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Baltimore County police have charged Jeremiah Ezekiel Edwards, 19, of the 7400 block of Berkshire Road in Eastpoint, with first-degree murder and use of a handgun in a crime. Police say on Sept.16, Edwards shot Robert Charles Nelson, 24, of the 7900 block of Lansdale Road in Colgate. Officials responding to a call had found Nelson lying near the curb at Lange Street and Dalton Road. Nelson was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center with he was pronounced dead. Police say Edwards is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center and was denied bail.

Eastpoint Mall, in southeast Baltimore County, was sold at auction Tuesday for $30.3 million, according to the auctioneer. A real estate investment firm based in southern Florida, LNR Property LLC, purchased the mall on the behalf of the lender who foreclosed on the property, said Alexander Forbes, of Tidewater Auctions LLC in Towson. One other bidder actively competed with LNR during the auction process, Forbes said. The auction stemmed from a lender's lawsuit against Thor Equities LLC, the New York-based investment firm that bought the mall in 2006.

R/C's Eastpoint Movies 10 is lifting the curtain on the first of its 10 screens today with the thriller "Crimson Tide," starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman.The movie complex, touted as the largest in Maryland with 52,000 square feet, will open two additional screens on Friday and six more staggered through June 7, the official grand opening. The 10th -- and largest screen -- will open in August with step-graded stadium seating."As far as being the largest theater in the state, if you don't have people buying seats, it doesn't mean anything," said J. Wayne Anderson, chief operating officer of Reisterstown-based R/C Theatres Management Corp.

Eastpoint Mall, in southeast Baltimore County, is being sold at auction on May 29, the auctioneer announced. Tidewater Auctions LLC will conduct the foreclosure sale at 11 a.m. in front of the Bosley Avenue entrance of the Baltimore County Circuit Court in Towson. The auction is the result of a lender's lawsuit against Thor Equities LLC, the New York-based investment firm that bought the mall in 2006. There is 850,000 square feet of leasable space in the shopping center, situated on a 67-acre parcel between Eastern Avenue and North Point Boulevard.

Dr. Maurice Rubenstein, 62, who practiced general dentistry in the Eastpoint area for many years, died of cancer Monday at the Mercy Medical Center.A funeral was to be today at the Levinson funeral establishment, 6010 Reisterstown Road.Dr. Rubenstein, who lived on Beech View Court in Towson, retired in 1988 after practicing in Baltimore and eastern Baltimore County.Born in Baltimore, he was a member of the Class of 1947 at City College. He served with the Army in Japan after World War II as a staff sergeant.

The Baltimore area has become a familiar stop along the Duckpin Pro Bowlers Tour.In each of the past 20 years, Baltimore has been the host of an event over Memorial Day weekend, and this year the Tour makes its second of seven stops at Eastpoint Lanes beginning tomorrow.From here, the competition moves on to Connecticut in June but returns to Maryland in Severna Park and Suitland, before concluding in Hagerstown where the ultimate prize of $5,000 will be awarded.In the qualifying round tomorrow, as many as 140 bowlers from as far north as Lowell, Mass.

A 29-year-old woman was found dead in her Eastpoint home yesterday afternoon, the victim of an apparent homicide, Baltimore County police said. The victim, Melissa Taylor, was found in the upstairs hallway of her home in the 7600 block of Edsworth Road by a family member who had come to check on her, police said. The relative - neighbors said it was her mother - called police about 2:45 p.m. Police said Taylor suffered trauma to the upper body. According to neighbors, Taylor moved into the house about six weeks ago with her 5-year-old daughter, who had gone to spend the weekend with her father.

Leonard Charles Harris, the Eastpoint physician charged with the 1991 rapes of two White Marsh women, has now been charged with a similar attack on a Towson State University student in 1990.Towson State University police charged the 37-year-old doctor after they noticed similarities between the attacks with which Harris was charged by Baltimore County police and the assault on the student.Campus police Chief Stephen J. Murphy noted that the two White Marsh women, attacked in February and November, were assaulted in their homes during the day by a man with a handgun who wore gloves and red mesh material over his face.

A Circuit Court jury awarded $617,852 yesterday to a Baltimore woman who sued her plastic surgeon for injuries suffered after he performed breast reduction surgery on her.A jury of six women also determined that Dr. Denis Franks, a Baltimore physician, was negligent when he reduced Deborah Warehime's breasts at Maryland General Hospital on Nov. 10, 1988.Testimony before Judge Ellen M. Heller showed that Franks took three hours on a procedure that should have taken six hours and that Warehime, 39, required 11 follow-up operations as a result, said Jay D. Miller, Warehime's lawyer.

