Crownsville

North County High School freshman Jack Andraka stood on the auditorium stage, speaking about the invention that earned him the $75,000 grand prize at the recent Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Behind him stood Dr. Anirban Maitra, a professor in the Johns Hopkins University's department of pathology who gave Jack use of his lab to craft his invention, a cheap and effective "dipstick-sensor" method of testing blood or urine to identify early-stage pancreatic cancer and other diseases.

Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka of Crownsville won the top prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for designing a new method to detect pancreatic cancer, Intel announced Friday. The fair, held in Pittsburgh, is the world's largest high school science research competition. Jack will receive $75,000 for first place. Jack used diabetic test paper to create a dip-stick sensor to test blood or urine for early-stage pancreatic cancer. It was deemed 90 percent accurate, and is 28 times faster and cheaper and over 100 times more sensitive than tests used now. The senior has a patent pending.

Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka of Crownsville won the top prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for designing a new method to detect pancreatic cancer, Intel announced Friday. The fair, held in Pittsburgh, is the world's largest high school science research competition. Jack will receive $75,000 for first place. Jack used diabetic test paper to create a dip-stick sensor to test blood or urine for early-stage pancreatic cancer. It was deemed 90 percent accurate, and is 28 times faster and cheaper and over 100 times more sensitive than tests used now. The senior has a patent pending.

Along Lyons Creek in southern Anne Arundel County are woods that offer perfect places for migratory songbirds to hide their young, native trees that provide a fruit buffet for critters, and marshes where ducks scour for snacks. One tract in the area recently took on added significance. When Pat Melville placed her land into a program to ensure that no development can occur on it, she created a milestone for a local nonprofit organization. Her 53 acres became the 50th property placed into a conservation agreement with the Scenic Rivers Land Trust, which is holding the easement jointly with the Maryland Environmental Trust.

Lance in hand, she leans forward on a galloping horse, her eyes focused as she spears hanging rings. She captures the small white circles, and a crowd in the stands applauds. Jackie "Maid of Cranwood" Rosenthal is last year's amateur-class state champion in the Maryland Jousting Tournament Association. She will defend the title Saturday, Oct. 2, when the tournament comes to the Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds in Crownsville during the weekend fall craft festival. Rosenthal, a rental property manager from Green Spring Valley, is one of a small number of Marylanders devoted to the official state sport.

Authorites have arrested a 21-year-old Severna Park man accused of stabbing three people during a home invasion in Crownsville. Michael Joseph May of the 200 block of North Drive was detained about 10 p.m. Monday night at the intersection of Patapsco Avenue and 4th Street in Baltimore. He was arrested without incident and is being held without bail at the Jennifer Road Detention Center, charged with attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery and assault. According to police, two men forced their way into a mobile home early Sunday morning in the area of Summer Hill Trailer Park.

An accused Crownsville burglar returned to the scene of the crime Thursday to apologize to his victim and was arrested, Anne Arundel County police said Friday. Officers responded to a call for a burglary in progress in the 500 block of Saw Mill Lane in Crownsville around 3 p.m. The homeowner told police that as she was arriving home, she saw two men leaving with items from the house, but once they saw her, they dropped many of the items and ran away, police said. The homeowner told police that she recognized one of the burglars as Philip Fox, 20, but said she did not know the other burglar.

A man was shot at a party in Crownsville early Saturday, but details on the incident remain sketchy, Anne Arundel County Police said. Officers went to the Anne Arundel Medical Center emergency room around 3:15 a.m. Saturday to meet the victim and his female friend, both 20, police said. They told police they were at a party at the Summerhill Trailer Park and went outside. There, they heard a loud bang, and quickly left the party along with everyone else, police said. The man told police he realized he had been shot when his back started hurting on the way home.

Some of the nation's top archaeologists and anthropologists will meet tomorrow in Crownsville to discuss discoveries in Virginia and elsewhere that suggest that people arrived in the Americas as many as 30,000 years ago -- more than twice the conventional estimate.The daylong symposium begins at 8: 30 a.m. at the People's Resource Center, 100 Community Place. Directions and information: 410-514-7661.Pub Date: 4/17/98

Mental health professionals, advocates and Anne Arundel County residents had a strong message for the state Wednesday night: "Don't close Crownsville!"During a 90-minute hearing in Annapolis attended by about 65 people, 12 of the 15 who testified opposed closing the psychiatric hospital on sprawling grounds in central Anne Arundel County."I am here to testify that Crownsville works," said Micheal Blain, a former patient who now works there. "Crownsville Hospital Center is a special place serving the unique needs of a diverse community."

