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Baltimore County police confirmed Friday that a 14-year-old girl declared missing earlier in the week had been found in Rosedale on Wednesday afternoon, the day after she disappeared. She was unharmed. Solothia A. Thomas, a student at Overlea High School, was found by police at a fast-food restaurant in Rosedale about 24 hours after she failed to return home from school. Neither of two police spokesmen contacted by The Baltimore Sun could say why the department, having released a news bulletin on Wednesday asking for the public's help in finding Solothia, did not then put out another statement about her being found safe less than 90 minutes later.

A fast-food restaurant in Northeast Baltimore was robbed Saturday night by two men who forced customers to lie on the floor while they took an undetermined amount of cash from registers, police said. The men entered the KFC restaurant in the 6200 block of Belair Road shortly before 7:10 p.m. One of them brandished a handgun and ordered customers to the floor as his companion acted as lookout, police said. The gunman then jumped over the counter and took money from the cash registers before both men fled through the restaurant's rear parking lot and went south on Marluth Avenue, police said.

A man armed with a handgun robbed an Annapolis fast-food restaurant of an undisclosed amount of cash Monday night, county police said.The man walked into the Wings to Go shop in the 900 block of Bay Ridge Road about 10:30 p.m. with white pantyhose over his face and pulled out a silver handgun that may have been a .22-caliber or a .25-caliber, police said.The gunman demanded money from the cashier, who complied. The suspect ran from the store.

What if Downton Abbey was set in a fast-food restaurant, but kind of like with the same characters. And what if that guy from "Mad About You" and "Spin City" was in it? But there's no Dowager Countess character -- I don't think - that wanders pointlessly into a scene, makes a lemon-sucking face and says something like, "Toasted buns, indeed. " Seen on Eater

A man who implied he had a gun robbed a Brooklyn Park fast-food restaurant Friday of an undisclosed amount of money.Police said the mustachioed man with a tan and orange bandanna walked into the Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 5700 block of Ritchie Highway just after 9: 30 p.m. with his hand inside his dark-blue windbreaker, demanded money and threatened to shoot a clerk.The clerk handed over money and the man fled, police said.Pub Date: 4/15/97

A 22-year-old Hanover man told Annapolis police Sunday that he was struck in the leg by an object outside a city fast-food restaurant last week.Lizerra Melon Wideman of the first block of Briars Knoll Way said he was walking out of the McDonald's at 1941 West St. about 8 p.m. Aug. 3 when he heard a popping sound and felt a stinging sensation in his leg. He pulled up his pants and saw blood.Mr. Wideman didn't report the incident until Sunday, when the wound became infected, police said. He was treated at North Arundel Hospital and released.

What if Downton Abbey was set in a fast-food restaurant, but kind of like with the same characters. And what if that guy from "Mad About You" and "Spin City" was in it? But there's no Dowager Countess character -- I don't think - that wanders pointlessly into a scene, makes a lemon-sucking face and says something like, "Toasted buns, indeed. " Seen on Eater

A gas station proposed for Waverly Woods is the lesser of two evils in a contest with a possible fast-food restaurant, some residents and business operators believe. Others welcome the service station proposed for Waverly Woods Village Center shopping center by Convenience Retailing LLC as a way to draw new customers and to eliminate a roughly five-mile drive to get gas. "It is definitely better than a fast-food restaurant," said H.J. Pflueger, who lives in Waverly Woods, about six blocks from the service station proposed for the intersection of Warwick Way and Birmingham Way. "Then people come, they eat and they throw it around.

On my way to Rod Laver Arena, I see something on the street that catches my eye. It's a restaurant, called, no joke, "Lord of the Fries." Why in the world would an Australian fast food restaurant chain try to link itself to William Golding's famous novel about shipwrecked boys and the destructiveness of human nature? Are patrons only allowed to order "fries" if they're holding the conch? Are these "fries" cooked by a giant replica of Piggy's glasses? If you order "Pig's Head On a Stick" as a side to your fries, are you forced to come to terms with your loss of innocence?