Entrepreneurs Robin and Arthur Barr were so close to becoming a local retail success story.The Baltimore County couple opened their first record store, Sound Waves, in May 1978 in Ocean City.Over the next 12 years, they added eight record stores in the Baltimore area. For nearly all those years they showed a profit, the Barrs say.Robin, 36, a former special education teacher, and Arthur, 39, a former wholesale record distributor, had realized the American dream of owning their own business.

Baltimore County police have charged Jeremiah Ezekiel Edwards, 19, of the 7400 block of Berkshire Road in Eastpoint, with first-degree murder and use of a handgun in a crime. Police say on Sept.16, Edwards shot Robert Charles Nelson, 24, of the 7900 block of Lansdale Road in Colgate. Officials responding to a call had found Nelson lying near the curb at Lange Street and Dalton Road. Nelson was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center with he was pronounced dead. Police say Edwards is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center and was denied bail.

A pedestrian died after being hit by a motorcycle in Dundalk Friday evening, police said. The crash occurred shortly after 7 p.m. near the intersection of 54th Street and Eastern Boulevard, near Eastpoint Mall, according to Baltimore County police. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, police said. No other information about the incident was available by 10:30 p.m. Friday. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar

A woman was struck and killed by a sport utility vehicle while crossing a Baltimore County street Friday night, police said. Dundalk resident Susan Davis, 45, was walking across North Point Boulevard at about 8 p.m. when an SUV heading south struck her, said a dispatcher for Baltimore County police. The incident took place near Eastpoint Mall. Davis was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. A crash team is investigating the accident. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar

Police in Baltimore County are investigating a quadruple stabbing overnight that officers believe may have involved road rage. Cpl. John Wachter, a spokesman for the county police department, said four people were injured at about 2 a.m. in a stabbing incident near the Eastpoint Mall that may have been sparked by a confrontation in traffic. One person was taken to Franklin Square Hospital Center for treatment and another to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Wachter said, but he could provide no details on the status of the other two people.

Eastpoint Mall in Baltimore said Tuesday it has signed leases with DSW Shoe Warehouse and Burlington Coat Factory. The mall, which is owned by Thor Equities, said it also signed a 15-year lease extension with Value City Furniture. DSW, which is scheduled to open in April, signed a 10-year lease for 18,000 square feet of space formerly occupied in part by Steve & Barry, a clothing store. Burlington Coat Factory signed a 10-year lease to open a 70,000-square-foot store in March. The mall serves about 6 million shoppers a year, according to Thor Equities.

1 The woman had survived cancer but lost her job. That is what she was hoping to replace when she reached out to the Eastpoint Workforce Development Center in Essex for help. But a counselor there learned that the woman was living in her car and immediately found a shelter bed for her. Then he was able to guide her to medical and prescription assistance. Credit A Helping Hand in Hard Times, a new Web tool that is helping Baltimore County staff and job-seekers locate a wide range of emergency assistance.

S'MALL WORLD DAYS: Razzle-dazzle in the shopping world. First, there was the VIP celebration of the renovated Eastpoint Mall, which attracted more than 700 people. Among those partying to a Nifty '50s theme were Congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley, Joe DiCara, Baltimore County Office of Economic Development; Buddy Fine, Buddy's Men's Shop, and Steve Silber, who has opened his second shop, Tops N Bottoms, at Eastpoint. Out-of-towners at the opening included Dorie Bell, Sears' nationwide fashion-show coordinator; Arnold Praever, Shopco Management Corp.

1 The woman had survived cancer but lost her job. That is what she was hoping to replace when she reached out to the Eastpoint Workforce Development Center in Essex for help. But a counselor there learned that the woman was living in her car and immediately found a shelter bed for her. Then he was able to guide her to medical and prescription assistance. Credit A Helping Hand in Hard Times, a new Web tool that is helping Baltimore County staff and job-seekers locate a wide range of emergency assistance.

Stephon Marbury calls the tour that comes to Eastpoint Mall this afternoon the Starbury Movement Tour, because he wants the basketball shoes and clothing he is promoting to clear a path to a new way of marketing and selling such popular gear to lower-income buyers. "To really be honest, this is a people story more than a basketball story," Marbury, the New York Knicks guard, said by phone yesterday. "For us, we don't see it in that [basketball] sense; we see it as being a movement for the people ... a movement for the people who want to have shoes and gear they can afford.

John Edward Oleksik, a retired Bethlehem Steel mechanic who was active in the affairs of St. Casimir Roman Catholic Church and the Catholic War Veterans, died of cancer Wednesday at his Eastpoint home. He was 78. Mr. Oleksik was born in Baltimore and raised near Patterson Park. He attended city public schools and joined the Coast Guard near the end of World War II, where he was an engine room fireman. He drove an oil truck before going to work in 1964 at Sparrows Point, where he repaired trucks and was called "Big John" by his co-workers.