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Farmville, Va. -- Two misdemeanor charges against Todd Bozeman were dismissed yesterday after the Morgan State men's basketball coach reached a financial settlement with a manager of a nearby restaurant and issued a courtroom apology. "Your honor, I would like to apologize to Mulligan's [restaurant]," Bozeman said in a brief proceeding that followed negotiation of an undisclosed settlement with Stephanie J. Schreck. Afterward, Bozeman declined to comment. "It was all about a misunderstanding about a sandwich [order]

In the past five years, the so-very-English ritual of afternoon tea has become a popular social event.Tearooms offer scones with clotted cream and jam, fresh fruit, cheese and crackers, truffles, chocolate-dipped strawberries and pastries. But it's the tea sandwich that takes center stage.Delicate and dainty, it can be filled with just about anything -- from a heavenly rich salmon pate to come-and-get-it peanut butter and jelly.For the at-home tea, making wonderful sandwiches is a matter of timing, organization, experimenting with breads and fillings, and knowing how to present the assembled sandwiches, according to Carol Cox and Anne Ennis, tea-sandwich experts extraordinaire.

Katharine Smeten was just a schoolgirl in saddle shoes and bobby-sox when she and her Towson Catholic High buddies each paid a dime to see Frank Sinatra perform with the Harry James Orchestra at the Hippodrome Theater.The last time she saw him, at the Sands Hotel in Atlantic City, she paid $200 for her ticket. In between, there were another 64 shows.Yesterday, the news of Sinatra's death hit Smeten hard."I'm telling you, when I heard it on the radio, I felt part of my family died," the 70-year-old Towson widow said.

IN AN AGE when most talk of families includes the word "dysfunctional," Bill Cosby brought to television an intact, warm, eminently functional American family in "The Cosby Show." In a family format that mimicked his own -- four daughters and a son caught smack in the middle of all those sisters -- Mr. Cosby and his on-screen wife brought hope and humor to mothers, fathers and children everywhere.Families could be fun. Parenting could pay off. Even in the late 20th century, children could respect and obey their parents even while enjoying them.

THIS MONTH, Severna Park United Methodist Church welcomes the Rev. George W. Ennis as its new minister.He and his wife, Susan, arrived in Anne Arundel County from his most recent assignment at Grace United Methodist Church in Hagerstown to head, as he expresses it, "a great staff and a good congregation. Severna Park is really a good place to be."The 30-year veteran of the ministry especially looks forward to SPUMC's outreach programs. "This church has the refugee resettlement program, Volunteers in Mission, the Stephen Ministry [where Christian laymen are trained to minister to the needs of others]

LOS ANGELES -- The trail to the killer of Ennis Cosby is growing faint. The outrage over his death has been muted by time, in a city where more than two slayings occur every day.Exactly a month ago, the son of comedian Bill Cosby was shot to death off a freeway off-ramp in the Santa Monica Mountains, as he changed a flat tire on his Mercedes-Benz. Since then, detectives say, they have made little progress in finding the killer, despite some 500 phoned-in tips and hundreds of thousands of dollars offered as a reward.

ATLANTA -- Morehouse College converted two fourth-quarter turnovers into two touchdowns as former Washington Redskins quarterback and Super Bowl XXII MVP Doug Williams posted his first victory as a head coach, a 24-14 decision over visiting Morgan State in the inaugural Ennis Cosby Football Classic yesterday.Ennis Cosby, late son of actor/comedian Bill Cosby, was a 1992 graduate of Morehouse who was murdered in Los Angeles early this year. Cosby, a Morehouse trustee, participated in the pre-game coin toss.

Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters. Judging by the way some media have covered the murder of Ennis Cosby, we deserve it.Mind you, we in the media try to govern ourselves, but often we "aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer." That quote comes from that eminent author, sage, wit and philosopher Mark Twain, who was himself a journalist at one time.Within days of the shooting of Ennis Cosby, his father, entertainer Bill Cosby, had to go public and demand that the media stop hounding the family and let them grieve privately.

Abraham Riley Jr. had a simple philosophy about the types of music he played: If it sounds good, play it. If it doesn't sound good but people still want to hear it, play it anyway.So it was with Abe Riley, whose musical career spanned nearly 50 years as a performer and disk jockey throughout Maryland.Mr. Riley, 67, who died Feb. 5 of brain tumors at his West Baltimore home, formed many be-bop and jazz groups since the 1940s. He played the bass guitar, piano, drums and trumpet."Music was always his main interest.

A man wanted on four felony warrants surrendered to police after officers persuaded him to come out of a residence in Severn, officials said.Andre Maurice Ennis, 23, of the 1400 block of Jackson Road was being held without bail at the Anne Arundel County jail.Police said Ennis had two outstanding warrants for failure to appear on a robbery charge, one warrant for failure to appear on a distribution of narcotics charge and another for violating probation on a robbery conviction.Officer Stephen Torbeck of the Western District learned of Ennis' whereabouts Thursday when an informant told him Ennis was in a house in the 8300 block of Timberlake Court.

