Falls Road

Two men were arrested last night after leading city police and the crew of a police helicopter on a vehicle pursuit on and off the Jones Falls Expressway that ended when one man was arrested while hiding under the porch of a house near St. Mary's Seminary, police said. The other man was arrested when he bailed out of the car on the expressway. At one point, the suspect's 1997 Lexus was southbound in the northbound lanes of the expressway near 41st Street, but its driver turned around as he neared a police roadblock set up to prevent the car from colliding with northbound traffic.

The Filling Station Address: --13501 Falls Road, Cockeysville Phone: --410-785-5955 Hours: --6 a.m-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday The Stone Mill Bakery Cafe Address: --Green Spring Station, 10751 Falls Road, Lutherville Phone: --410-821-1358 Hours: --7 a.m-6 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday A real hot chocolate, made with Valrhona dark chocolate and cream. It's so rich it feels like you are swallowing a piece of European chocolate.

An 11-year-old boy was in serious condition last night, a victim of apparent crossfire in West Baltimore, police said. The boy was shot in the right shoulder about 5 p.m. yesterday in the 1500 block of McKean Ave. in Sandtown-Winchester, police said. He was taken to the pediatrics unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where police said he remained in serious but stable condition. Police are searching for two unidentified suspects but know of no motive. Carroll County : Westminster Thieves strike at historic farm The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is investigating at least two incidents of theft from a historic property in the 1800 block of Bachman Valley Road, Westminster.

Wilton Andrews Elburn Sr., a former manager of a Falls Road service station and a volunteer, died Sunday of complications from pneumonia at Northwest Hospital Center. The longtime Reisterstown resident was 63. Mr. Elburn was born in Baltimore and grew up in the Medfield neighborhood. After graduating from Polytechnic Institute in 1961, he served in the Coast Guard for several years. In the 1960s, he went to work for Elburn's Garage in the 4400 block of Falls Road, which had been established by his father and grandfather in 1932.

On November 3, 2007, JAMES DEWEY THOMPSON of Ocala, FL; beloved husband of Kathleen H. Thompson (nee Henthorn); son of the late William C. and Mary Marie Baublitz Thompson; devoted father of sons, James David and Theodore Edward Thompson; daughter, Joy Michelle Eagan; brother of Mary Jane Seipp. Also survived by two grandchildren. Services, Salem United Methodist Church, 18221 Falls Road , Hampstead, MD 21074, Thursday, 10 A.M. Interment in Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Finksburg, MD. Friends may call Tuesday, from 7 to 9 P.M. and Wednesday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. at Eline Funeral Home, 934 S. Main Street, Hampstead, MD 21074.

WHEN PEOPLE ASK me how I got interested in Baltimore, I respond with two words: "Sunday drives." It's a tradition I continue today. Baltimore and its environs are ever-changing.The city was never a mystery to me. My parents conducted weekly geography lessons from the front seats of a succession of Dodges and Ramblers. Each talked and chatted as we roamed the streets of Baltimore, a city that in the 1950s was still stained with years of coal soot. Formstone enjoyed a status not unlike a large, pressure-treated lumber deck does today.

The body of a woman was found in a wrecked car yesterday near Cockeysville, apparently the victim of an accident at least two days ago that no one saw or heard.Police identified her as Joyce Richards, 47, of the first block of Sycamore Lane in Hanover, Pa.Police and firefighters were called to the accident scene, on Falls Road near Shawan Road, shortly before 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon by a telephone company worker."A Bell Atlantic worker on a cherry picker looked down and saw the car," said Lt. Minda F. Foxwell of the Baltimore County Police Department.

Drug treatment does work, needs to be more availableThe Sun's two-part editorial (June 27-28) on efforts to fight drug addiction in Baltimore deserves praise for calling attention to a major public health problem.Unfortunately, it missed the point. Drug abuse treatment (whether coerced or voluntary) has been shown repeatedly over the past 30 years to be quite effective in reducing drug use, crime and HIV transmission.Finding fault with Baltimore for not "proving" that treatment is effective is unfair.

The city zoning board answered a chorus of voices against new billboards in North Baltimore yesterday by rejecting applications for proposed billboards at two Crown Central Petroleum Corp. gas stations.The board made the decision after political and community leaders argued that billboards proposed for 4501 Falls Road and 5101 York Road would adversely affect their lives.The advertising company seeking to lease the billboard space is Eller Media Co."People sitting on their balconies could see the back of the sign," said Roz Goldner, a resident of the Deer Ridge condominium complex who opposed the proposed billboard at Falls Road and Cold Spring Lane.

On one side of the road stand office buildings, upscale retail shops, a popular indoor racquet club and medical offices -- all within easy access of Interstate 83, downtown Baltimore and the Beltway.On the other side is a rolling expanse of field and woodland that forms the threshold to Baltimore County's Green Spring Valley, with wealthy estates and working farms and a community determined to preserve its rural landscape."You've got a recipe for major fighting," said Baltimore County Planning Director Arnold F. "Pat" Keller.

