Dupree

The way James and Lyla Dupree see it, there's no good reason for Harlem Park Middle School children to be out after 7 p.m.At that hour, they should be at home. Safe. Doing their homework.So, for the last three weeks, the Duprees have driven around Baltimore, knocked on the doors of strangers and asked, "Do you know where your children are?"The Duprees, who raised nine children in a four-bedroom rowhouse in East Baltimore, are doing what they can to keep kids off the streets at night. The Abell Foundation provided a $17,000 grant to get the program off the ground, but James Dupree, 65, is the force behind it.He said he was the person who persuaded local television stations 20 years ago to promo the 11 p.m. news with the question: "Do you know where your children are?"

From the police scanner in their kitchen, the Baltimore County couple -- a police officer and a correctional officer -- overheard a frightening phone conversation. Their next-door neighbor, they said, was plotting their murder.That intercepted call, and a police investigation, led yesterday to the neighbor's conviction for assault, in what Assistant State's Attorney Andy Alperstein called "one of the most unusual cases I've prosecuted."Michelle L. Collins, 27, of the 4000 block of Rustico Road in eastern Baltimore County, was convicted of assault and another charge in the incident in May. She received a suspended 10-year sentence and five years of probation.

Baltimore City Community College coach Roger Dickens doesn't like to talk about last year's dismal six-win season. For a school with a winning basketball tradition, he says there is no place for such bad memories.Besides, this year's team is busy making memories of its own.Anton Jenifer scored a game-high 30 points, and the host Red Devils outscored Montgomery-Rockville, 40-19, at the foul line in a 101-93 win yesterday in the final of the Maryland JuCo Tournament."I'm happy for the kids.

A lot of golfers try their best to get a good night's sleep on the eve of a big tournament. Jamie Green did just the opposite, and the strategy paid off for the Towson junior.Green's four-over-par round of 76 earned him medalist honors in a field of 76 golfers in yesterday's Baltimore County Championships at Oakmont Green in Hampstead."I know when I don't get a lot of sleep and I play the course in my mind, I'm ready for a good round," said Green. "I woke up four or five times last night and played the course in my mind.

Did you know that you should remove the seeds from tomatoes before pureeing, because the seeds will make the sauce bitter? Did you know that using a tall pot to make stock limits evaporation? Did you know that cheeses such as mozzarella and Swiss become stringy when cooked because the heat unwinds proteins that are then linked end-to-end by a calcium compound?You would know these things, and a zillion other arcana of the cooking world, if you hung out for any length of time with Shirley Corriher, the self-described cooking problem solver who's helped Julia Child sweeten her baby spinach, helped Jacques Pepin find his stock bones and helped Nathalie Dupree wash her dishes.

The two women who prayed together yesterday were the most unlikely of spiritual partners -- one, the mother of a teen-ager shot to death Friday, and the other, the mother of the teen police say they believe is the shooter.The women live across the street from each other in their Northeast Baltimore neighborhood of Belair-Edison, but they did not know each other before Friday. That night, police say, Hulbert Stanton-Clark, 19, was shot in the head in the 4100 block of Chesterfield Ave. as he walked home from a basketball game.

In what promises to be a central theme of his campaign for governor, Democrat Parris N. Glendening, through aides and key supporters, has begun depicting Republican nominee Ellen R. Sauerbrey as a right-wing fringe figure outside the mainstream of Maryland voters.The Glendening camp has also started deriding Mrs. Sauerbrey's pledge to slash personal income taxes, ridiculing it as "voodoo economics," a phrase applied by George Bush to Ronald Reagan's economic proposals when both were seeking the 1980 GOP presidential nomination.

THEATERSurreal ShakespeareCenter Stage's production of Shakespeare's "Pericles, Prince Tyre" takes a strange play and makes it stranger. Surrealism has been added to this magical mystery tour of shipwrecks, pirates, miracles and assorted convenient coincidences. The result reaffirms the significance of a disputed work while highlighting its peculiarities. Today's show times are 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; tomorrow's are 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20-$30. For more information, call (410) 332-0033.

Head coach: Gene Blizzard (second season).Assistant coaches: Don Vail, Joe Alex.1991 record: 0-10.Returnees: Seniors Keir Thompson (OB-DB), Dan Durst (FB-LB), Brenton Clark (E-DE), Andy Glenn (OT-DT), Andy Clark (OT-DT), Don Krtanjek (QB-DB), Roy Sampson (OB-DB), Brandon Barrett (G-LB), Matt Dupree (OT-DT), Chris Abel (Line) and Doug Morin (Kicker).Newcomers: Juniors Terry Vail (OB) and Dick Barwick (OB).Coach's outlook: "We don't have a whole lot of experience on this team, so we're just trying to improve.

Edward A. Dupree, energy chief for the city's Urban Services Agency, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Low Income Energy Consortium.The consortium coordinates the efforts of public, private, local and national institutions to find solutions to the energy problems of low-income families.Dupree has been with Urban Services since 1974.

