Ford Escort

POLICE LOG Kings Contrivance: 7500 block of Weather Worn Way: A silver 1991 Ford Escort with Maryland tags ANL745 was stolen Friday, police said.

I just bought a little red car, and the other day, at a stoplight, I looked down at my hand on the stick shift, and suddenly I was seven years old, sitting in the back of our little red Ford Escort, and Dad was taking us fishing. My dad had a black mustache. He liked jeans and T-shirts, and he wore them until they fell apart. He kept a handkerchief in his pocket, for his nose, for our noses. He wore a heavy belt buckle he'd gotten from the Outdoor Writers Association of America.

County police recovered a stolen handgun and a stolen car but lost two suspects yesterday morning after a foot chase near the Greentree apartments, county police said.The 9mm semiautomatic pistol was reported stolen in Prince George's County. The car, a Ford Escort, had been reported stolen from Howard CountyPolice had gone to the 8000 block of Winding Wood Road about 3 a.m. Thursday to investigate a report of two men looking into cars on the parking lot. They spotted the men beside a Ford Escort and followed them on foot to Winding Wood Road and Green Branch Lane.

A gunman opened fire at a car traveling on North Pulaski Street in West Baltimore yesterday afternoon, killing one man and injuring another, police said. Police identified the dead man, Anthony Carlest, 35, of the 4200 block of Labyrinth Road in Northwest Baltimore, as the driver of the car. Melvin McAllister, 39, of the 2400 block of W. Baltimore St. in West Baltimore was shot in the back and was listed in good condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said. Detective Dave Peckoo said the shooting occurred about 2:25 p.m. while the men were driving a Ford Escort in the 300 block of N. Pulaski St. A gunman fired numerous shots through the back windshield of the car, striking both men, Peckoo said.

Size doesn't always matter. Except when it comes to rental cars. For safety's sake, I want to drive something as big as I can afford, or at least as big as what I drive at home -- a Ford Taurus.According to the U.S. government's EPA standards, my Taurus is a midsize car. So when I went hunting for a rental car recently, I set my sights on at least a midsize.But as I called around to do a little comparison shopping, I found that the EPA's midsize is not necessarily a rental-car company's midsize.

A gunman opened fire at a car traveling on North Pulaski Street in West Baltimore yesterday afternoon, killing one man and injuring another, police said. Police identified the dead man, Anthony Carlest, 35, of the 4200 block of Labyrinth Road in Northwest Baltimore, as the driver of the car. Melvin McAllister, 39, of the 2400 block of W. Baltimore St. in West Baltimore was shot in the back and was listed in good condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said. Detective Dave Peckoo said the shooting occurred about 2:25 p.m. while the men were driving a Ford Escort in the 300 block of N. Pulaski St. A gunman fired numerous shots through the back windshield of the car, striking both men, Peckoo said.

Man robs Maryland National Bank; some money recoveredPolice are searching for a man who robbed a Maryland National Bank branch in the Village of Wilde Lake yesterday.The man fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of money, part of which was later recovered.According to police, the robber entered the bank at 10451 Twin Rivers Road at 11:45 a.m. and handed a teller a note demanding money. The robber apparently was unarmed and did not indicate he was carrying a weapon, said Andrew Manning, spokesman for the Maryland-Delaware division of the FBI.After receiving an undisclosed amount of cash, he fled the bank on foot.

A Carroll County three-judge panel refused yesterday to reduce Sara Elizabeth Citroni's sentence of two life terms for the murder of a Westminster woman and her boyfriend in July 1993.Citroni, 20, of Reisterstown requested the sentence modification June, hoping the judges would reduce it enough for her to begin therapy and vocational programs at the Patuxent Institution.Her current sentence, imposed in September 1994 after Citroni pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy, prohibits her involvement in Patuxent's programs.

