage is estimated at $240.Pub Date: 12/24/98

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Howard County.Ellicott City: 4200 block of Centennial Lane: Someone broke into the Burleigh Manor School between Saturday and Monday. A rear window was broken, but nothing appeared to be missing.Elkridge: 6600 block of Santa Barbara Road: Sherwin Williams Co. was broken into between Friday and Monday. The store was partially ransacked and an attempt was made to break into a safe, but nothing was reported missing.Elkridge: 5700 block of U.S. 1: Someone broke into Boulevard Automotive Inc. on Monday and stole a stereo from a car parked outside the garage area.

Severna Park: Someone smashed a mailbox in the first block of Linda Lane about 2 a.m. Sunday.Annapolis: Tools, two miter saws and a welder were reported stolen from the bed of a truck parked overnight Sunday at the Days Inn in the 2500 block of Riva Road. The items were together valued at $1,125.Parole: A generator valued at $4,000 was stolen from a 1997 Ford F-150 between 11: 30 a.m. and 11: 45 a.m. Monday while it was parked near the Sears store in Parole Plaza.Odenton: Three teens kicked in the rear door of an unoccupied house in the 1300 block of Baltimore Ave. about 6: 30 p.m. Monday and ransacked it, breaking windows and ceiling tiles and punching holes in walls.

Police reports in Baltimore city and county: Eastern Baltimore Burglary Police were seeking the person who broke into a house under renovation in the 2000 block of Orleans St. between Aug. 21 and Thursday through the front door and stole seven space heaters, kitchen cabinets and counters, and a stove. Total value of the property was $5,300. Stolen vehicle A 2001 Chevrolet Suburban with tags A086772 was stolen Thursday in the 2600 block of E. Chase St. Baltimore Co. -- Essex Stabbing/arrest A man, 20, and his girlfriend, 19, were arguing in her home in the 1000 block of Debbie Ave. about 11:30 p.m. Friday when the man stabbed the woman in the right arm with a knife.

Police reports in Baltimore city and county: Eastern Baltimore Theft: A DVD player valued at $150 was stolen May 22 from the living room table of a house in the 900 block of E. Preston St. The occupant reported the theft on Thursday, telling police several people were in and out of his home at the time of the theft. Southeastern Baltimore Theft: A 1997 Nissan Maxima was parked in the 3300 block of Pulaski Highway between Wednesday and Thursday when someone stole a tag. Taken was Maryland tag 7EY K45. Theft: An iPod valued at $150 was stolen Wednesday from a 2007 Toyota Rav-4 parked in the first block of S. Ellwood Ave. Theft: Someone broke a window of a 2001 Dodge Ram parked at the Baltimore Travel Plaza in the 5600 block of O'Donnell St. on Tuesday and stole a navigational system valued at $250.

police reports in baltimore city and county: Central Baltimore Assault A man was arguing over paying a prostitute $20 while the pair sat in his car about 6 a.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Ave. when the man pulled out a knife and cut the woman, 26, in the back. The woman was treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center and was expected to survive. No arrest had been made. Carjacking A man was talking to a woman in the 1200 block of Eutaw Place about 2:30 a.m. Sunday when he was assaulted by four men, one with a handgun, who drove off in his 2002 cream-colored Cadillac with tags 2DC Z99. Stolen vehicle A red two-door 1996 Chevrolet Lumina with tags 9BF H24 was stolen Sunday in the 800 block of N. Calvert St. Theft Someone broke into a 1996 Honda Civic parked in the 1700 block of St. Paul St. Saturday or Sunday and stole three purses containing a total of $175, credit cards and other property.

CLEVELAND-- --The crutch usually does no worse than wobble. Wobbling is the exception, as it seemed to be the previous two weeks before the Ravens came to Cleveland Browns Stadium yesterday. This was different, though. The Ravens' defense didn't save the day this time. It didn't prop up another sputtering offense or redeem some mistake or overcome some misjudgment. As the offense changed coordinators and receivers and quarterbacks over the years and still ran in place, the defense at worst has bent but not broken.

When you're in college, news can spread quickly on campus. But when two of Dave DeDionisio's classmates at Peabody Conservatory broke up, news of their nasty tiff spread like wildfire. On Facebook. It started out innocuously enough - one person changed their relationship status from dating to single. Another took down the profile picture of the two of them. Then snarky comments surfaced in each other's status, a spot on Facebook that is usually reserved for more sedate updates like, "I am feeling tired today."

When the steely nerved Tiger Woods broke down after he won the British Open, his first victory since his father died of cancer in May, his tears generated nearly as much attention as his latest major golf championship. Sunday was, indeed, a red-letter day for emotion: Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza of Puerto Rico wept and fainted after being crowned the new Miss Universe. For celebrities frequently in the public eye, such raw emotion is so rare, the displays often leave a more lasting impression than what prompted the tears.

The man crushed to death when a large section of a smokestack at W.R. Grace Chemical Co. in Curtis Bay broke off and fell onto a company pickup truck on Tuesday was identified yesterday as a Harford County resident. The other person in the vehicle, whose name was not released, escaped injury. Authorities were attempting to determine if Tuesday's high winds might have caused the smokestack to collapse. The Maryland Occupation Health & Safety Administration is investigating the accident.

WASHINGTON -- I'm delighted to hear people jawboning about poverty again, even if it took a couple of hurricanes to get us to do it. I also wonder how many Americans really know what poverty is. Basically, poverty is a profound lack of money. Or, as my father used to put it, "po'," which apparently meant that you were too poor to afford the "O" or the "R". "Are we po'?," I asked the old man. "Naw," said the principal breadwinner of our household. "We're not po'. We're just broke." What was the difference?

PARIS - Jose Higueras' forecast two days before the start of the French Open is as fresh today as the moment he said it. Rafael Nadal might get nervous, said the great former Spanish clay-courter, but only in the first round or two. If he makes it to the semifinals and final, there will be no nerves, said Higueras, who lives and coaches in the United States. His will is too strong, his mentality too steely. Indeed, there have been no nerves for the precocious left-hander whose flash and personality are exactly what the French fans love.

Even if Wisconsin finishes the regular season unbeaten, it seems doubtful that the Badgers can hope for anything more than an invitation to the Rose Bowl. Not only would top-ranked Southern California and No. 2 Oklahoma both have to lose - given their recent struggles, neither is guaranteed to run the table - but Wisconsin would also need to get some help from Auburn. At 9-0, the Badgers are right up there with the Tigers as the country's surprise teams this season, but Wisconsin went into last week fifth in the Bowl Championship Series and in the Associated Press poll to find itself behind California in both.