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Maryland consumers ignored the stock market jitters and the Asian economic crisis last month to go on a mini new-car buying spree that boosted sales 5 percent, according to figures released yesterday by the state Motor Vehicle Administration.The gain here was slightly less than the 6 percent jump in sales nationwide as the auto industry closed its books on the 1998 model year.Vincent Trasatti Sr., president of East-West Lincoln and Mercury in Landover and secretary treasurer of the Maryland New Car and Truck Dealers Association, said big factory incentives were enough to make many consumers forget about declining stock prices.

In his private stretch of no-man's land along Baltimore's Llewelyn Avenue, Albert Sims went to work every day, tended to his Cadillac, sought out a good game of checkers and waited in vain for his long-dead wife to come home.But instead of welcoming his beloved Ella Mae to the house they'd shared at 1620 Llewelyn -- the last occupied dwelling on a desolate block of dead-end rubble -- the 77-year-old janitor was preyed upon by burglars and kids who had fun making him miserable.Rocks were thrown at the elderly man's house, his car and his person.

Edmund Arthur Brown, a former city cabdriver and later a "hack" who alternately chauffeured passengers in his Cadillac or his rusted Pinto hatchback, died of heart failure Wednesday while living in Richmond, Va.Mr. Brown, 62, lived in Baltimore until the early 1990s. He drove a cab for 10 years and hacked -- working as an unlicensed cabbie -- for more than 15 years.His usual haunts for finding fares were the Lexington and Lafayette markets and some east-side supermarkets.A short, heavyset man who usually wore a sweater and a tweed cap, Mr. Brown enjoyed driving and talking, and knew even the most obscure city streets.

Motorola is offering the Cadillac of pagers with PageWriter 0) 2000Motorola's PageWriter 2000 is the Cadillac of two-way pagers. The $400 unit ($440 with deluxe charger) has a large back-lighted screen, 1.25 megabytes of RAM and a 47-key keyboard. Like a Cadillac, it's not small - it's the size of a thick deck of cards, and weighs 6.7 ounces (including the battery). That's not enough to develop new muscles, but it feels fairly heavy hanging on your belt. The flip lid allows message viewing while the pager is still on your belt clip, a handy feature.

Brian KinchenPos.: Tight endHeight: 6-2Weight: 240Age: 32Season: 10thHighlights: Set career highs last season with 55 receptions for 581 yards, catching a pass in all but two games. Made 50th NFL start last season against Jacksonville and had a career-high nine receptions. Caught a pass in each of the final 11 games of the 1994 season. Saw action in all 16 of Miami's games in 1988 and 1989, mostly as a long snapper.Favorite food: SeafoodFavorite movie: "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"Last CD purchased: HansonLeisure activities: Golf (finished second at the NFL Cadillac Classic)

Levy Duren survived Jim Crow laws and the Nazis' guns, then set his goals on the pleasures of life: a pretty girl, a home of his own and a brand-new Cadillac."

In another case of consolidating car dealers, Len Stoler Inc. has bought Westminster Motor Co. in Carroll County, the companies said yesterday.Stoler, which already operates dealerships in Owings Mills and Westminster, adds Westminster Motor's Chevrolet, Oldsmobile and Cadillac operations to an already broad lineup.Westminster owner Jeffrey Legum is leaving a business that traces its roots to 1921, when his grandfather founded Park Circle Chevrolet in Baltimore."It's a bittersweet moment," Legum said.

Severna Park: Vandals broke the driver's side windows of a 1988 Chevrolet and a 1982 Cadillac left for repairs overnight Saturday at the Shell gas station in the 400 block of Ritchie Highway.Pub Date: 11/27/96

Four people were seriously injured and four others were taken to hospitals yesterday after a mini-passenger bus struck a 1991 Cadillac De Ville at Ritchie Highway and College Parkway.Police said the driver of the Cadillac, Walter Leo Sexton of the 600 block of Kensington Ave. in Severna Park, had stopped at a red traffic signal on southbound Ritchie Highway shortly after 9 a.m.The minibus driven by Willie Mortimer Moreland of the 200 block of Drover Way in Stevensville for Towson-based Adult Day Care of America hit Mr. Sexton's car, police said.

County police arrested two Washington men and a Forestville man Saturday on charges of ramming two stolen Jeeps through the display windows of electronics stores in Laurel and Odenton and stealing more than $4,700 worth of equipment.Police said four men stole the Jeeps from the 7800 block of Americana Circle in Glen Burnie late Friday night or early Saturday.Two men drove the Jeeps and a third drove a 1983 blue Cadillac de Ville.One of them rammed a Jeep through the windows of Hobby Works in the 300 block of Domer Ave. in Laurel Center just after 3 a.m., police said.

