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The Susquehanna Region Private Industry Council will be able to hire 300 more youths in its Summer Youth Employment and Training Program (SYETP).SYETP consists of summer jobs and work experience for economically disadvantaged Harford and Cecil County youth between the ages of 14 and 21, who receive resource services in school or who meet Federal income eligibility requirements.The program will run approximately six weeks, from June 28 to Aug. 6, 1993. Participants will be employed by the SRPIC but will work at non-profit agency and organization sites in the two-county area.

Here's what umpire crew chief Gerry Davis told me about the delay on today's replay review on Rays right fielder Matt Joyce's eventual home run ball in the Orioles' 3-1 loss to the Rays: "[Orioles manager] Buck [Showalter] wanted to know whether the ball was, in fact, fair. We got together as a crew to discuss whether the ball was fair or foul, whether any of us had anything differently than [first-base ump Dan Iassogna] had. We did not. So the ruling on the field was that it was a fair ball in play.

Since the last big snowstorm, city crews have been focusing on clearing snow and not tending to public parks. But crews will get back to picking up trash and will begin clearing snow in the parks beginning Monday, said Michelle Speaks-March, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore Department of Recreation and Parks. Crews normally pick up trash every day in the eight biggest parks and once a week in 33 smaller ones. But they haven't collected any since the snow, and many cans - particularly in parks with a lot of dog walkers - are overflowing.

Baltimore County police said a man was found dead in Chevy Blazer in White Marsh Saturday morning. An officer found the man unresponsive in the SUV along with three hand-written notes. The contents of the notes were not released but police spokesman Cpl. John Wachter said they prompted the officer to call for backup. The county's bomb squad and hazmat crews responded to the SUV, which was parked in the area of Crossroads Circle and Williams Court, near White Marsh Boulevard. "It doesn't seem like they recovered anything," such an explosive device from the vehicle, Wachter said.

Baltimore City firefighters quickly brought a basement fire in a Govans rowhouse under control Wednesday morning. Crews responded at 7:25 a.m. to the fire in the 700 block of Beaverbrook Road. No injuries were reported. Mary.gail.hare@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Baltimore County was scheduled to begin repairing 7,500 feet of deteriorating water line on Kenilworth Drive in Towson this week. The $4.9 million project won't be completed until fall. The water line is a major conduit that serves commercial and residential properties north of the Baltimore Beltway between Falls and Dulaney Valley roads, according to county engineers. The contractor, American Infrastructure of Fallston, will bring in heavy equipment to slip-line the 48-inch diameter pipe with new steel.

Trying to stay ahead of Tuesday night's snowfall, local and state road crews were out plowing and salting main roadways to prepare for this morning's rush hour. The National Weather Service ar Sterling, Va., predicted between 2 and 4 inches of snow throughout the Baltimore metro area before it tapers off about 7 a.m. Adrienne Barnes, spokeswoman for the city's Department of Transportation, said 125 city vehicles were put into service as the snow began to fall and were plowing or salting main roadways and interstates.

The right lane of southbound Reisterstown Road has been closed south of Greenspring Valley Road in Baltimore County while crews repair a water main break, according to a Baltimore public works spokesman. Only the left lane remains open to traffic. There is both an 8-inch service line and a 16-inch main in that area.

In Baltimore, road crews were starting to wrap up salting and plowing operations, with most roads expected to be done by 11 a.m. “It's turning into a rain event,” said Adrienne Barnes, a spokeswoman for the city's Department of Transportation. She said crews will be working throughout the day and night, but they will be hitting targeted, problem areas, instead of cruising the streets. Barnes said that all primary and secondary roads were salted and plowed by this morning and as of 10 a.m. crews were responding to individual calls for service or complaints.

Baltimore City fire crews recovered a car that had gone over a guardrail into the Gwynns Falls on Tuesday, but did not recover a driver, a spokesman said. The vehicle went over a guardrail in the 3900 block of Hilton Parkway near Franklintown Road at about 6 p.m. and into the Gwynns Falls, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, spokesman with the Fire Department. But after a long search, Cartwright said no driver turned up. Crews searched the area along the Gwynns Falls using ground and air resources for several hours.

An Aberdeen EMS crew locked itself in its ambulance Tuesday night when it arrived at a call in Perryman and encountered a large fight. The ambulance was responding for a call of a sick woman in the 400 block of Daugherty Lane around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to Richard Gardiner of the Harford County Volunteer Fire & EMS Association and Edward Hopkins, spokesman for the Harford County Sheriff's Office. When they arrived, the EMS crew reported people were fighting in the road and they "locked themselves in the unit for their own safety," Gardiner said.

