Camp Springs

A man Prince George's County police said was a military police officer was shot and killed yesterday after a NationsBank branch in Camp Springs was robbed.Police said a man walked into the bank, in the 6300 block of Allentown Road, about 10: 30 a.m., pulled out a .38-caliber handgun and announced a robbery.When he left after being given cash, a guard who had made his way outside during the robbery confronted him, police said. The man fired several shots at the guard, who shot back, hitting the man several times, police said.

The Orioles announced today that right-handed pitcher Jake Arrieta has been assigned to minor league camp. With the move, the Orioles' spring training roster currently stands at 47 players. Last season, Arrieta was 6-3 with a 2.59 ERA in 11 games at Double-A Bowie and 5-8 with a 3.93 ERA in 17 games at Triple-A Norfolk.

Samuel Streett Bevard Jr., a retired partner in a Prince George's County sand and gravel company, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park. He was 73 and lived in Dunkirk. Mr. Bevard was born in Baltimore and spent his early years growing up on Clifton Avenue. In 1941, he moved with his family to Camp Springs and graduated in 1946 from Surrattsville High School. He attended the University of Maryland before enlisting in the Navy in 1951, serving for years as an aviation mechanic,.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -After another long workout, Koji Uehara walked into the Orioles' clubhouse yesterday morning with his translator, trainer and masseuse following closely behind. Uehara smiled at a reporter who was near his locker and then joked with a couple of his new teammates as about a dozen Japanese reporters watched his every move. Several minutes later, Matt Wieters arrived at Fort Lauderdale Stadium flanked by fellow Orioles prospects Brad Bergesen and David Hernandez. Wieters unpacked his equipment bag before several team officials, players and reporters made their way to his locker.

CAMP SPRINGS -- Dante Barnes is used to getting razzed by other kids when his Camp Springs Boys and Girls Club squad leads cheers at weekend football games."

Contractors removing asbestos from two federal government properties in Maryland have been fined a total of $25,500 for unsafe handling of the hazardous insulating material.The Maryland Department of the Environment levied a $15,500 fine against Hudak Asbestos Removal of Baltimore for violations from December 1995 to May 1996 at the Fallon federal office building at Hopkins Plaza.The company was cited for allegedly endangering its workers and the federal employees in the building by not requiring removal crews to wear protective clothing and by not wetting asbestos to prevent it from becoming airborne.

County police said they are seeking the driver of a truck in a hit-and-run accident that seriously injured a Parkville teenager last week. Police said yesterday they believe the vehicle that hit Michael Thompson, 17, of the 1400 block of Parktrail Road might have been a U-Haul truck with a large image of a prehistoric, worm-like creature called the "Tully Monster" on its side. The accident occurred at 8:46 p.m. April 1 on McClean Boulevard near Perring Parkway while Thompson was in a crosswalk, police said.

WARNING: THIS column deals only with beautiful aspects of amateur sports, for young and old. First, old: Howard County has a piece, at least, of another national soccer championship. The Camp Springs Soccer Club, which has considered Women's Soccer League of Columbia fields its home for years even though its roster counts only one Howard countian, won the over-40 women's national championship this month in Nashua, N.H. To capture the U.S. Amateur Soccer Association's Veterans Cup, Camp Springs won four straight games, surrendering just one goal, beating a Virginia team in sudden-death overtime, 1-0, and then defeating Seattle's Copa de Vida, two-time defending national titlist, also 1-0. "You'd have thought we'd won a million dollars after that semifinal," said Ellicott City's Regina Jenkins, the team's sweeper since 1981 and only player on the field for every minute of the final four games.

If this were really winter, children across Maryland would hav rejoiced on awakening yesterday to nearly a foot of snow.Instead, they saw the last drops of an inch or more of rain before skies cleared and temperatures soared for a second straight day into the springlike 60s.In Baltimore, the confusion of the seasons seemed to be matched by an uncertainty of dress as people wavered between breaking out the shorts and lightweight jackets or going for the...

THE WOMEN'S SOCCER Association of Columbia, a league that was one the first of its kind in Central Maryland and has functioned independently for nearly 25 years, has decided to let the county's Department of Recreation and Parks administer its affairs. The reason seems to be a combination of growth and shortage of volunteers to cope with the multiple pains of budgeting, scheduling, rainouts, officiating and field booking, said Janell Coffman, a sports supervisor for the rec department and assistant women's soccer coach at the Community College of Baltimore County-Catonsville.