Two decades ago, the last Gino's, in Pasadena, closed - leaving the hungry faithful in search of another burger to replace their beloved Gino's Giant. That is, until former Baltimore Colt Gino Marchetti helped bring back the franchise, starting with a location in King of Prussia last year. In August, Gino's Burgers & Chicken debuted in Towson, and longtime fans lined up for a taste of nostalgia. Gino's, it turns out, is still better than most fast food on the market.

Baltimore County police confirmed Friday that a 14-year-old girl declared missing earlier in the week had been found in Rosedale on Wednesday afternoon, the day after she disappeared. She was unharmed. Solothia A. Thomas, a student at Overlea High School, was found by police at a fast-food restaurant in Rosedale about 24 hours after she failed to return home from school. Neither of two police spokesmen contacted by The Baltimore Sun could say why the department, having released a news bulletin on Wednesday asking for the public's help in finding Solothia, did not then put out another statement about her being found safe less than 90 minutes later.

A 40-year-old man was sentenced yesterday to 23 years in prison for robbing and stabbing an 82-year-old woman outside a Baltimore KFC restaurant. The judge said he would have sent the suspect away for an even longer term if the law allowed it. The suspect, Rozza Alston, addressed the court with his hands cuffed behind him, wearing a red and blue plaid short-sleeve button-down shirt and long shorts. Speaking in a hushed, barely audible voice, he maintained his innocence and said he was not the type of person who could commit such a crime.

A gas station proposed for Waverly Woods is the lesser of two evils in a contest with a possible fast-food restaurant, some residents and business operators believe. Others welcome the service station proposed for Waverly Woods Village Center shopping center by Convenience Retailing LLC as a way to draw new customers and to eliminate a roughly five-mile drive to get gas. "It is definitely better than a fast-food restaurant," said H.J. Pflueger, who lives in Waverly Woods, about six blocks from the service station proposed for the intersection of Warwick Way and Birmingham Way. "Then people come, they eat and they throw it around.

On my way to Rod Laver Arena, I see something on the street that catches my eye. It's a restaurant, called, no joke, "Lord of the Fries." Why in the world would an Australian fast food restaurant chain try to link itself to William Golding's famous novel about shipwrecked boys and the destructiveness of human nature? Are patrons only allowed to order "fries" if they're holding the conch? Are these "fries" cooked by a giant replica of Piggy's glasses? If you order "Pig's Head On a Stick" as a side to your fries, are you forced to come to terms with your loss of innocence?

George Ritzer can still remember the first time. It was 1959. He was driving from his native New York, where he was a student at the City College of New York, to visit a friend at Amherst College. Looming next to the road somewhere in Massachusetts was a pair of golden arches, the first McDonald's restaurant he had seen. Little did Ritzer, now a University of Maryland professor, know that he was gazing on the symbol that would help establish his imprint on the field of sociology. The English version of his 1993 book The McDonaldization of Society, is a popular textbook that has sold more than 175,000 copies.

The crab cake company that found stardom on the QVC cable television shopping channel now hopes to find similar success in the restaurant business. Chesapeake Bay Gourmet, the 25-year-old Rosedale company that became a household name after debuting on QVC a decade ago, opened its first restaurant, Chesapeake Bay Crab Cakes & More, last week in Hunt Valley. In opening the restaurant, the first in what it hopes to become a chain, the company is entering a highly competitive market that includes large franchises such as Phillips Seafood Restaurants and dozens of mom-and-pop operations such as Obrycki's in Fells Point.

An unidentified man was shot to death yesterday afternoon by one of two men who followed him into a McDonald's restaurant in the Brooklyn area, city police said. Several employees ran for cover as the shooting took place about 4 p.m. in the restaurant at Potee Street and Patapsco Avenue, police said. No employees were hurt. Employees told Detectives Mike Glenn and Kenneth Welsh that the victim - an adult black man wearing jeans and a T-shirt -walked in, and had not yet approached the counter to make an order when the others entered seconds later, said Officer Sherrie Albrecht, a police spokeswoman.