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Two people were injured Sunday when the porch on a house in the Coldstream-Montebello-Homestead community collapsed, said a spokesman for the city Fire Department. Their names were not released. Shortly after 6 p.m., a man and a woman standing on the rear porch of a house in the 2000 block of E. 32nd St. fell about six feet to the ground when the porch suddenly collapsed, Capt. Roman Clark said. Clark said the pair suffered undetermined injuries and were taken by ambulances to Maryland Shock Trauma Center as a precaution.

Perry Hall's varsity and JV girls lacrosse teams will wear red this Friday as they raise funds for the American Heart Association and honor Breanna Sudano, a Gators field hockey player who collapsed during a JV game in September. Sudano's life was saved through CPR at the field, then an operation at Maryland Children's Hospital by Dr. Sunjay Kaushal after she was diagnosed with anomalous coronary artery disease -- a condition she was born with but didn't know she had. From a news release sent out Wednesday: On Friday, starting at 5 p.m., the JV and varsity lacrosse teams at Perry Hall will honor Breanna with a "Red Out" game where they will all wear red in her honor. The girls play a fundraiser game every year.

About 40 Eastern Shore chicken houses collapsed under the weight of the recent snows, and now the Maryland Department of the Environment is giving farmers the option to burn the wood debris instead of hauling it to the landfill. The several feet of snow that fell in Maryland during the storms last month damaged or destroyed at least 41 poultry houses at 29 locations, said Sue duPont, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Department of Agriculture. The average chicken house has about 30,000 birds, duPont said, but not all the houses had birds in them at the time of collapse.

About 10:30 p.m. Monday, House Speaker Michael E. Busch walked across the State House and delivered a grim message to Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller: There weren't enough votes in the House to pass the gambling bill. Everything was unraveling. The legislature's leaders had spent the day crafting a deal. The Senate would agree to the House approach to raising income taxes. The House would pass, or at least attempt to pass, a gambling bill that was a high priority for Miller.

A Navy officer assigned to the Naval Academy collapsed and died yesterday afternoon after a 1.5-mile run for a physical readiness test at the Annapolis campus, the academy announced. He collapsed on Farragut Field, one of the academy's athletic fields, about 1 p.m. and was pronounced dead at Anne Arundel Medical Center. The junior officer -- whose name was not divulged -- had just finished a semiannual physical test, said an academy spokesman. It was the second death in a week and half at the academy.

Baltimore businessman and political activist Raymond V. Haysbert was in critical condition last night at Good Samaritan Hospital after he collapsed about 6: 30 p.m. at a fund-raiser in Northeast Baltimore.The former chairman of Parks Sausage Co., Haysbert, who is in his late 70s, collapsed after speaking to about 200 people at the event sponsored by the North Central Democratic Coalition to raise money for Sylvia Williams' campaign for a 3rd District City Council seat."He was speaking, and he just fell backward," said Ruth Sparks, who held the event at her home in the 2500 block of Montebello Terrace.

Umpire John McSherry collapsed and was taken to a hospital last night during a game between the Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.McSherry, 46, the second-base umpire, collapsed as the third inning was about to begin. He was led to the Braves dugout and was attended by team physician Dr. Robert Crowe.An announcement in the press box later said McSherry was under observation at Piedmont Hospital, and that he was not believed to be in any danger or seriously ill.The weather was warm and muggy, with a game-time temperature of 89 degrees.

A Jarrettsville man suffered a heart attack and three people escaped serious injury after a mobile home they were dismantling collapsed about noon yesterday in the community of Street, the Harford County sheriff's office reported.Rescue workers freed three people trapped under the debris of the collapsed trailer on Trappe Road, including Leonard F. Cochran, 48, of Jarrettsville, who went into cardiac arrest and was in critical condition at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.Thomas E. Hitchcock, 32, of Forest Hill who pushed his 12-year-old son to safety as the trailer collapsed, was treated for superficial injuries at Fallston General Hospital.

PHILADELPHIA -- A 17-year-old basketball player trying to make his high school team collapsed on the court and died yesterday in a manner almost identical to the shocking death of his famous first cousin, Hank Gathers.Joseph Marable, a senior at William Penn High School, was pronounced dead at 4:50 p.m. after being taken by ambulance to Temple University Hospital from the high school gym.The hospital listed Marable's collapse as "sudden death." The medical examiner's office will determine the precise cause, a hospital spokesman said.

A group of Severna Park students were injured Wednesday night when adeck collapsed at a home in Cape St. Claire, sending one graduating senior to a Baltimore hospital with internal injuries.Six other teen-agers -- some who will graduate today from Severna Park High School -- also were injured, though not seriously."I was standing next to the sliding glass door talking to my boyfriend," said Kelly Collins, 18. "The deck just collapsed. I guess theporch just wasn't strong enoughto hold us. I didn't realize so many people were out there."

