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Man, daughter, killed in crash of antique car A 62-year-old Bowie man and his 10-year-old daughter were killed Tuesday night in Howard County when the antique car they were riding in was struck from behind and overturned on Interstate 70 near the Route 97 exit in Lisbon. About 6:30 p.m., Richard Thomas Dashiell of the 11000 block of Saturn Way was driving east in the far right lane when his 1929 Model A Ford was hit by Paul Davis of Glen Burnie, police said. Witnesses told police that Dashiell's vehicle was going about 50 mph when it was hit. Dashiell and his daughter, Amelia, were thrown from the vehicle.

Soon after he turned 18, Charles Yi Barnett told his mother he wanted to join the Army. "I said 'No, you're not going anywhere,' " said his mother, Ipun "Yvonne" Dashiell. She forced one military recruiter to leave her home, but the teenager was determined to enlist. He left for basic training almost exactly a year ago, and in May he was sent to Iraq. Late Thursday, military officials went to his mother and stepfather's Bel Air home with grim news: The 19-year-old had died that day of injuries he received in Tallil in a noncombat incident.

Mount St. Joseph has shown a knack for come-from-behind wins. Why should a championship game be any different? The No. 8 Gaels (18-5-1) spotted defending champion and No. 4 McDonogh (16-7-1) a one-goal lead, then scored three straight goals to earn a 3-2 victory and the MIAA A Conference soccer championship at Homewood Field yesterday. The win gave Mount St. Joseph its first soccer title since 1978. The Gaels advanced to the final by spotting Loyola a 1-0 lead en route to a 3-1 win. They also allowed other teams leads during the regular season before rallying to victory.

The phone call last week came as a shock. One of the last things Melissa and Maurice Dashiell wanted to hear from their homebuilder's salesman was that the company, NVR L.P., had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.But by Sunday, the young couple were feeling confident. They drove to King's Charter, the Bel Air subdivision where the foundation for their four-bedroom colonial had been poured recently. They were pleased to see that the wood for framing the home had been delivered on time.

In an unusually quiet political preseason, Baltimore County school board member Robert Fulton Dashiell has launched what might turn out to be the county's fiercest primary election challenge.The 49-year-old Villa Nova resident's target is state Sen. Delores G. Kelley, a well-connected west-side Democrat, who is also hitting the streets in her campaign to retain a district that stretches from West Baltimore to Randallstown.Kelley, 62, is an articulate, eight-year legislator with strong support both from her district's delegates and from popular Democratic County Executive C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger.

LOCHEARN -- School board member Robert Fulton Dashiell's campaign against incumbent state Sen. Delores G. Kelley, a 10th District Democrat, has run afoul of county sign laws to the tune of $8,000.The county accuses Dashiell's Democratic campaign of placing 40 signs in the public right of way along the Liberty Road corridor from Patterson to Washington avenues on June 24 and 25. A hearing on the citation is scheduled for Aug. 18, said James H. Thompson, county inspections supervisor.Julius Henson, campaign manager for Dashiell, said he always has cooperated with county officials, and complained that the citation represents "harassment" and "lack of due process."

Parent must control unruly school conductLet me get this straight.Jerrell Murray, a solidly-built six-year-old, has had problems since pre-school. He has assaulted teachers, administrators and other students. He has a history of being disruptive.A psychologist suggests special education services and counseling for aggressive behavior by someone prepared to intervene physically. His parents have been unable to attend meetings to discuss Jerrell's progress and school board member Robert Dashiell wonders how a school system can allow a child's problems to reach this stage.

Herbert L. Singleton Jr., the special assistant to the president of Sojourner-Douglass College and a community activist, died in his sleep Wednesday of an apparent heart attack at his Belvedere Square home. He was 56. Mr. Singleton advised the East Baltimore school for the past 15 years and helped create a scholarship program for public housing residents striving for a college education. Born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in the Cherry Hill and Edmondson Village neighborhoods, he was a 1965 graduate of City College.

Jerrell Murray was acting up at school one Friday, as was his custom. He hit his teacher, then head-butted the assistant principal in the face. But this time, he wasn't just sent to the office or suspended.He was placed face down on the floor by a police officer, he says, handcuffed around the wrists and ankles, carried out of the school and taken to a hospital.Jerrell is 4 feet tall, 65 pounds and 6 years old.His parents say the response to the May 17 incident at Woodmoor Elementary School was abuse and worry about potential long-term effects on a boy who already has his share of emotional problems.

Despite its $1.4 million worth of bad loans, missing records and other problems, the embattled Council for Equal Business Opportunity appears to have regained federal funding.CEBO, a private non-profit organization, was created 24 years ago as a lender and adviser to high-risk minority businesses in Baltimore that cannot get bank financing.The organization relies on public money and until yesterday had faced extinction because the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development cut off funding last year.