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Anne Arundel County police have identified the woman whose body was found in rising waters near a homeless camp in Laurel Thursday as 26-year-old Anifa Kiwanuka. Kiwanuka's body was discovered around 11:25 a.m. in rising waters Thursday near a homeless camp in a low lying, wooded area located by Route 198 and Racetrack Road. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore will determine the cause of death. According to police, a witness told Kiwanuka between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. to leave the area because the high waters were dangerous.

When Stephanie Dignan left her job as a financial adviser to start her own fitness business, she had no idea she was about to change hundreds of lives. Just four months earlier, the Glenelg High School and University of Maryland graduate began teaching boot camp classes at a local gym. “I thought, 'Why not? I'll do it for fun,'” Dignan says. But that fun quickly developed into a passion -- one Dignan wanted to pursue full time. So in 2008, she launched her solo venture, The Boot Camp Girl LLC, with hopes of taking her boot camp skills and fitness ideas to clients across Howard County.

A woman's body was found Thursday in rising waters near a homeless camp in Laurel, as flooding closed roads throughout the region and a dangerously high reservoir prompted the evacuation of Laurel's historic district. The discovery of the body came as police in Laurel were going door to door to warn residents and business owners about likely flooding from a release of water at the T. Howard Duckett Dam by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. The commission also released water from Brighton Dam in Brookeville.

Submitting sports notices The deadline for submitting sports copy is 9 a.m. on Monday. We prefer email (howardcountysports@patuxent.com). Questions? Call 410-332-6578. Baseball Use the day off from school Feb. 18 to start preparing for the baseball season, getting some quality instruction and practice in at the President's Day Holiday Baseball Camp at PowerUP Sports and Training in Laurel. The camp goes from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will be run by Reservoir High School varsity baseball coach Adam Leader and his staff.

Looking for that perfect Valentine? Or maybe you and your true four-legged love are looking to share the snuggles this year. Either way, Columbia's Camp Bow Wow is gearing up for its fifth annual Cupids and Canines event to be held Feb. 9 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Enchanted Forest Shopping Center, Ellicott City. More than a dozen animal-rescue organizations from the mid-Atlantic region will be on-site that day to help match up orphaned dogs with their human soulmates and send them to their forever homes.

Here are some Orioles odds and ends this morning: -- We're still waiting for an announcement about an extension for manager Buck Showalter. This was the week it was supposed to be announced, but I wouldn't expect it for the next few days, and time is running out to make an announcement before FanFest on Saturday. Showalter will be busy with the team's mini-camp Wednesday through Friday. There's no reason to worry that it won't get done. It's mainly a matter of scheduling conflicts.

The Chesapeake Bayhawks and Denver Outlaws will conduct a joint open tryout Saturday, March 9 in Gambrills to fill out their training camp rosters. All players must be registered in the Major League Lacrosse Player Pool in order to try out. The nonrefundable registration fee is $125. Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged. Players can register here . At least one player each season has been invited to training camp. The tryout will consists of a brief combine testing each player's height, weight, 40-yard dash time and vertical jump. Players will then run through competitive drills and gamelike situations led by coaches and staff.

The vision of Ravens rookie running back Bernard Pierce is clearer nowadays on the football field. Following a more patient approach has paid dividends for Pierce, and the AFC North champion Ravens. The third-round draft pick from Temple has emerged as a valuable backup to Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice, rushing for 443 yards and a touchdown with an average of 5.2 yards per carry. Only a handful of rookie running backs selected in the 2012 NFL draft have been more productive than Pierce.

The Navy men's lacrosse team is ranked fifth in the Patriot League in Inside Lacrosse's Face-Off Yearbook preseason coaches' poll. Lehigh, coming off its first league championship, is picked to finish first again in the coaches' poll, with Colgate second and Bucknell third. Long-stick midfielder-defenseman Pat Kiernan was the Midshipmen's lone representative on the Preseason All-Patriot League team. The Mids have failed to make the conference tournament each of the past two seasons, the only times that has happened.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Orioles added their latest reclamation project Wednesday, agreeing to terms with first baseman Conor Jackson on a minor league deal with an invitation to major league spring training, executive vice president Dan Duquette announced. Jackson, a 2003 first-round draft pick of the Diamondbacks, put together three straight seasons of at least a .294 average, .368 on-base percentage, 12 homers and 60 RBIs from 2006 to 2008 with Arizona. But he's played in more than 60 big league games in a season just once since 2008, shuffling between the majors and minors within four different organizations during that span.