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A 26-year-old Taneytown man was sentenced yesterday to serve three consecutive 18-month terms at the Carroll County Detention Center on multiple convictions, including the theft of four contractors' work vans that had been left running in the cold weather last winter, a county prosecutor said. David Robert Leatherman of the first block of Fairground Ave. was convicted in August of theft of motor vehicles - three from homes and one near a convenience store, said Jennifer L. Darby, assistant state's attorney.

On September 1, 2003, MARJORIE E. MEEKINS (nee Edmondson), beloved wife of Walter V. Meekins; devoted mother of Winnie Wood Mitchell and her husband Paul of Burke, VA and the late Lillian Darby Steele and Minos "Bud" Darby; dear step mother of W. Clifford Meekins and his wife Jean Cotys Meekins; also survived by several grandchildren and great grandchildren. A Funeral Service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Ave on Friday at 10 A.M. Interment Meadowridge Memorial Park.

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- For the Baltimore Spirit, the United States Youth Soccer Region I championships have become a numbers game. It's not how many goals the team can score -- it managed five in two games yesterday. It's whether the Spirit can find 11 players to put on the field.Dan Hicks converted Matt Nesbitt's cross in injury time as the Spirit salvaged a 2-2 with Northern Virginia's Braddock Road Falcons in a under-20 match yesterday afternoon at Fort Niagara Park. Earlier, Shane Dougherty scored twice and Mike Barger added one as the Spirit defeated the Boston Volcanos, 3-0.The Spirit brought only 10 field players and two goalkeepers after three players canceled at the last minute because of injury or scheduling conflicts.

Two more Laurel teen-agers have been arrested on murder charges in connection with a brutal group attack on a Salvadoran immigrant dishwasher there two weeks ago, police reported.The suspects arrested Friday -- identified as Steven Wayne Darby, 16, of the 11600 block of S. Laurel Drive, and David Eugene Burley, 19, of the 15100 block of Kalmia Drive -- bring to seven the number of teen-agers jailed in the death of Gilberto Hernandez, 35.Like the others, Darby and Burley were charged with murder, armed robbery and assault.

IRVING, Texas -- Matt Darby fell down and was slapped by an angry Jay Novacek at the 1-yard line, but that didn't stop him.Darby jumped back up with the ball he had just intercepted for the Buffalo Bills and ran downfield throughout the stunned silence that enveloped Texas Stadium, leaping and shouting for 60 yards."

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Sgt. Joseph M. Darby, the young Army reservist who has been hailed and condemned for blowing the whistle about detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, testified yesterday that he deliberated for more than a month about whether to go to Army investigators but finally decided it was a "moral call." Testifying for the first time publicly about the international scandal that his initially anonymous tip touched off, Darby said he was stunned when he discovered the now-notorious photos showing hooded and naked detainees piled in a pyramid and forced to simulate sex acts as grinning U.S. soldiers stood by. "It violated everything that I personally believed in and everything that I had been taught about the rules of war," Darby, 24, testified by telephone at a pretrial hearing for Pfc. Lynndie R. England, one of seven of Darby's fellow soldiers from the Western Maryland-based 372nd Military Police Company who has been charged in the scandal.

Columbia will look to add a few regional soccer titles to itsnumerous state accolades when four of its recreation teams compete in the Eastern Regional Championships at Rider College in New Jersey this weekend.After qualifying in the recent State Cup tournaments, the Crusaders (under-19 girls), Spirit (under-15 girls), Darby (under-15 boys) and Chargers (under-17 girls) will compete against teams from 16 states in this season-ending event.The Crusaders seek their first regional title after dominating the state once again.

Remember all the advice your mother gave you about getting along with others? That no good ever comes from gossip, and how, if you couldn't say something nice about a person, it was better to say nothing at all?Well, Mom may have known manners, but she didn't know beans about marketing.Just ask Kerin Morataya and Darby Romeo. So far, the two have made a second career out of saying not-very-nice things about Shannen Doherty, the bad-publicity-prone actress who plays Brenda Walsh on the Fox series "Beverly Hills, 90210."

This is the tale of two short-sleeved dress shirts.One uncompromising, one generous.One Euro and one consummately American.One moody, one good-natured.One with short, fitted sleeves; one with boxy, expansive sleeves.One made for plain-front trousers, one for pleated trousers.Which shirt do you favor for a Baltimore spring and summer?The answer may depend on how well you know your way around a Nautilus.Either way, this season's shirt expedition is bound to yield a bounty of scrumptious colors, luxurious natural fibers and accessory musts.

While most soccer enthusiasts are focusing on the 15th World Cup this Fourth of July weekend, the Columbia Darby -- an under-16 boys soccer team -- will be eyeing a U.S. Youth Soccer Association Eastern Regional Championship and a berth in next month's national tournament.Columbia (22-2), which advanced to the national qualifier by defeating Olney of Montgomery County, 3-0, in last month's Maryland State Cup title game, will take part in the four-day tournament, which begins tomorrow at three sites in New Jersey.