Adventist Behavioral Health said it will close its residential treatment facilities and school in Crownsville later this year, moving the teen-agers it serves to locations in Rockville and in Cambridge on the Eastern Shore. The nonprofit, part of Rockville-based Adventist HealthCare, said demand is waning for residential psychiatric and behavioral treatment in favor of outpatient care. It intends to increase such community-based offerings as it consolidates residential options. Kevin Young, president of Adventist Behavioral Health, said the 30-bed residential treatment center and 18-bed group home would be phased out over the next several months as patients are moved one by one, rather than en masse.

A man was shot at a party in Crownsville early Saturday, but details on the incident remain sketchy, Anne Arundel County Police said. Officers went to the Anne Arundel Medical Center emergency room around 3:15 a.m. Saturday to meet the victim and his female friend, both 20, police said. They told police they were at a party at the Summerhill Trailer Park and went outside. There, they heard a loud bang, and quickly left the party along with everyone else, police said. The man told police he realized he had been shot when his back started hurting on the way home.

Comptroller Peter Franchot's concerns about half-million-dollar piano procurement at a multi-million-dollar performing arts center may look politically correct, but what about the serious waste of money for Gov. Martin O'Malley's impending move of the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development from Crownsville to New Carrollton? Not only is it unnecessary and costly, it reminds the taxpayers that their interests are always the last considered by this budding political lackey.

Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold is skeptical of the decision to move two state agencies out of his county - and for good reason. In the case of the Department of Housing and Community Development's planned relocation to Prince George's County, he raises legitimate questions of cost and political favoritism that deserve closer scrutiny. But don't expect that closer scrutiny to come from the General Assembly. The DHCD's move to New Carrollton, announced nearly one year ago, has all the look of a political decision - the fulfillment of a five-year-old campaign promise from Gov. Martin O'Malley that fellow Democrats are unlikely to question, no matter how expensive it turns out to be or how much fuss a Republican county executive might make in the media.

The state is planning a new building in Prince George's County to house the state Department of Housing and Community Development, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Monday. The agency, which employs 385 workers, will move from Crownsville to New Carrollton next fall, O'Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown said. The new building, to be called Metroview, is to be built near the Orange Line and the proposed Purple Line of the Washington Metro. O'Malley called it a "modern investment" that will "allow us to do the right thing for reducing traffic and sprawl, the right thing for our quality of life, and the right thing for our land, our water, and our air. " Metroview is to be developed by Carl Williams of Grand Central Development, the governor's office said.

The band members met for the first time just two hours ago, but they're already hard at work on a rock classic, and to be honest, it's not sounding half-bad. A rhythm guitarist pounds out G and F chords. A bass player settles on a solid beat. A singer steps up to the mike. "The things they do look awful c-cold," he croons, sounding every inch a latter-day Roger Daltrey, longtime frontman of The Who. "Hope I die before I get old. " But something's amiss with the keyboard player.

Lost in the debate over whether to close Crownsville Hospital Center or one of the other two state mental institutions in Central Maryland is the fate of the people these facilities are intended to serve -- the severely mentally ill.At a hearing last month in Annapolis, the clear sentiment was to keep Crownsville open. Some residents fear that if the hospital is closed, bureaucrats will find other less desirable uses for the property. Crownsville is also a large employer, so workers are concerned about their jobs.

David Boschert, who formerly served Anne Arundel County in the Maryland House of Delegates as a Republican and was earlier on the County Council as a moderate Democrat, died of liver and pancreatic cancer Thursday evening at his Crownsville home. He was 63. A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10 a.m. July 9 at Our Lady of the Fields Roman Catholic Church, 1720 S. Cecil Ave. in Millersville. Viewings will be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. July 7 and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. July 8 at the Hardesty Funeral Home, 12 Ridgely Ave. in Annapolis.

Lance in hand, she leans forward on a galloping horse, her eyes focused as she spears hanging rings. She captures the small white circles, and a crowd in the stands applauds. Jackie "Maid of Cranwood" Rosenthal is last year's amateur-class state champion in the Maryland Jousting Tournament Association. She will defend the title Saturday, Oct. 2, when the tournament comes to the Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds in Crownsville during the weekend fall craft festival. Rosenthal, a rental property manager from Green Spring Valley, is one of a small number of Marylanders devoted to the official state sport.