County police said they are seeking the driver of a truck in a hit-and-run accident that seriously injured a Parkville teenager last week. Police said yesterday they believe the vehicle that hit Michael Thompson, 17, of the 1400 block of Parktrail Road might have been a U-Haul truck with a large image of a prehistoric, worm-like creature called the "Tully Monster" on its side. The accident occurred at 8:46 p.m. April 1 on McClean Boulevard near Perring Parkway while Thompson was in a crosswalk, police said.

Samuel Streett Bevard Jr., a retired partner in a Prince George's County sand and gravel company, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park. He was 73 and lived in Dunkirk. Mr. Bevard was born in Baltimore and spent his early years growing up on Clifton Avenue. In 1941, he moved with his family to Camp Springs and graduated in 1946 from Surrattsville High School. He attended the University of Maryland before enlisting in the Navy in 1951, serving for years as an aviation mechanic,.

THE WOMEN'S SOCCER Association of Columbia, a league that was one the first of its kind in Central Maryland and has functioned independently for nearly 25 years, has decided to let the county's Department of Recreation and Parks administer its affairs. The reason seems to be a combination of growth and shortage of volunteers to cope with the multiple pains of budgeting, scheduling, rainouts, officiating and field booking, said Janell Coffman, a sports supervisor for the rec department and assistant women's soccer coach at the Community College of Baltimore County-Catonsville.

CAMP SPRINGS - As raindrops trickled down their windowpanes yesterday, National Weather service forecasters said that drought conditions likely will persist through September in Central Maryland, and in much of the East and Gulf coast states. But summer showers should bring at least some relief. "The East Coast drought will slowly improve as the summer unfolds," said John E. Jones Jr., deputy director of the National Weather Service. Scattered water shortages, however, are likely to crop up during normal summer dry spells.

WARNING: THIS column deals only with beautiful aspects of amateur sports, for young and old. First, old: Howard County has a piece, at least, of another national soccer championship. The Camp Springs Soccer Club, which has considered Women's Soccer League of Columbia fields its home for years even though its roster counts only one Howard countian, won the over-40 women's national championship this month in Nashua, N.H. To capture the U.S. Amateur Soccer Association's Veterans Cup, Camp Springs won four straight games, surrendering just one goal, beating a Virginia team in sudden-death overtime, 1-0, and then defeating Seattle's Copa de Vida, two-time defending national titlist, also 1-0. "You'd have thought we'd won a million dollars after that semifinal," said Ellicott City's Regina Jenkins, the team's sweeper since 1981 and only player on the field for every minute of the final four games.

A man Prince George's County police said was a military police officer was shot and killed yesterday after a NationsBank branch in Camp Springs was robbed.Police said a man walked into the bank, in the 6300 block of Allentown Road, about 10: 30 a.m., pulled out a .38-caliber handgun and announced a robbery.When he left after being given cash, a guard who had made his way outside during the robbery confronted him, police said. The man fired several shots at the guard, who shot back, hitting the man several times, police said.

The Rev. John R. Scamehorn firmly believes that the Lord led him on a path to the ministry, even though he did not become an ordained minister until he was 49 years old.Looking back over his various careers, he says, he realizes his earlier jobs were preparation for what he is doing now: spreading the word of Jesus Christ as leader of St. John's United Methodist Church's 600-member congregation in Hampstead."

CAMP SPRINGS - As raindrops trickled down their windowpanes yesterday, National Weather service forecasters said that drought conditions likely will persist through September in Central Maryland, and in much of the East and Gulf coast states. But summer showers should bring at least some relief. "The East Coast drought will slowly improve as the summer unfolds," said John E. Jones Jr., deputy director of the National Weather Service. Scattered water shortages, however, are likely to crop up during normal summer dry spells.

Contractors removing asbestos from two federal government properties in Maryland have been fined a total of $25,500 for unsafe handling of the hazardous insulating material.The Maryland Department of the Environment levied a $15,500 fine against Hudak Asbestos Removal of Baltimore for violations from December 1995 to May 1996 at the Fallon federal office building at Hopkins Plaza.The company was cited for allegedly endangering its workers and the federal employees in the building by not requiring removal crews to wear protective clothing and by not wetting asbestos to prevent it from becoming airborne.

The Rev. John R. Scamehorn firmly believes that the Lord led him on a path to the ministry, even though he did not become an ordained minister until he was 49 years old.Looking back over his various careers, he says, he realizes his earlier jobs were preparation for what he is doing now: spreading the word of Jesus Christ as leader of St. John's United Methodist Church's 600-member congregation in Hampstead."