Center Braxton Dupree, who started eight games for Maryland as a promising freshman but played little as a sophomore, has transferred to Towson, the school said Monday. The 6-foot-8 center obtained his release from Maryland in April, but it was uncertain where he was headed until Monday. Dupree (Calvert Hall) had said he wanted to remain close to home. Dupree "has an opportunity to be a real impact player in the [Colonial Athletic Association]," Towson coach Pat Kennedy said in a written statement.

Dupree leaving UM; Vasquez ponders pros col. hoops Reserve center Braxton Dupree left the Maryland program Wednesday, and star point guard Greivis Vasquez is still entertaining the possibility of turning professional. Vasquez, who would be a senior next season, has indicated that he would test the NBA waters and enter the draft but has left the door open for returning to Maryland, implying he does not have an agent. Comcast SportsNet reported that Vasquez has received approval from Terrapins coach Gary Williams to test the draft and Vasquez is not interested in playing overseas.

COLLEGE PARK - If Maryland coach Gary Williams sticks with his plan of using four perimeter players in most games, it means the team's lone big man will have the pressure of being productive on the interior. The play of Maryland's big men in Friday's season-opening, 81-52 win over Bucknell gave more reason for pause than hope going into tonight's game against Youngstown State (0-1) at Comcast Center. Sophomore center Braxton Dupree started the opener and struggled to the point where Williams pulled him for a stretch early in the second half.

Gary Williams said after Saturday's scrimmage that the play of sophomores Braxton Dupree and Jerome Burney, and possibly freshman Steve Goins, will be a key part of Maryland's development. Dupree remains an enigma. As impressed as I was in how he transformed his body during the offseason, losing some 25 pounds, there is still something missing in terms of toughness and heart. Burney plays harder than Dupree, but he still doesn't look like he has much of an offensive game to be a factor.

COLLEGE PARK - In his first few years coaching basketball at Maryland, Gary Williams often talked about the importance of recruiting players out of Baltimore. But after convincing Keith Booth, Rodney Elliot and Juan Dixon to become Terrapins, Williams heard more about the players who left the city for other schools, most notably Towson Catholic's Carmelo Anthony at Syracuse. That will change this season. Freshman Sean Mosley and sophomores Braxton Dupree and Dino Gregory give Maryland the most Baltimore players it has had at one time in Williams' 20 seasons at his alma mater.

College Park -- On Nov. 23, Bambale Osby missed Maryland's victory over Lehigh with a stomach ailment. Aided by antibiotics, Osby, who had been the starting center, was ready to play the next game. But he remained on the bench at the start as Braxton Dupree took his place in a win over Illinois. And that's the way it's been since: Dupree, a freshman from Calvert Hall, starting and Osby, a senior, getting significant playing time as a reserve in name only. If there are bruised feelings about the arrangement, no one is expressing them.

On November 12, 2006 MRS. DUPREE. Visitation at 2140 N. Fulton Avenue on Friday, 2 to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends at Divine Mission Apostolic Faith Church, 1 N. Fulton Avenue on Saturday at 9:30 A.M. Funeral at 10 A.M

You, Me and Dupree should be just the thing for fans of Owen Wilson's stock-in-trade, the self-absorbed, chronic adolescent with - as inevitably revealed in the final act - a heart of pure gold. The rest of the world, however, is going to wonder what all the fuss is about - when the film is not focused on Wilson, it's really not focused at all. This is a comedy ever holding itself in check, filled with plot threads and asides that seem as though they should be funny but almost always fall short of the mark.

A year after a gala reopening and an expensive building renovation, the tearoom at the Woman's Industrial Exchange will serve a last lunch today while the board that runs the historic Charles Street institution searches for a new restaurant operator. The lunchroom, at Charles and Pleasant streets within sight of the Washington Monument, has been a bastion of old Baltimore cooking since the 19th century. It was locally renowned for its dainty chicken salad and tomato aspic platters served weekdays only, but business had been poor recently.

Resplendent in a black tuxedo instead of the desert camouflage he wears in Iraq, Army Spc. Adrian Dupree married Mieasha Pompey before 120 guests last night, the eighth day of his two-week vacation from war. As the bride shook with emotion, the Rev. St. George Crosse performed the ceremony, ending with a prayer as the young couple held each other in a long embrace. Two national television networks and a newspaper photographer recorded the scene. "Go back [to Iraq] knowing that friends and others will be looking out for you, and God will be looking out for you. I talked to Adrian, and he said, `It's my duty to be there,' " Crosse told the crowd at McKenzie's Restaurant, near the Southwest Baltimore neighborhood of Yale Heights, where the couple grew up. Dupree, a reservist in the 352nd Civil Affairs Command based in Riverdale in Prince George's County, was on the first planeload of troops sent home from Iraq for two weeks of rest and relaxation in the midst of their year of service.