Dancers

Three Diamond Farm's Private Tale hopped at the start and was last all the way to the far turn, but from there he was relentless in pursuit, weaving through traffic to win Monday's $125,000 Native Dancer Stakes at Laurel Park. Mike Trombetta trains Private Tale, a 5-year-old son of Tale of the Cat, who completed the 1 1/16-mile distance in 1minute, 45.85 seconds. Front-runner Javerre held on to take second, while Adirondack King loomed large in the stretch but had to settle for third.

Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia often delivers the unexpected - even in a show called "Hot Nostalgia II," billed as "an original musical review. " It's all that and more, featuring a kaleidoscope of musical moments from the 1920s through the 1980s, performed by a talented cast backed up by pianist Ross Scott Rawlings and a five-piece combo. The near-capacity audience at a recent Sunday matinee ranged across all ages and shared a common goal of extending celebration of the new year.

Just a few days before their live performances of "The Nutcracker," the intensity and concentration were evident on the faces of the teenage performers at the Carroll County Dance Center in Sykesville. Each of the cast members at this rehearsal had previously performed in the legendary play, and there was a serious overtone to their latest production. This weekend, their steady rehearsal schedule will give way to the center's full-scale presentation of Tchaikovsky's classic. After two years at the Gordon Center in Owings Mills, "The Nutcracker" will return to the local stage on Saturday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 16, 2 p.m. Both performances will be held at the Carroll Community College's Scott Theater, 1601 Washington Road, Westminster.

The world-class ice dancer accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl surrendered himself to New York State Police and was released on $50,000 bond, according to his attorney. Genrikh Sretenski, 50, a Russian-born Olympic competitor who has trained Olympic skaters, appeared in New York Friday morning and was arraigned on sex abuse and related charges stemming from sexual abuse allegations from a July 2011 incident in Lake Placid. The indictment lists the victim at 16-years-old at the time of the alleged abuse.

World-class ice dancer and coach Genrikh Sretenski will be allowed to leave the jail where he has been held since last week, a judge ruled Monday, provided that he surrender himself to New York authorities within 72 hours on criminal charges of sexual abuse and endangering a child. Under conditions set by Howard County District Judge Sue-Ellen Hantman, Sretenski, 50, will have to surrender his passport and post as bond the Clarksville home that he and his wife own. If he doesn't go to New York within three days of leaving the county jail, his family could lose the home.

A world-class ice dancer and figure skating coach is expected in Howard County courtroom on Monday after being accused of sex offenses in New York, charges that come on top of a civil suit alleging that he fondled a figure skater he mentored in Laurel. Genrikh Sretenski, who was born in Russia and placed fourth in the 1988 Olympics, will have an opportunity to ask for bail on felony sex abuse and related allegations. He has been held without bail in Howard County since he was taken in handcuffs Tuesday from his Clarksville home, Rene Sandler, his lawyer, said.

In the days after her sister, Rose, died in a train derailment, Anna Mayr felt as if her younger sibling were upstairs sleeping while friends swapped stories on the family's Ellicott City porch until the early hours of Sunday. Anna Mayr, a May graduate of the University of Maryland, had just moved to New York City to start a career in finance when her father called Tuesday to tell her the unimaginable news: Rose was killed when a CSX train ran off the tracks and buried her and one of her best friends, Elizabeth Conway Nass, in coal.

Cat's looking even more beautiful than usual (which I didn't think was possible) as she welcomes us to tonight's episode with 16 dancers still left in the competition. The opening number has all the dancers dressed like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp and they're using a weird filter to make most of the picture black and white while leaving the open umbrella red. It reminds me of a precious greeting card your grandmother might send you. The routine is a little meh overall, with music that never seems to rise and fall.