Feud

The suspect whom Annapolis police had been seeking for months in the killing of a man outside an American Legion hall last year has surrendered. Shawn Eric Woodlin, 30, turned himself in late Monday night. Police had been looking for Woodlin since Aug. 29, when he became a suspect in the fatal shooting of Annapolis resident Howard Eugene Stevens, 36, that night in the American Legion's parking lot off Forest Drive. "We really looked very hard for him," said Annapolis police spokesman Hal Dalton.

The Hells Angels didn't exactly get a warm welcome to Maryland. Last May in Calvert County, members of the state's inaugural chapter celebrated their first year of membership by attending the "Blessing of the Bikes" in North Beach. A few thousand other motorcyclists also went, for reasons of their own. But so did nearly a hundred policemen, who shadowed the Angels with sniper rifles and surveillance cameras. Two months later, federal agents raided the chapter's clubhouse, arresting president John Beal and another member on gun and drug charges.

Federal authorities are trying to seize $10 million from reputed drug kingpin Steven Blackwell Jr., who was indicted along with two others on federal heroin distribution charges last month. The brief court filing in U.S. District Court indicates for the first time the scope of Blackwell's alleged drug empire and links him to two real estate companies that own property in East Baltimore and a home along the Elk River in Cecil County that was purchased for $740,000. Authorities have labeled Blackwell, 26, a key player in a violent drug feud that began with the abduction of his two younger brothers and included a quadruple shooting outside an appliance store and a shootout at a backyard cookout that injured 12 people, including Blackwell.

Yes, you read that headline correctly. Kofi Kingston, a WWE Superstar who was hard-pressed to find a win on television in 2013, defeated a man in Antonio Cesaro who, weeks earlier, was taking on several challengers, showing impressive feats of strength. Then, Cesaro seemed to fall off the face of the earth around WrestleMania time. He didn't appear at WrestleMania. He didn't appear on Raw the next night. Then, he starts yodeling and loses the U.S. title. Is Antonio Cesaro in the dog house?

The General Assembly session ended two weeks ago with Howard County receiving an unexpectedly large chunk of the state money set aside for school construction. Howard's share of the money for capital school projects will be nearly $12 million, more than it has gotten since at least the mid-1980s.Ordinarily, that would be something for county lawmakers to crow about. But delegation members are too busy feuding over the fact that two-thirds of the money will go to projects in or near the district of East Columbia Del. Virginia Thomas.

It is no surprise that once more the County Council has wimped out by not letting voters make an important decision about their fire protection.On Monday, three council members, enough to kill the issue, again refused to put a charter amendment on the ballot spelling out what the charter already says: that volunteers are part of one county fire department, subject to the authority of the county fire chief.Politically, it was a smart move by Ed Middlebrooks, David Boschert and Virginia Clagett.

F. Ward DeGrange was one of those men who made the sprawling, chrome-plated suburb of Glen Burnie seem like an old-fashioned small town.Mr. DeGrange, who died of cancer last Friday, began working with his father's construction company in the early 1940s, and helped to build more than 100 homes in the community. In 1948, as the Glen Burnie building boom accelerated, he and his father founded DeGrange Lumber Co., a family business that now employs Mr. DeGrange's four sons.Mr. DeGrange not only helped to build Glen Burnie, he helped to sustain it. He was active in Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, the Glen Burnie Improvement Association and the Kiwanis Club.

Dear Harriette: My aunt and I are very close. A couple of months ago, I was having a bad day and, without intending to, I took my frustrations out on her in front of her children, using profanity, etc. I deeply regretted it immediately and apologized. She accepted my apology, we hugged, and that was that. A month later, I stopped by her house, but neither she nor her children would really interact with me. I haven't been back in two months and no one has called me or anything. I think that they are all holding a grudge, but I apologized and she accepted.

In Anne Arundel County's firehouses, bickering between paid and volunteer firefighters has escalated to new levels of pettiness. While the volunteers cry about being tyrannized "like certain minority groups in Nazi Germany," the head of the paid firefighting force shouts back that he's "bent over backwards" to please the volunteers -- when, clearly, he hasn't.They all look bad.Inane feuding between paid and volunteer firefighters is nothing new in Anne Arundel; they've been at each other's throats for 20 years over such momentous issues as whether fire trucks should be red or lime green.