Bus Stop

Carroll County's year-old policy restricting the number of changes students can make in their school bus stops was upheld by the state last week.In a challenge to the county's policy -- which limits the20,000 students who use school buses to one morning stop and one afternoon stop -- Eldersburg parent Susan Ballas had asked the Board of Education to allow her third-grade daughter to get off the bus at a different stop a mile from her home two days a...

Three men were injured when a truck crashed into a city bus stop on Wednesday morning, according to the Baltimore Fire Department. The collision occurred about 7 a.m. near the intersection of West North and Park avenues, along the northern edge of the city's Bolton Hill neighborhood, said Capt. Roman Clark, a department spokesman. The three pedestrians, one 34-year-old and two 60-year-olds, were transported to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, Clark said. The crash is being investigated, Clark said.

The county commissioners will relay a Detour parent's concerns abouta bus stop change on Middleburg Road to the Board of Education.During a brief meeting Thursday, the commissioners told Herman Steffenthat bus stop policies, set by the school board and its staff, were outside their jurisdiction."

A U.S. Marshals task force in North Carolina arrested a Baltimore man Friday in the fatal stabbing of a 31-year-old woman in the Lakeland neighborhood. Along with Winston Salem, N.C., police, task force officers found Michael Gerald Wesley, 34, at a bus stop in Winston Salem through tips and surveillance. When they moved to make an arrest, authorities said he tried to evade capture by hiding his face and ducking into a business. As he was heading for a back door in a business, U.S. Marshals Service officials said, deputy U.S. Marshals detained him without incident.

A 28-year-old Cherry Hill woman was shot fatally in the head last night as she waited for a bus at the corner of Greenmount Avenue and Federal Street, police said.Josephine Coates, who lived with her husband in the 2700 block of Sethlow Road, was waiting for a bus shortly after 8 p.m. when someone shot her, either from a passing car or in an ambush, police said.Police had no suspects.Ms. Coates died on the street from at least one shot to the head."We're getting conflicting stories as to what happened," said one investigator, who said detectives were questioning a witness.

Phoenix Festival Theater's production of "Bus Stop," William Inge's three-act romance set in a Midwestern diner, is as satisfying as a cup of joe and a slab of apple pie a la mode.As directed by Allan Herlinger and playing at Harford Community College through July 31, "Bus Stop" is a total sensory experience that begins as you set foot in the theater.Grace's Diner crackles to life through the imagination and painstaking attention to detail of set designer Terri Raulie, sound and lighting designer Bill Price and technical director Todd Mion.

Five people, including four children, were killed this morning during rush hour when a car jumped a curb and careened into a crowded bus stop in Woodlawn, leaving a 100-yard trail of carnage along a grassy roadside.Another child and an adult were injured in the 7 a.m. crash on Woodlawn Drive near the Social Security Administration building. Investigators were questioning the driver of the red 1988 Mazda, who police said was uninjured.Baltimore County police and an accident reconstruction team from the Maryland State Police spent several hours examining the wreckage.

A Baltimore County grand jury has handed up a 10-count indictment against Raymond Charles Haney, driver of the car that crashed into a Woodlawn bus stop in July, killing a mother and four young children. Mr. Haney was charged with five counts automobile manslaughter and with traffic violations that include speeding, negligent and reckless driving, and making an unsafe lane change.Article, Page 1C

To accommodate commuters, the Mass Transit Administration of the Maryland Department of Transportation has changed one bus stop on the No. 929 route running from Columbia to Silver Spring and Washington.The route operates from the State Highway Adminstration's new 416-space park-and-ride facility along Route 216 on Scaggsville Road in Howard County.This stop replaces the previous stop off U.S. 29.The schedule and one-way fare of $3 remain the same.2& Information: 442-1330 or 539-5000.POLICE LOG* Kings Contrivance: 9000 block of Early April Way: A 1993 Mitsubishi Mirage stolen Monday or before was recovered in Prince George's County Tuesday, police said.

A Glen Burnie man was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday by two men who approached him as he walked along Hammonds Ferry Road.Richard E. Steger, 38, told police he was walking from the bus stop at Hammonds Ferry and Nursery roads shortly before 11: 30 p.m. when a light-blue Ford Escort northbound on Hammonds Ferry Road pulled up near him.A passenger asked Mr. Steger for directions to Motel 6, then pulled out a gun, forced him to kneel on the ground and demanded money,...