Talk about Smalltimore. Ethel Ennis, Baltimore's grande dame of jazz, was in Oslo in 1990 to perform the national anthem at a ceremony commemorating the first American killed in World War II. In the audience was Anne Brown, the American soprano who, literally, put the Bess in Porgy and Bess - George Gershwin became so enraptured with her singing, he expanded both her role and the title of a new opera he was writing, originally called, simply, Porgy....

On April 17, 2009, BEATRICE CELESTINE CHANGE; beloved wife of Ennis Change. On Friday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road from 4 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, Mrs. Change will lie in state at Fulton Baptist Church, 1630 W. North Avenue, where the family will receive friends from 10 to 10:30 A.M with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 655-0015.

Unique Curtis' testimony didn't help her five schoolmates, who were all found responsible yesterday for assaulting Sarah Kreager, who was punched, beaten and kicked in the face Dec. 4 and left lying in a gutter with one eye swollen shut and the socket broken in two places. Unique sat on the witness stand Monday in a courtroom at the Juvenile Justice Center. Her hair was elegantly coiffed, as if it had been recently done. She slid her bangs from over her eyes and held her hands in front of her mouth as she testified.

A Baltimore juvenile court judge found five Robert Poole Middle School students responsible yesterday in the December attack on a city bus passenger and her boyfriend, concluding a divisive case fraught with racial overtones. Judge David W. Young's decision followed nearly two months of court hearings on the Dec. 4 fight in Hampden, described by several 911 callers as a riot. The attack prompted stricter safety standards on city buses and left Sarah Kreager, 26, with two broken bones around her left eye. Nine black teens were initially accused of "rising up en masse" and attacking Kreager on the No. 27 bus after school had let out for the day. Defense attorneys argued that Kreager's left eye was already bruised when she boarded the bus and that when the students began snickering at her, Kreager's boyfriend, Troy Ennis, ordered her "to spit on them [racial slur]

Danny Williams is black. That's important to this story. Kim Thomas is black, too. Williams is a Maryland Transit Administration bus driver who was operating the No. 27 bus on Dec. 4, when Sarah Kreager and her boyfriend, Troy Ennis, were allegedly beaten by a group of students from Robert Poole Middle School. Six boys and three girls were eventually charged with assault; three boys had their cases delayed and one girl pleaded guilty. Thomas is the defense attorney for Nikita McDaniels, whom Kreager identified as the student who started the fight with her. McDaniels filed countercharges, alleging that Kreager spat on her after Ennis told her to "spit on one of those niggers."

Defense attorneys for five middle school students accused of beating a woman aboard a city bus in December asked a judge yesterday to dismiss the petitions, or charges, against their clients. Baltimore Circuit Judge David W. Young is expected to rule on the request when the trial resumes tomorrow. All five defense attorneys challenged witnesses' inability to identify who assaulted victims Sarah Kreager, her boyfriend, Troy Ennis, and the driver of the No. 27 bus in Hampden, Danny Williams.

Joyce King may well have saved Sarah Kreager's life. On Dec. 4, Kreager and her boyfriend, Troy Ennis, boarded the No. 27 Maryland Transit Administration bus heading toward downtown Baltimore. What happened after they boarded is in dispute. Kreager claims that when she sat down, some girls from Robert Poole Middle School told her to either move or be moved. Kreager said the girls, along with some boys from the school, attacked her and Ennis, leaving Kreager bleeding from head wounds, her left eye swollen shut and the socket broken in two places.

The boyfriend of a woman beaten aboard a city bus denied yesterday that he ordered her to either spit on or use a racial slur against the teens accused of attacking her. Under aggressive cross-examination in juvenile court in Baltimore, Troy Ennis, 30, said he did nothing to provoke the Dec. 4 attack aboard the No. 27 bus in Hampden, other than to remark that the teens showed poorer manners than his 5-year-old daughter. His testimony matched that of his girlfriend, Sarah Kreager, 26, on all but very minor points.

The emergency room doctor who treated a woman severely beaten on a city bus in December testified in juvenile court yesterday that it was highly unlikely - but not impossible - that her injuries existed before the attack. Nine Robert Poole Middle School students have been accused of attacking Sarah Kreager, 26, and Troy Ennis, 30, aboard the No. 27 bus in Hampden on Dec. 4. Cases against five of those students began this week and are scheduled to resume tomorrow. Some defense attorneys argued that Kreager's injuries resulted from an earlier fight with Ennis, and not what witnesses described to 911 dispatchers as "a riot" involving men who "jumped off the bus and started beating" Kreager.

A woman who was severely beaten last year on a city bus told a juvenile court judge yesterday that she could identify only one of the teens accused of attacking her over an empty seat. Nine students at Robert Poole Middle School have been accused of beating Sarah Kreager, 26, and her boyfriend, Troy Ennis, aboard a bus in Hampden in December. One student has admitted her role in the attack, and cases against five began yesterday after more than a month of motions. Cases against the other three alleged assailants have been delayed and could be dismissed, according to court records.