Davidsonville Road

County police have arrested four Pasadena youths in the past two days on charges of leaving bomb threats at their schools.Two George Fox Middle School students were arrested yesterday after they confessed to leaving a note about a bomb in a boys' bathroom, police said. The note was found shortly before 9 a.m.The Queens Park girls, ages 13 and 14, were charged in juvenile citations with falsely reporting a bomb.Their arrests came one day after a 16-year-old boy from Green Haven and a 17-year-old boy from Pine Grove were charged with the same offense after a similar note was found in a boys' bathroom at Northeast High School on Duvall Highway.

Twenty-two people were arrested in two drug raids in the county over the weekend, police said.Thirteen people, all in their early 20s, were arrested when the county narcotics unit and special operations section searched 724 Hyde Park Drive in Glen Burnie at 9: 30 p.m. Friday, police said.The 13 were in the residence at the time, and detectives seized 12 grams of cocaine, a small amount of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and $3,266, they said. All were arrested on charges including possession of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute, police said.

Crofton would gain a main street, more schools and an overpass over Route 3 if recommendations made by a Small Area Planning Committee pass public inspection and are drafted into the county's general development plan.Residents have the opportunity to look over the draft plan recommendations -- a blueprint for the future of the area -- and to write comments between 4: 30 p.m. and 8 p.m. today at a public forum at Crofton Middle School. The comments will guide revisions to the plan before it is sent to the County Planning Advisory Board for review and eventually to the County Council.

County police arrested a Gaithersburg man Friday on charges of breaking into a house in Gambrills and a nearby fire station.Mutema Shadrack Nyankale, 19, of the first block of Gaslight Court was charged with two counts of burglary.Loyal E.Thompson, 66, told police that a man walked into his house in the 2300 block of Davidsonville Road about 6 a.m. When Thompson confronted him in the living room, the man demanded the keys to a car parked in the driveway. Thompson told the man to leave, and he ran away, police said.

The county will begin carving baseball diamonds and fields for football, soccer and lacrosse out of an 80.51 acre tract on Davidsonville Road at 9: 30 a.m. today, when officials break ground for the Crofton Athletic Complex.When the nearly $3.4 million project is complete in spring 1998, it will ease scheduling problems for the Crofton Athletic Council, said Jay A. Cuccia, spokesman for the Department of Recreation and Parks.The council, which sponsors sports teams for about 3,500 youngsters, will be the main user of the three baseball diamonds and four multipurpose fields.

An Odenton girl died Saturday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center from injuries she suffered Friday when she was struck by a car as she crossed Davidsonville Road in Crofton, county police said yesterday.Jennifer Lynne McCormick, 15, of the 1200 block of Hillcrest Road was pronounced dead shortly before 5 a.m. She suffered massive head injuries and a fractured right arm when she was hit by a 1993 Ford Tempo shortly after 6:30 p.m. Friday, police said.The girl was trying to cross Davidsonville Road near Jeffrey Drive when the car, driven by 46-year-old Fay Elizabeth Butcher of Madison, Va., struck her.Jennifer was running from the north side of Davidsonville Road.

An architect last night told the Crofton Civic Association board that the athletic field they are considering as a site for a new Town Hall won't work because the state is unlikely to approve a new entrance on Davidsonville Road.Jon Grant, a Crofton resident advising the Civic Association's ADA committee, said it would be difficult to persuade the State Highway Administration to permit an entrance off Davidsonville Road for the proposed Town Hall at Albert O. Hardy Field because it already has heavy traffic.

A county police officer's patience and quick thinking paid off yesterday when he nabbed a suspect in the robbery of a Deale savings and loan shortly after the holdup.About 10:30 a.m., Officer Stephen M. Torbeck of the Western District heard a lookout for a bank robber broadcast over his police radio. The robber, described as a white man driving a dark red Pontiac Firebird, had just made off with $100 from the Maryland Federal Savings and Loan in the 5800 block of Deale-Churchton Road and was last seen heading north on Davidsonville Road, toward Officer Torbeck's patrol area.

For years, Crofton residents have complained about large trucks rumbling by their community on state Route 3, or using quiet residential streets as a shortcut from Bowie to Annapolis.Now, they say they have a new problem: more and more trucks seem to be stopping. And the drivers are staying for days at a time, leaving their 18-wheel rigs parked at a local shopping center.Crofton officials said they have ticketed the trucks, warned the drivers and contacted trucking companies. Now, police will start towing.