One man was killed and a man and a woman were wounded in a triple shooting while standing at a bus stop in Middle River late Monday night, according to Baltimore County Police. Officers responded to the 2100 block of Eastern Blvd., near the Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center and not far from Martin State Airport, about 11:47 p.m. for a report of gunfire and found the three victims, police said. An initial investigation indicated the three victims were standing at a bus stop when one or more suspects "approached them and began shooting," police said.

The following is compiled from local police reports. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have any information about these crimes, call the Wilkens Police Station at 410-887-0872. Ingleside Avenue and Edmondson Avenue , Feb. 7, 9:30 p.m. Three men approached juvenile at bus stop from behind, knocked him to the ground and stole his wallet and shoes. Old Frederick Road and Holly Manor Road, Feb. 7, 6:57 p.m. Three men approached adult male and one juvenile, struck the adult several times and stole his money.

William Inge's "Bus Stop" was the very first play staged at the Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre in 1962, so it's fitting that its new production of "Bus Stop" recently had its opening night 50 years to the day of that theater-opening production's opening night. This compact in-the-round theater in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood might not seem like the most promising space in which to produce plays, but the Spotlighters has a half-century record of creatively making the most of its basement-level theater.

The old Trailways Bus depot on Fayette Street was crowded, dingy, filled with a dubious clientele and gruff bus drivers. But as it is torn down, I'm sentimental about it. I became inured to its gritty but essentially harmless nature. In time, it became a symbol of non-expense account, third-class travel, the kind that fits a Baltimorean's pocketbook. And now, at the beginning of the vacation season, I think of all the times I bailed out of town via a cheap ticket aboard a Trailways coach.

A registered child sex offender who Anne Arundel County police are calling a "person of interest" in a recent attempt to lure a boy into a vehicle in Edgewater has been jailed on charges of violating terms of his parole. Police said Tuesday that they arrested James David Oliver, 62, on Monday at his Edgewater home, and that he is being held without bail. On Thursday, a 14-year-old boy told police that while he was waiting at his school bus stop that morning, the driver of a red truck stopped and offered him a ride to school.

Police were investigating the fatal shooting of a 34-year-old man early Tuesday in East Baltimore. The shooting was reported about 12:45 a.m. at the intersection of East Baltimore Street and North Highland Avenue, police said. Payton Rivers is believed to have left his home to get food when he was approached by two males, one who was clutching a handgun and shot him, according to police. When officers arrived, Rivers was sitting in the 3400 block of E. Baltimore St., suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest, according to police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.

Two men robbed a Glen Burnie man at knifepoint Friday as he waited for a bus at Ritchie Highway and Holsum Way, county police said yesterday.According to the police report, the men, one armed with a knife, approached Kenneth M. Pettis, 28, about 5:45 p.m., pushed him down and demanded money.When Mr. Pettis, of the 3900 block of Newman Court, hesitated, one of the men threatened him with a knife and the other took money from his pockets.

A West Baltimore man was robbed of $25 shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday, police said.The victim told police he was waiting at a shuttle bus stop in the 8500 block of Pioneer Drive in Severn when a man pushed a blue steel revolver into his side and said, "This is a stickup."The gunman took $25 from the victim's pocket and ran west on Pioneer Drive.Police are looking for a dark-skinned, clean-shaven black male, 5-feet 8-inches tall with a medium build. He was wearing a dark blue ski-type jacket, dark blue or black pants and a dark blue skull cap that was rolled up.POLICE LOG* Crofton: Someone stole a diamond tennis bracelet and a pair of diamond earrings worth $3,345 from a home in the 2200 block of Motley Lane.

This week, Watchdog brings you updates on some previously unresolved problems. Update: A bench has been replaced at a Randallstown bus stop. Roslyn DeGraffinreid called to thank Watchdog last month because a broken wooden bench in the 9100 block of Liberty Road has been replaced. DeGraffinreid works nearby and waits for the bus at that stop after tiring shifts at a nursing home. "You all called the right people and now it's fixed so we can get to sit down," she said in a message to Watchdog.

A West Baltimore man accused of fatally stabbing another man after an argument at a North Avenue bus stop last week has been ordered held without bail, according to city police. Lafayette Taylor of the 500 block of W. Hoffman St. was arrested Feb. 17 in connection with the death that day of 45-year-old Joshua Mathews, police spokesman Detective Kevin Brown said. Taylor turned 56 the day before police say he stabbed Mathews, of the 6700 block of Kincheloe Ave. in Woodlawn. Taylor faces nine charges, including first- and second-degree murder, assault and reckless endangerment, according to court records.