Warning: Congestion ahead. Starting next Friday evening, one lane in each direction of the Jones Falls Expressway near 29th Street will be shut down for up to a month while crews make emergency repairs to clogged and collapsed drainage pipes. The work, which could cost up to $1 million, will reduce traffic flow by at least a third and is expected to have a major impact on commuters, city transportation officials said. Motorists are being urged to map alternate routes or take light rail until the work is completed.

The rear of a vacant dwelling collapsed as firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze in West Baltimore early Saturday morning, a city fire spokesman said. Firefighters responded to the 600 block of Baker Street at about 5 a.m. and found fire on the top two levels of the three-story brick home, Chief Kevin Cartwright said. The fire was under control by 5:40 a.m., he said, adding that one person was taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center with a non-life-threatening injury.

In this week's State of the Union address, President Obama announced to cheers the formation of a new Justice Department unit tasked with going after the big banks and mortgage companies whose reckless lending led to the collapse of the housing market and caused millions of Americans to lose their homes through foreclosure. The bursting of the housing bubble deepened the recession that began in 2007, and it continues to drag down the economy's recovery. It's about time the people responsible for this mess were held to account.

A vacant single-family home collapsed Wednesday following an early morning fire in Lisbon, Howard County fire officials said. Firefighters responded about 2:30 a.m. to the 16000 block of Old Frederick Road to find the house fully engulfed in flames after a passerby spotted the blaze and called 911, officials said. Units from Carroll County helped to extinguish the blaze, which took about 30 firefighters more than an hour to get under control, officials said. Initial reports show the property was not occupied and did not have sprinklers or smoke alarms installed, fire officials said.

Offensive tackles Bryant McKinnie and Michael Oher have faced their fair share of lethal pass rushers this season, shutting out the likes of the San Francisco 49ers outside linebacking duo of Aldon Smith and Ahmad Brooks and Seattle Seahawks defensive end Chris Clemons. On Sunday, McKinnie and Oher get another test in defensive ends Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis when the Indianapolis Colts visit M&T Bank Stadium. Freeney and Mathis lead Indianapolis in sacks this season with 5½ each.

LaQUINTA, Calif. — After a couple of years of walking under ladders and having black cats cross his path, golfer Bobby Gates took firm hold of a four-leaf clover Monday. He shot a final-round 66 in the PGA Tour qualifying event at PGA West's Jack Nicklaus Course, assuring himself of a top-25 finish, a PGA Tour card and admission into most of the top events in 2012. In golf's version of the Death Valley Marathon, Gates had survived. After six rounds in six days in California desert weather that had varied from a wind tunnel to a picture postcard — often on the same hole — the 25-year-old Texan reversed a personal trend that had put him in the running for golf's Calamity Jane Award.

County police have identified the body found Monday in a collapsed tent under the Route 100 exit ramp off Mountain Road.Tests are being made to determine what caused the death of Robert Joseph Beach, 44, of no fixed address, officials said.Mr. Beach's body was discovered by a Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. worker who regularly saw the man's tent from the road, police said. The worker noticed the tent had collapsed when he passed by around noon and found the body under it, police said.Two Pasadena men charged with stealing steaksPolice arrested two Pasadena neighbors Tuesday and charged them with stealing almost $150 worth of meat from two grocery stores.

Officials at the Naval Academy were awaiting autopsy results yesterday and looking into the circumstances of the death of a student during an early-morning weekend game of touch football.Steven L. Douglas and a group of classmates had been playing on a lighted AstroTurf field at the academy at 12: 45 a.m. Saturday when Douglas collapsed. Paramedics were unable to revive him."The way I understand it, he was playing approximately 10 minutes when he came back to the huddle and collapsed," said Cmdr.

Like most coaches, Randy Edsall can't say all that he feels after losses. He presented a calm exterior, but you wonder what he was really thinking after Maryland lost a 27-point, third-quarter lead in N.C. State's 56-41 victory. The Terps finished the season 2-10. I am going to hazard a guess or two: He may have been feeling that the talent level on this team is not so high. More than one Maryland insider has remarked to me that they believe the group Edsall inherited is not as skilled as fans imagine.   Edsall seemed to hint at this earlier in the season when he said Maryland needed to recruit more speed and athleticism.

Who's to blame is the question of the day in Washington, where Republicans and Democrats have been rushing to point fingers ever since the deficit-cutting supercommittee admitted failure and stopped negotiations. But for the rest of the country, the exercise is not particuarly productive. Both sides took positions and held to them, and both concluded that what the other side proposed was worse than the consequences of failing to reach a deal - about $1.2 trillion in mandatory cuts, split about evenly between domestic programs and defense.