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating whether the body of a man that washed up against a homeowner's pier in southern Anne Arundel County on Thursday is that of a crew member who went missing from a commercial container ship late last year. Officials with the state's Department of Natural Resources Police alerted the Coast Guard of the body, which was found in Deale, about 7:40 p.m. Thursday, said Lt. Peter Francisco, a Coast Guard marine investigator. "Whenever there is a body recovered, that's cross-referenced against all missing people that the Coast Guard has searches for," Francisco said.

The final score was a bummer for the Orioles: Yankees 3, O's 0 in the rubber match of the three-game series. And the weather in Yankee Stadium was chilly and breezy, better suited for football. But the Orioles had so many nice things said about them in their first nationally televised Sunday night game in five seasons that they probably hated to leave the Bronx. As The Baltimore Sun's Ed Encina reported, Orioles such as center fielder Adam Jones made it clear they understood this was not just another game . "It's 'Sunday Night Baseball,'" Jones said.

Anne Arundel County Fire officials said Wednesday at 5 p.m.  that crews had controlled an outdoor brush, wood and mulch fire in the 700 block of Pittman Road, near Arundel Cove and Curtis Bay. According to Division Chief Keith D. Swindle, the department received a call at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, for a fire at NOVA Recycling, in the 700 block of Pittman Road in Curtis Bay. Crews arrived at the scene to find a “heavy volume of fire” from...

An underground electrical fire was reported beneath the Sheraton City Center hotel Wednesday morning, but city emergency officials said it posed no danger to hotel guests. Half a dozen fire vehicles and a Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. truck surrounded the entrance to the hotel about 9:30 a.m, blocking several lanes of traffic in the 100 block of W. Fayette St. downtown. Hotel staff said guests had not been evacuated and were not affected. The Baltimore Mayor's Office of Emergency Management said via Twitter about 9:40 a.m. that firefighters were awaiting the power to be shut off before they could extinguish the fire.

Eleven years ago, Navy Capt. Barbara "Bobbie" Scholley dived more than 230 feet into the ocean to help bring back the past: two sailors killed when their Civil War battleship sank in 1862. On Friday, the Annapolis woman joined the crew members' descendants and dignitaries to usher them into eternity. The two sailors, whose remains were recovered from the wreckage of the USS Monitor in 2002, were buried at Arlington on Friday, 151 years after the ship battled the Confederate ironclad Virginia in the critical Battle of Hampton Roads, which revolutionized naval warfare.

Baltimore County Fire Department crews knocked down three of the four walls of the old Seagram's Building in Dundalk after a two-alarm fire Friday. The building was part of the National Distillers Products, commonly known as Seagram's, distillery buildings at 7100 Sollers Point Road. The five-story building that caught fire was vacant and no one was inside at the time the blaze began, according to a statement from Elise Armacost, spokeswoman with the Fire Department. No injuries were reported.

Thank you, Steven Frank of Fulton for you recent letter ("Instead of whining about outages, thank BGE, work crews," Aug. 2). This storm was a pain for all of us, caused problems for everyone and still has evidence scattered here and there. If the public wants to be angry with BGE, so be it. However, as Steven Frank wrote, we should all be grateful to those great guys who stepped up from here and all the other states who come in and tried to clean up the mess and get us back to normal again.

Several closures have been announced in Carroll County due to inclement weather on Wednesday, March 6. Carroll County Public Schools and offices, including the Central Office, are closed today, March 6. Gerstell Academy in Finksburg is closed. Carroll Community College and its Mount Airy Center are closed today. All classes and activities are canceled. Students should check Blackboard for instructor information. McDaniel College is closed through 11 p.m. Wednesday. All undergraduate and graduate classes are canceled, and Wednesday evening's performance of the play, "The Sleep of Reason," is also canceled.

Crews have completed repairs to a leaking water main that had slowed traffic along Park Heights Avenue and Old Court Road in Pikesville, according to public works officials. The repairs were completed about 11 p.m. Wednesday, said Kurt Kocher, a Baltimore City public works spokesman. State highway officials had cautioned motorists to expect major delays near Old Court Road and Park Heights Avenue as crews worked to repair the main. The water main is located on Old Court. Public works crews closed several lanes in the area, including access to southbound Park Heights Avenue south of Old Court, according to the State Highway Administration.