Fayette Street

Here's what to look for while traveling in the Baltimore metropolitan area this week. Only newly announced work is listed, not continuing construction, which is extensive on several highways, including Interstate 95, U.S. 50/301 and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.New highway projectsRoute 32, Gambrills Road: Gambrills Road at Route 32 will be closed June 17 for construction of the bridge over Route 32. Detours will be posted. After completion of the bridge in 12 months, there will be no access off Route 32 to Gambrills Road.

Three men were seriously injured yesterday when a gunman, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, shot from a third-floor window into a van parked on a West Baltimore street. Police said an unlicensed taxi driver and two young male passengers were in a van parked in front of a three-story brick rowhouse in the 1100 block of Harlem Ave. about 10: 45 a.m. when someone pointed the weapon out of a window and fired about a dozen bullets at the vehicle. As the bullets rained down on the van, the driver got out and staggered about 50 feet into a nearby alley where he collapsed, police said.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton might be shocked to see the stout brick mansion on East Lombard Street where he lived and died in the early 1800s. Paint peels from shutters. Leaves, trash and weeds seem to jockey for space under its classical columns. Grime coats the upper windows. Now, new life is being breathed into the empty 194-year-old house that belonged to the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. The city Board of Estimates agreed yesterday to turn over operation of it and several nearby buildings - including the Shot Tower on East Fayette Street - to a group led by Baltimore County innkeeper Anne Pomykala.

There he was yesterday, almighty Bruce Willis himself, standing atop a car at Calvert and Fayette streets, stripping off his brown leather jacket seconds after a dump truck rammed into a bus with helicopters whirling overhead. But all around the theatrical explosions and screeching of the Live Free or Die Hard filming outside the city's courthouses yesterday was real screeching, honking and even some screaming as gridlock seized Baltimore's streets. Police cars and ambulances struggled to get by (There was even a Mercy Medical Center detour)

FOR ABOUT THE last 40 years, whenever George McGinn visited a Baltimore-area restaurant, he would walk out with a menu. Sometimes he got permission, but other times he or a companion slipped the menu under a jacket and hustled out the door. One reason behind his menu-nabbing habit was professional curiosity. McGinn was in the restaurant business and he wanted to see what his competitors were doing. He ran McGinn's restaurant at 328 N. Charles St. from 1974 to 1995. It is now Mick O'Shea's.

A 41-year-old Baltimore man died at Johns Hopkins Hospital last night after he was shot numerous times about 10: 15 p.m. in the 2500 block of E. Fayette St., city police said.Milton James Wright of the 400 block of Glover St. was arguing with another man when the man drew a gun and shot him, police said. They said the shooter fled and was being sought.Pub Date: 9/02/98

Baltimore Police say an 8-year-old boy who was reported missing Saturday has been found. The city police said via its Twitter account Sunday that Darrell Anthony Brown was found. tricia.bishop@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

The Greyhound bus company closed its downtown Baltimore station -- a hub of interstate travel for city residents -- and opened a temporary one two miles away last week with little notice to the public. In March, the company announced plans for the move but no date, and for many word that the terminal in the 200 block of W. Fayette St. had closed Wednesday night came as a surprise -- from posters on the locked entrance. "I have to pick up my nephew," said Erroet Figueroa, 39, of Aberdeen, one of countless relatives or travelers who were showing up at the old terminal last night expecting to catch a bus or pick up family members.

John H. Wilbanks, a Baltimore car impresario who popularized the slogan "The Walking Man's Friend," died Tuesday from complications of an infection at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 75 and lived in Parkville.For nearly 50 years, from a crowded office at Johnny's Auto Sales in the 4800 block of Harford Road, Mr. Wilbanks sold new and used cars. He estimated he had sold more than 100,000 cars."He had the gift of gab," said his wife of 55 years, the former Katherine Harvey, who met her future husband at a Baltimore filling station.

Anticipating a rush of last-minute tax filers, the Baltimore City Department of Transportation announced street closings and parking restrictions in effect tomorrow night near the main post office at 900 E. Fayette St. North High Street will be closed between Baltimore and Fayette streets tomorrow from 5 p.m. until midnight. Traffic will be directed east on Fayette Street to Exeter Street, where it can exit onto Interstate 83 via Baltimore and President streets. In addition, parking will be prohibited along both sides of Fayette Street from Colvin to Front streets so that the right lanes may be used as dedicated lanes for dropping off tax returns.