Colton

For much of the winter of 1994, East Coast racing has been pummeled by storms and sickness.But a horse named Blushing Julian, who missed prep races because of canceled cards and a quarantine caused by an equine herpes outbreak, demonstrated at Laurel Race Course yesterday that such obstacles can be overcome.The chestnut colt, who hadn't raced in nearly 90 days, made the lead easily in the $200,000 General George Stakes and cruised to a 4 1/2 -length win. Under regular rider Bobby Colton, the horse from the barn of Allen Iwinski, leading trainer at Philadelphia Park, turned in an excellent time of 1 minute, 22 4/5 seconds for seven furlongs on a wet track.

County officials say they're not sold -- yet -- on a developer' plan to build a mix of apartments and stores, including a Wal-Mart, in Parole.Colton and Laskin of Greenbelt, developer of the Harbor Gates apartments in Annapolis, has proposed building a retail and residential complex behind Sam's Club on Generals Highway. The developers say they will follow county-imposed guidelines for channeling and controlling new growth in the congested area.But county planners say the proposed 280,000-square-foot complex of four main stores and about 100 garden condominium units might not meet the intent of those guidelines, which became law three years ago when the County Council designated Parole a special zoning district.

DURING the Civil War, President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, and thousands of Americans merely suspected of disloyalty were thrown into prison, many of them into lock-ups at Fort McHenry. One such victim was a youth whose history is of profound interest to me.I was reminded of his plight on reading Jacques Kelly's articlrecently on the "Occupied Baltimore" exhibit at the Maryland Historical Society. The display recalls the Civil War period when Maryland's Confederate sympathies were kept in check by the force of Union Army occupation.

Builders have a variety of reasons for optimism this year.Despite a bump up in recent weeks, mortgage rates still hover near their lowest levels in nearly two decades; President Bush has proposed a tax credit for first-time buyers to stimulate sales; and 1991, builders figure, was probably as bad as it could get. It was the worst year for housing starts since the end of World War II.Thus, perhaps, it isn't surprising that most of the builders who participated in...

A former Vitarine Pharmaceuticals Inc. official has been charged with three federal false-statement counts tied to substitutions of name-brand drugs for Vitarine's generic products in tests required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.Steven Colton, Vitarine's former vice president and research-development director, was charged Wednesday in a criminal information document, which suggests that he has agreed to plead guilty.He is scheduled to appear May 13 before Judge John R. Hargrove in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, court officials said.

Criminal charges were filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore against the former vice president and director of research and development for Vitrine Pharmaceuticals Inc. of New York, alleging that he submitted rigged test results to win approval of three generic drugs from the Food and Drug Administration.Steven Colton, 39, now living near Denver, is charged in a criminal information with three counts of making false statements to the FDA on three of Vitarine's products: verapamil hydrochloride sustained-release tablets, for angina; albuterol sulfate extended-release tablets, for asthma; and triamterene hydrochlorothiazide capsules, for hypertension.