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It was an evening filled with Christmas spirit(s) as Santa Claus Anonymous held its eighth annual wine tasting. About 250 folks toasted the season with samples of Maryland and California wines and beers from local microbreweries. Even Santa took a break from his usual cookies-and-milk diet, taste testing one of the night's offerings, while dispensing chocolate candy kisses to the crowd.Sipping Christmas cheer: Jill Myrick, Santa Claus Anonymous president; Vince Columbia, SCA board president; Jim Russell, George Dabney, Wayne Walters and Bob Booker, board members; Laurie Columbia, event chair; Barbara Brown, event committee member; Dallas Arthur, Carrollton Bank president and CEO; Mimi Daniel, vice president of Siquis Ltd.; Don Scott, WJZ-TV news anchor; and Satish B. Parekh, Baltimore-area corporate strategist.

On June 18, 2009 MARSHALL CLAYTON ROOP, JR. loving husband of Barbara "Bobbie" Lynn Roop (nee Mouat); devoted father of Ruth Ann Reitz, Emily Sullivan, Margaret Dabney, Jacqueline Isola and Christine Robinson; dear grandfather of Benjamin, John, Patrick, Owen, Sara, Allie, Erin, Nicholas and Lauren, Kaitlin and Megan; brother of Elizabeth Steele and Sara Kellen. Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Road (Beltway Exit 26) on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held on Monday at Hunt's Memorial United Methodist Church in Riderwood, 1912 Old Court Road at 2 p.m. If desired, contributions may be made to The McDonogh School Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 380, Owings Mills, MD 21117.

A man charged in warrants with carjacking and the attempted murder of a Baltimore police officer, who was dragged nearly a block by the car and shot the suspect, was arrested last night while undergoing treatment at a local hospital, police said.Sgt. Steven A. Lehmann of the homicide squad said William Sylvester Dabney, 42, of no fixed address was recognized by a police officer, who was working overtime at Liberty Medical Center in Northwest Baltimore. Dabney was arrested about 9 p.m.Police spokeswoman Agent Angelique Cook-Hayes detailed the incident that led to the arrest:About 9: 30 p.m. Saturday, Sheree Patterson, 23, of the 2600 block of Lauretta Ave. was sitting in the driver's seat of a 1992 Dodge outside a convenience store in the 2900 block of Garrison Blvd.

Chew on this urban legend: There are more restaurants in downtown Bethesda than downtown Denver. So what? Ask that when you're heading out after work for the usual peanuts-on-the-floor happy hour. Or on a Saturday night, when going out to the same-old, same-old has you sighing. Or Sunday morning, when your joie de vivre matches the nooks and crannies of the beige English muffin on your plate. With Bethesda as your place mat, you could go entire months without seeing the same food twice.

LAKELAND, Fla. - Bowie State's magical ride in the NCAA Division II basketball tournament ended last night. Tall, gifted and deep, Kentucky Wesleyan clinched its sixth straight appearance in the championship game, ousting the Bulldogs with second-half domination of their semifinal match at the Lakeland Center, 84-64. "We gave it our best shot," said Bowie coach Luke D'Alessio. "Their program is in place and we're still growing." Said Bulldogs star Tim Washington: "This has been one of the best experiences in my life.

The conflict between a woman's inner good girl and inner bad girl is a great movie subject. Unfortunately, it remains untapped in Domino, the "inspired-by-fact" story of a ferocious female bounty hunter who in the end displays a heart of tarnished gold. Domino (Keira Knightley), the daughter of a British movie star, Laurence Harvey (Room at the Top, The Manchurian Candidate), and a London model (played by Jacqueline Bisset), chucks pampering and privilege to grab fugitives and bail-jumpers off the mean streets and out of the crummy motels and trailer parks of the American West.

The three stories of William Styron's "A Tidewater Morning" were published separately over nine years in Esquire; the first appearing in 1978, the last in 1987. Perhaps only now, collected in a single volume, can we see how rich and remarkable they are.Mr. Styron has not published much since "Sophie's Choice" 14 years ago. There was a collection of essays, and a brief, lucid account of an episode of clinical depression. To revive three old short stories might be taken as a minor tidying on behalf of a remarkable but never prolific writer.

Five inmates, all with less than a year left to serve, escaped from the state prison system's Baltimore Pre-Release Unit early yesterday, correction officials said.The inmates left the Pre-Release Unit between 1:45 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. yesterday, said state police Sgt. Gregory M. Shipley, spokesman for the Division of Correction.The Pre-Release Unit on Greenmount Avenue in East Baltimore is a minimum-security institution, and more than half of the 213 inmates currently assigned there hold jobs outside its walls during the day, Sergeant Shipley said.

Lights! Camera! Party action! Hollywood glamour combined with Baltimore glitz as the exhibition, "Filming Maryland," had its preview with a "Silver Screen Party" at the Maryland Historical Society. About 400 guests were greeted by "paparazzi" outside before getting a chance to see the exhibit, which featured props and photographs from movies about, and filmed in, Maryland. Among the movie fans at the premiere: Barbara Katz and Marcy Sagel, event co-chairs; Dean Alexander, Dolores DeLuxe, Rebecca Jessop and Dabney Neblett, event committee members; Stan Klinefelter, Maryland Historical Society board chair; Greg Barnhill, board member; Dennis Fiori, Historical Society director; Leith Johnson, exhibition curator; John Waters, Baltimore filmmaker; Pat Moran, Baltimore casting director; Mary Vivian Pearce and Sue Lowe, actors; Mike Styer, Maryland Film Office director; Jed Dietz, Maryland Film Festival founder; Steve Yeager, Baltimore filmmaker; Michael Johnson, Heritage Film Museum director; Bob Adams, owner of Flashback, a Fells Point store; David Cordish, Cordish and Associates president; Ken Conklin, Pier 5 Hotel general manager; and Dr. Julia McMillan, associate professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.