In the summer of 1970, my father and I took a Sunday drive along Falls Road and encountered a fledging enterprise known as the Baltimore Streetcar Museum. A group of streetcar enthusiasts had made good on their determination to preserve and run some of Baltimore's revered transit vehicles of the previous 100 years. That day, we watched in amazement as aged streetcars appeared. And each year, these volunteers at the museum extended the overhead wires and the rails a little more along Falls Road into the Jones Falls Valley.

A water main break reopened Wednesday at Falls Road and Northern Parkway in Baltimore, and repair work is likely to affect traffic in the area through the end of the week, according to public works officials. The break was initially found Tuesday on southbound Falls Road about 200 feet north of its intersection with Northern Parkway, according to city Department of Public Works spokesman Kurt Kocher. A clamp on the leak failed Wednesday morning, Kocher said. A portion of Falls Road south of Northern Parkway was being used as a staging area for construction equipment, causing southbound Falls Road traffic to be detoured onto westbound Northern Parkway, Kocher said.

On July 5, 2009, DONALD LEROY DAY, loving uncle of 16 nieces and nephews. A graveside service will be held at Saters Baptist Church Cemetery on the corner of Falls Road and Saters Road, Lutherville, MD on Thursday at 11 A.M. Interment immediately following. Funeral arrangements by the CONNELLY FUNERAL HOME OF ESSEX.

Paul Mifflin Johnson, a retired Baltimore public school educator and administrator who helped record the history of the original Cross Keys settlement, died of heart failure June 2 at Sinai Hospital. The longtime Ashburton resident was 79. Mr. Johnson, the son of a chef and homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Cross Keys, which once sprawled along the western edge of Falls Road between Cold Spring Lane and Hillside Road. While a student at Frederick Douglass High School, Mr. Johnson appeared in operettas and developed a lifelong love of the theater and classical music.

McDaniel head Joan Develin Coley to retire Joan Develin Coley, the president of McDaniel College, announced Wednesday that she will retire after a decade of leading the Westminster college. Coley, 64, has spent almost her entire career at McDaniel. She joined the faculty in 1973 and was provost when she became the college's first female president in 2000. Her retirement will be effective June 30, 2010. Under her watch, the school changed its name from Western Maryland College to McDaniel College.

Boy, 11, missing; failed to return from school An 11-year-old boy was reported missing after he did not return home after leaving Golden Ring Middle School on Friday, Baltimore County police said. Mezcal Donta Davis of the 6000 block of Nahant Road in Rosedale is black with a medium complexion, brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair. He was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt and tan pants. He stands 4 feet 6 inches tall and weighs about 100 pounds. Anyone with information about the boy is asked to call police at 410-887-5000.

Events today prompt road closures in city 1 Baltimore transportation officials are warning of road closures and heavy traffic in two areas of the city today because of weekend events. From 9 a.m. until 9 p.m., the Street Beat Festival will be held in Federal Hill. From 3 a.m. until 10 p.m., Charles Street will be closed from Hamburg Street to West Street, Cross Street (north) will be closed from Light Street to Olive Street, and Cross Street (south) will be closed from Charles to Light.

police reports in baltimore city and county: Eastern Baltimore Stolen vehicle Police were seeking a 2004 Jeep Cherokee with tags 12477M8 that was stolen Sunday in the 1700 block of E. Monument St. Northern Baltimore Burglary Several DVDs, speakers and a laptop computer were stolen Monday from a house in the 4100 block of Falls Road in Hampden by someone who entered through a front window. The property was valued at $1,700. Southeastern Baltimore Stolen vehicle A blue 1997 Subaru Legacy with tags LVC 622 was stolen between Sunday and Monday in the 2800 block of Fleet St. Stolen vehicle Police were seeking a red Subaru station wagon with tags WLD 480 that was stolen over the weekend in the 100 block of S. Collington Ave. Theft An iPod and a DVD radio were stolen over the weekend from a 1997 Nissan Sentra parked in the 2300 block of Essex St. between Sunday and Monday.

Police seek cause of fatal I-83 accident It will probably take weeks to determine what caused the car crash that killed a 25-year-old man and his 2-month-old son on Interstate 83 early Tuesday, a Maryland State Police spokesman said yesterday. Ronnel S. Offer of Galesville was killed after the disabled car from which he was trying to remove his infant son was rear-ended. The boy, Tyler M. Offer of Harrisburg, Pa., died at Sinai Hospital not long after the 3 a.m. accident, which occurred on northbound I-83 between Shawan and Belfast roads in northern Baltimore County.

Baltimore officials closed a footbridge at Robert E. Lee Park yesterday, shutting a passageway to one of the city's most popular dog-walking areas. An independent contractor recently completed a structural assessment of the bridge and identified several areas of concern. Although the park is in Baltimore County, it is owned by the city. It sits north of Mount Washington, adjacent to Lake Roland near Falls Road and Lakeside Drive. Word of the bridge's closure spread throughout the park by late evening, as dozens of dog walkers were forced to brainstorm future plans.