Michael Phelps, who holds the Olympic record with 14 gold medals for swimming, was shaken but apparently uninjured Thursday night when the late-model Cadillac Escalade he was driving in Mid-Town Belvedere collided with another vehicle, seriously damaging Phelps' vehicle, the other car and a parked vehicle, police said. The female driver of the Honda Accord was taken to an area hospital as a precaution, police said. Shortly before 9 p.m., Phelps, 24, was driving the Cadillac east in the 100 block of E. Biddle St. when he entered the intersection at the 1100 block of N. Calvert St. and collided with a Honda Accord driven north in the 1100 block of N. Calvert St. by a woman.

I am your scapegoat. I am your boogeyman. Brown-skinned, kinky-haired, black man, me. So I was not surprised last week when a white woman from suburban Philadelphia called police from her cell phone, claiming she had been locked in the trunk of a Cadillac by two black men. Nor was I shocked when police said Bonnie Sweeten was actually holed up in a luxury hotel at Walt Disney World and there never was a kidnapping, much less by two black men. I'm your...

WASHINGTON - In their quest for a financial lifeline from Washington, U.S. automakers filed detailed plans yesterday for reinventing themselves for a leaner, greener future, but what might do more to win over a skeptical Congress was another round of disastrous news from the nation's car dealers. New car and truck sales plunged 37 percent in November, the latest in a string of dismal sales reports stretching back more than a year. And evidence that the bottom is falling out of an industry with supplier and dealer networks that stretch across the country could bring the economic and political costs of a collapse home to uncertain members of the House and Senate.

Robbery try at repair shop leaves man dead, police say 1 The owner of a Northwest Baltimore auto repair shop fatally shot a man during an attempted robbery of his business yesterday evening, city police said. Police spokesman Sterling Clifford said this was the second time that Joseph Goldman has shot someone trying to rob his business. Clifford said he did not know when the first incident occurred or whether the person died. Goldman declined to comment through a woman who answered his cell phone last night.

Gunfire yesterday evening in the Brooklyn Homes section of Baltimore killed a female driver and wounded her male passenger and a woman sitting on a porch, police said. Names of the victims were not released and no arrests had been made, police said. Shortly before 6 p.m., a woman was driving a Toyota sedan in the 4100 block of Mariban Court and was being followed by a white Cadillac, said Sterling Clifford, a city police spokesman. Near the intersection of 10th Street, Clifford said, someone in the Cadillac fired several shots into the Toyota, striking the driver and passenger.

Dino J. Bartoli, a retired railroader and former longtime Parkville resident, died in his sleep Sunday at his home in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 91. Mr. Bartoli was born and raised in Shickshinny, Pa. He was a graduate of Shickshinny High School, and as a young man played right field for minor league baseball teams in Shickshinny and Sunbury, Pa. "He won the 1938 batting title with a .361 average and once played against Hall-of-Famer Goose Goslin, among...

COLLEGE PARK -- Amidst the smoke and darkness from a corner in Comcast Center last night emerged a shiny, black, 1960 Cadillac convertible, overflowing with dapperly dressed members of the 2007-08 men's basketball team. Their exuberant entrance was as fitting and proper as their white suits, considering senior forward Bambale Osby's love for Cadillacs, of which he has four. Maryland Madness last night - at least from Osby's view in the front seat - in one word was "ex-cit-ing." The women's team came out in their little black dresses and shook their tambourines and more.

He wore white Reeboks, she had on black Masai Barefoot Technology sandals. In the race for City Council president, the tightest citywide contest, maybe the winner should get a shoe endorsement deal as well. While every candidate was, or should have been, pounding the pavement during the long holiday weekend, Michael Sarbanes and Stephanie Rawlings-Blake probably had the most to gain. The Sun's latest poll shows the council presidency candidates locked in a too-close-to-call race, with Sarbanes attracting the support of 33 percent of voters and Rawlings-Blake just 3 percentage points behind.

A man sought by police for killing his pregnant girlfriend and wounding another woman as they sat in a car on a Hillendale area shopping center parking lot Monday morning surrendered last night, police said. Police said David Lee Miller, 24, of the 1200 block of Halstead Road in Hillendale surrendered to police at the Towson precinct and was immediately taken to police headquarters, where he was interviewed by detectives. From headquarters, Miller was taken before a District Court commissioner in Towson and was denied bail.

A throwback to the 1940s and '50s, the Cadillac Parade and Royal Theater Music Festival was revived for the ninth year Saturday. The original Cadillac Parade was a major event in the city's black community, in which Baltimoreans would ride along or watch as Cadillacs cruised down Pennsylvania Avenue. Before the 1960s, The Avenue was a center of commerce and night life, home to the Royal Theater, the Lucky Number Club and the exclusive Sphinx Club. Jazz greats including Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane performed here.