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The No. 7 Eastern Tech football team is undefeated this year in large part because of a powerful running game and a stout defense. Senior quarterback Travis Crane proved that the Mavericks' passing game can't be taken lightly either, throwing for two touchdowns in a 27-0 victory over No. 12 Edmondson last night at CCBC-Essex. The win gave Eastern Tech (12-0) the Class 2A North title. "He's got nerves of steel," Mavericks coach Marc Mesaros said. "He's a tough kid, he doesn't fold under pressure, and we're real proud of him."

With a college degree in hand, you're ready to conquer the real world. Or you snagged that coveted internship and you're ready to experience what the workplace is all about. But before you enter the rat race, there are a few things you probably didn't learn in college that you need to know. I've asked Mary Crane, a business coach and consultant, to provide some advice for young workers on how to get ahead. Crane, a lawyer and former Capitol Hill lobbyist, trains young workers at Fortune 500 companies and law firms on business etiquette and other workplace issues, such as generational concerns.

For the Catholic Worker peace activists who live there, West Baltimore's Jonah House is a place of community, prayer and good works, but to federal probation officials, it is a place of crime.Two former members of the Jonah House community, Susan Crane and Michele Naar Obed, have returned there in defiance of the U.S. Department of Probation, which ordered them not to live in the house after their release from federal prison, where they served terms for civil disobedience.About 20 people, including Crane and Obed, protested yesterday outside the downtown building that houses the federal probation offices, demanding that the probation terms be changed.

A pair of highway accidents -- including an overturned tanker truck and a separate crash that left a White Marsh man trapped beneath tons of metal in his truck-mounted crane -- snared motorists in traffic yesterday along Interstate 95 in Baltimore and Howard counties.In the worst of the two accidents, mid-morning traffic on southbound I-95 was backed up about two hours, from White Marsh to Mountain Road about eight miles away in Harford County.A crane careened off I-95 north of the Baltimore Beltway and skidded to a stop on its side, requiring rescuers to gingerly lift the heavy rig while they cut the driver free from the wreckage.

A 20-year-old Virginia woman staying at a friend's home in Annapolis died of carbon monoxide poisoning early yesterday after her friend's mother left a car running overnight in an attached garage, city police said.Four others -- the woman's friend, Douglas Hickman Jr., 22, his sister Emily, 20, and their parents, Douglas Sr. and Ann, both 50, -- were sickened from the noxious fumes that filled the townhouse in the first block of Chesapeake Landing Way, said Annapolis police spokesman Officer Eric Crane.

A patrolman from Annapolis and a Baltimore officer were the winners at the 42nd annual Baltimore Sun Police Officer of the Year awards ceremony yesterday at Martin's West in Woodlawn.Edgar A. Allen II of the Baltimore Police Department was named Police Officer of the Year, and Patrolman Eric E. Crane of the Annapolis Police Department won the community service award.Allen, 29, a nine-year veteran of the force, works as an undercover narcotics officer. He was nominated by Maj. George L. Klein.

Broadneck's Kevin Peterson and his teammates had a number of factors to overcome in yesterday's Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association's District Five state qualifier tournament -- the weather and 29 other teams.The Bruins, lead by Peterson's 2-over-par 74, managed to shrug off the gusty wind and wet conditions en route to a two-stroke win over Westminster for the tournament championship at Geneva Farm Golf Club in Street.Broadneck shot a four-player combined score of 324 to edge out the Owls' total of 326."

Bid farewell to medalAT THE Annapolis city council meeting Monday night, Mayor Dean L. Johnson doled out awards to several employees who have spent decades working for the city.With pomp and pageantry, Johnson introduced James Butler -- a refuse equipment operator who has spent 42 years with the Department of Public Works -- to receive the longest-serving employee award.As Johnson dramatically hoisted the ribbon to place it around Butler's neck, the silver medal suddenly came loose and fell to the ground.

John Cummings scored five goals and Kyle Bell scored three goals and had two assists as sixth-ranked Loyola won its fifth game in the past six outtings, 15-6, over second-ranked St. Mary's.Loyola improved to 7-3 with its Maryland Scholastic Athletic Association's A Conference win. St. Mary's dropped to 6-2 after a 6-0 start.T.J. Morton scored a goal and had four assists, and Brian Miller had two goals and a pair of assists for the Dons, who have suffered one-goal losses to No. 3 Boys' Latin and Bethesda's Landon, the Washington area's top-ranked team.

A 13-year-old Annapolis boy and an 11-year-old girl were charged with assault on each other after the girl's mother found a hickey on her neck, city police said yesterday.Both sets of parents decided that arresting the children would teach them that kissing at their ages is "unacceptable behavior," police said.The boy and girl, who live in the 400 block of Captain's Circle, were at a friend's house in the neighborhood at 8 p.m. Monday when, according to the police report, the boy left a "passion mark" on her neck "after she told him `no' and he continued against her will."

