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LINTHICUM - Authorities shut down the busy Southwest Airlines pier at Baltimore-Washington International Airport for two hours Saturday after a man entered the pier by going around the security checkpoint, a BWI spokeswoman said. The man was stopped by police about 12:15 p.m. while trying to enter Pier B. He told police he had gone through security once but had stepped back out to smoke, airport spokeswoman Lyn Farrow said yesterday. Farrow said he went about 80 feet into the pier before he was stopped by police.

A woman who worked at a Glen Burnie counseling center has sued her former boss for $6 million, claiming he sexually harassed her by sending her flowers and notes and implying she would go further in her career if she responded to his advances.Patricia A. Willis of the 100 block of Second Ave., Glen Burnie, charges in the suit filed Friday in Anne Arundel Circuit Court that Raymond B. Farrow continuously tried to induce her into a sexual relationship.She claimed that her "salary was decreased and that she was forced to resign her position because of her refusal to submit to the sexual advances."

In Baltimore County Howard County man, 24, dies in car crash on I-83 PARKTON -- A Howard County man died yesterday morning when his car crashed on Interstate 83 near Middletown Road in Baltimore County, Maryland State Police said. Thomas Matthew Winter, 24, of the 6300 block of Greenfield Road in Elkridge was driving a 1993 Plymouth Sundance sedan south on I-83 when the car drifted into the concrete center divider, then abruptly turned to the right, went off the road and hit an embankment, according to police.

City health inspectors closed the Giant Food store in the Rotunda shopping center in North Baltimore yesterday for pest infestations, said Olivia D. Farrow, the Health Department's assistant commissioner for environmental health. "The main reason for the closure was due to a mouse infestation throughout the whole store, and they also had a fly infestation in the bakery area," she said. Farrow said health inspectors went to the supermarket, located in the 700 block of W. 40th St., yesterday in response to two separate complaints filed through the city's 311 center.

If you crave shortening in your pie crust or french fries seeped in "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil," you'll have to dine outside Baltimore. As of Sunday, Baltimore restaurants, delis, bakeries and corner lunch carts can no longer prepare food that contains 0.5 grams or more of unhealthful trans fats per serving. The city joined a growing number of places, including Montgomery County, New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and California, to ban trans fats that health advocates say clog arteries and lead to heart disease.

1980 scrabble champ wins U.S. title againRattled when he couldn't play the word he wanted, Joe Edley stared intently at the jumble of letters.Then, bingo!The one-time math major saw "quantiles," a 70-point word that propelled him to a come-from-behind victory yesterday in the National Scrabble Championship.The word means the values of random variables."After that, I had to play catch-up, but I couldn't find anything," Joel Wapnick, a music teacher at McGill University in Montreal, said after losing three straight games yesterday, allowing Mr. Edley to carry off the $10,000 championship.

A state's attorney in Connecticut said yesterday that he had "probable cause" to prosecute Woody Allen on charges that he sexually molested his adopted daughter but had decided to spare her the trauma of a court appearance.The state's attorney in Litchfield, Frank Maco, said he had drawn up an arrest warrant for Mr. Allen but then decided not to pursue the case. He said the girl's mother, Mia Farrow, had agreed that dropping the charges was in her daughter's best interest."This was no time for a damn-the-torpedoes prosecutorial approach," Mr. Maco said at a news conference in Wallingford, Conn.

For movie stars Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, it appears that art and courtroom battles imitate real life.Their bitter child custody hearing, reminiscent of a soap opera plot with daily charges and countercharges, is just taking place on a much larger scale and stage than other cases of a similar nature, according to several attorneys who specialize in family law."It is fairly typical," said H. Joseph Gitlin, a Woodstock, Ill., lawyer and the author of "Gitlin on Divorce," a book on domestic relations law. "Child custody is total warfare.

End of fast Former basketball star Magic Johnson took his fight against AIDS to Japan yesterday, calling for stepped-up research, better education and more compassion for people living with the disease. In Tokyo for an international symposium, he said people infected with the AIDS virus need support from family, friends and society."Those people who have HIV, or AIDS, you've got to treat them the same way as before," he said. "The only thing they want is to be treated like a human being."Amy Fisher sex claim to go to grand juryAllegations that Joey Buttafuoco had sex with a 16-year-old and therefore underage Amy Fisher are to go before a Nassau County grand jury, officials said yesterday, with testimony from the imprisoned teen-ager to come as early as today.

On Saturday, August 20, 2005, JOHN ERNEST WINKEL, JR.; beloved and cherished husband of Kimberly (nee Fendlay) Winkel; loving and devoted father of PFC John Winkel and Justin Winkel. Also survived by his parents Lorraine and husband Robert Farrow, John, Sr. and wife Linda Winkel; sisters, Janette Wrzesien, Debra Goode; brothers, Matt, Joseph, Robert and James. Also survived by several aunts, uncles, grandparents, nieces, nephews and cousins. Friends may call at the LOUDON PARK FUNERAL HOME, 3620 Wilkens Avenue, on Tuesday, August 23, from 2 to 8 P.M. Funeral Services will be held 1 P.M., Wednesday, August 24, at the funeral home.