An article about truck traffic on Route 424 in yesterday's Anne Arundel edition gave an incorrect total in an informal survey conducted by a local resident. Mary Mehlman said she has counted as many as 60 trucks an hour passing her Crofton home.The Sun regrets the errors.Large trucks rumbling past homes on Davidsonville Road in Crofton have angered residents who are trying to convince the state to bar the vehicles and force the owners to use alternate routes."It's gotten progressively worse," said Mary Mehlman, co-founder Citizens Against Truck Traffic (CATT)

Two Crofton women died in a single-car accident early Sunday in Gambrills after the car they were in spun out of control and hit several trees, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. The crash was reported about 1:15 a.m. on Davidsonville Road, north of Bottner Road, police said. Rebecca Lynn Moore, 23, was driving her 2007 Hyundai Accent, with Keira Gwenise Mosaid, 19, in the passenger seat. They were traveling south on Davidsonville Road when the car drifted to the right and struck a curb, police said.

Crofton roadwork will begin in July The State Highway Administration will begin early next month a $1.1 million project to resurface and make safety improvements along Route 424 between Route 450 and Route 3 in Crofton. The state will also install an ADA-compliant sidewalk along Davidsonville Road for the length of the project and replace concrete curbs and gutters. Approximately 20,000 vehicles per day travel along Davidsonville Road between Defense Highway and Crain Highway. Motorists should expect lane closures along Davidsonville Road between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays.

An elderly woman and her daughter were in critical condition last night after a dump truck lost control on a rain-slick road in Davidsonville and struck their Chevrolet Caprice head-on, Anne Arundel County police said. The two were among four people sent to area hospitals after the 7:30 a.m. accident, which shut down Davidsonville Road for more than two hours. The Caprice driver, Linda Lea Suit, 62, of Harwood, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where she was being treated for fractures, police said.

Koch Homes has sold 27 single-family homes in its eventual, 67-home development of Crofton Colony in Anne Arundel County. The community is designed for those ages 55 and older who want an active lifestyle. Crofton Colony offers ranch styling. The dimensions are particularly deep for this type of house, the builder says -- 40 feet wide by 60 feet deep. Options include a finished basement, kitchen upgrades, floor upgrades and decks. Prices for the houses range from $347,900 to $372,900.

Crofton would gain a main street, more schools and an overpass over Route 3 if recommendations made by a Small Area Planning Committee pass public inspection and are drafted into the county's general development plan.Residents have the opportunity to look over the draft plan recommendations -- a blueprint for the future of the area -- and to write comments between 4: 30 p.m. and 8 p.m. today at a public forum at Crofton Middle School. The comments will guide revisions to the plan before it is sent to the County Planning Advisory Board for review and eventually to the County Council.

County police have arrested four Pasadena youths in the past two days on charges of leaving bomb threats at their schools.Two George Fox Middle School students were arrested yesterday after they confessed to leaving a note about a bomb in a boys' bathroom, police said. The note was found shortly before 9 a.m.The Queens Park girls, ages 13 and 14, were charged in juvenile citations with falsely reporting a bomb.Their arrests came one day after a 16-year-old boy from Green Haven and a 17-year-old boy from Pine Grove were charged with the same offense after a similar note was found in a boys' bathroom at Northeast High School on Duvall Highway.

Twenty-two people were arrested in two drug raids in the county over the weekend, police said.Thirteen people, all in their early 20s, were arrested when the county narcotics unit and special operations section searched 724 Hyde Park Drive in Glen Burnie at 9: 30 p.m. Friday, police said.The 13 were in the residence at the time, and detectives seized 12 grams of cocaine, a small amount of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and $3,266, they said. All were arrested on charges including possession of cocaine and possession with intent to distribute, police said.

County police arrested a Gaithersburg man Friday on charges of breaking into a house in Gambrills and a nearby fire station.Mutema Shadrack Nyankale, 19, of the first block of Gaslight Court was charged with two counts of burglary.Loyal E.Thompson, 66, told police that a man walked into his house in the 2300 block of Davidsonville Road about 6 a.m. When Thompson confronted him in the living room, the man demanded the keys to a car parked in the driveway. Thompson told the man to leave, and he ran away, police said.

The county will begin carving baseball diamonds and fields for football, soccer and lacrosse out of an 80.51 acre tract on Davidsonville Road at 9: 30 a.m. today, when officials break ground for the Crofton Athletic Complex.When the nearly $3.4 million project is complete in spring 1998, it will ease scheduling problems for the Crofton Athletic Council, said Jay A. Cuccia, spokesman for the Department of Recreation and Parks.The council, which sponsors sports teams for about 3,500 youngsters, will be the main user of the three baseball diamonds and four multipurpose fields.

An architect last night told the Crofton Civic Association board that the athletic field they are considering as a site for a new Town Hall won't work because the state is unlikely to approve a new entrance on Davidsonville Road.Jon Grant, a Crofton resident advising the Civic Association's ADA committee, said it would be difficult to persuade the State Highway Administration to permit an entrance off Davidsonville Road for the proposed Town Hall at Albert O. Hardy Field because it already has heavy traffic.