Crane leads TPC; Woods shoots 71 golf Ben Crane should have known what was coming when he rolled in a 30-foot birdie putt on the first hole of the day. He kept right on pouring them in until he had a 7-under-par 65 and a one-shot lead in The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Crane made four birdie putts longer than 20 feet, kept his ball on land throughout another wild opening round Thursday on the TPC Sawgrass and wound up atop a leader...

Man accused of stabbing security guard arrested 3 Anne Arundel County police arrested yesterday a man accused of stabbing a mall security guard Monday while being detained during a shoplifting investigation. David Isaiah Lamb, 21, of Jessup surrendered to police, and he was charged with first-degree assault and theft, police said. Police were called to Arundel Mills mall in Hanover at 8:17 p.m. Monday for the report of an assault. A mall security officer reported being stabbed in the buttocks while detaining two men accused of shoplifting at the mall's Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse store.

A man operating a crane was critically injured yesterday after being crushed by falling machinery while working in the same Annapolis development where a man was killed in a similar accident last year. The incident occurred as state regulators prepare for a public hearing on stricter safety standards for crane operators. The 46-year-old man was sitting in a compartment of a crane that was preparing to lift heating and cooling units onto the roof of a gym in the Annapolis Towne Centre when a pulley and other parts tumbled down about 7 a.m., fire officials said.

Chris Crane scampered around the left side for a 13-yard touchdown with 22.8 seconds left to help Boston College beat North Carolina State, 38-31, yesterday in Raleigh, giving BC its first Atlantic Coast Conference win and a big boost of confidence for Crane after a shaky start to the season. Crane's third rushing touchdown capped a huge day for the senior quarterback, who also threw for 428 yards and two touchdowns to help the Eagles (4-1, 1-1) hold on despite blowing a 14-point fourth-quarter lead.

More health data sought A state auditor's finding that a private contractor tampered with the numbers in the Family Health Administration's cancer registry has cast a spotlight on the disease registries used to identify and address emerging threats to public health. Experts say the patient data in the nation's cancer registries are vital to their efforts to track trends and focus research and public education. Permit for juvenile program sought A Nevada company that recently purchased the grounds of the Bowling Brook Preparatory School - a Carroll County youth lockup that was shuttered last year after a Baltimore boy died there - has applied for a state license to operate a juvenile program.

Makeda Crane Makeda Crane is a native New Yorker who has made Baltimore her home for the past 10 years. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Crane is also a published spoken-word artist and writer who works in The Sun's editorial department. For this issue of UniSun, she updates us on Devon Brown, a student of the Boys of Baraka school in Kenya. See Page 14. Harold T. Fisher A former anchor for WBFF-TV's Fox 45 Morning News, Harold T. Fisher is a freelance reporter for WHUR-FM in Washington.

HEWITT D. CRANE, 81 Early computer engineer Hewitt D. Crane, an early computer expert, died Tuesday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at his home in Portola Valley, Calif., said his wife, Suzanne Crane. Mr. Crane's career followed the arc of the early computing industry, starting in 1949 with a job at IBM's headquarters in New York City, where he was involved in the maintenance of an early IBM computer composed of 13,000 vacuum tubes and 25,000 relays. In 1952, he went to work at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where he participated in a modification of the von Neumann computer, or JOHNNIAC, named for mathematician John von Neumann.

Gas-main break forces evacuation at building site More than 600 construction workers were evacuated yesterday morning near Annapolis after a contractor struck a natural gas line at a building site where a worker died in a crane accident last week. Anne Arundel County Fire spokesman Lt. Frank Fennell said emergency crews were called to the Parole construction site at 9:17 a.m. after a 2 1/2 -inch gas line was ruptured inside one of two large residential towers. In addition to evacuating the site, a large section of busy Forest Drive was closed to traffic for about two hours.

A construction worker died yesterday after being crushed in a crane high above a building site near Annapolis in an accident that comes as state officials are looking for ways to tighten safety regulations for such heavy equipment. The laborer, identified by police as Denis Umanzor, 44, of Silver Spring, was killed while working at Annapolis Towne Centre, a $400 million residential, office and shopping complex under construction in Parole. Although authorities have yet to determine what went wrong, a portion of a crane apparently came loose and pinned Umanzor as it was being dismantled - a step described by experts as particularly risky.

A while back, a reader in Hamilton asked for the highest wind speed ever recorded in Baltimore. The National Weather Service never got me the answer. So Sun librarian Paul McCardell pulled some clips. Gusts at Friendship Airport (now BWI) reached 84 mph during Hurricane Hazel in October 1954. Winds were clocked at 90 mph June 29, 1980, at Dundalk Marine Terminal, when they toppled an 800-ton container crane. Maybe not the highest winds ever here, but serious contenders.