Maryland new-car dealers launched the year on a down slope as sales dipped 4.4 percent in January, according to figures released yesterday by the Motor Vehicle Administration.It was the fifth consecutive month in which sales were lower than in the corresponding period of the previous year. Sales have been off in eight of the past nine months."Business was a little soft last month," said Robert C. Russel, president of R&H Motor Cars Ltd. in Owings Mills and chairman of the Maryland New Car and Truck Dealers Association, a trade group representing 320 new car dealers in the state.

DETROIT -- Eager to expand its production capacity and exploit the favorable regulations under the North American Free Trade Agreement, Ford Motor Co. said yesterday that it would build its new compact cars in Mexico as well as the United States and greatly increase its exports to Mexico.Ford's plans will touch off a series of production shifts in Mexican, Canadian and U.S. factories, the company said, resulting in the creation of the equivalent of 550 jobs in the United States and Canada and 300 jobs in Mexico.

Size doesn't always matter. Except when it comes to rental cars. For safety's sake, I want to drive something as big as I can afford, or at least as big as what I drive at home -- a Ford Taurus.According to the U.S. government's EPA standards, my Taurus is a midsize car. So when I went hunting for a rental car recently, I set my sights on at least a midsize.But as I called around to do a little comparison shopping, I found that the EPA's midsize is not necessarily a rental-car company's midsize.

Maryland new-car dealers launched the year on a down slope as sales dipped 4.4 percent in January, according to figures released yesterday by the Motor Vehicle Administration.It was the fifth consecutive month in which sales were lower than in the corresponding period of the previous year. Sales have been off in eight of the past nine months."Business was a little soft last month," said Robert C. Russel, president of R&H Motor Cars Ltd. in Owings Mills and chairman of the Maryland New Car and Truck Dealers Association, a trade group representing 320 new car dealers in the state.

Police log Kings Contrivance: 7200 block of Eden Brook Drive: A red and silver, two-door Ford Escort with Virginia tags ZJS4749 was stolen Saturday morning. Pub Date: 9/15/96

A Carroll County three-judge panel refused yesterday to reduce Sara Elizabeth Citroni's sentence of two life terms for the murder of a Westminster woman and her boyfriend in July 1993.Citroni, 20, of Reisterstown requested the sentence modification June, hoping the judges would reduce it enough for her to begin therapy and vocational programs at the Patuxent Institution.Her current sentence, imposed in September 1994 after Citroni pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy, prohibits her involvement in Patuxent's programs.

County police recovered a stolen handgun and a stolen car but lost two suspects yesterday morning after a foot chase near the Greentree apartments, county police said.The 9mm semiautomatic pistol was reported stolen in Prince George's County. The car, a Ford Escort, had been reported stolen from Howard CountyPolice had gone to the 8000 block of Winding Wood Road about 3 a.m. Thursday to investigate a report of two men looking into cars on the parking lot. They spotted the men beside a Ford Escort and followed them on foot to Winding Wood Road and Green Branch Lane.

DETROIT -- Eager to expand its production capacity and exploit the favorable regulations under the North American Free Trade Agreement, Ford Motor Co. said yesterday that it would build its new compact cars in Mexico as well as the United States and greatly increase its exports to Mexico.Ford's plans will touch off a series of production shifts in Mexican, Canadian and U.S. factories, the company said, resulting in the creation of the equivalent of 550 jobs in the United States and Canada and 300 jobs in Mexico.

In Southwest Baltimore, people know Mary Bontempo for her community work with the elderly and for her fight against the noisy auto scrap yard in her Mill Hill neighborhood.And people all over the city know her for something else: codfish cakes.Ms. Bontempo is known as the "Coddie Lady," and for more than 10 years she has run a thriving business selling codfish cakes, a treat she has found oddly popular in a city known for crab cakes.When the vivacious and outspoken Ms. Bontempo is not helping senior citizens get medical care or finding summer work for neighborhood teen-agers, she's frying coddies to sell to corner bars, corner grocery stores, bingo halls and churches from Pigtown to Highlandtown.

In Southwest Baltimore, people know Mary Bontempo for her community work with the elderly and for her fight against the noisy auto scrap yard in her Mill Hill neighborhood.And people all over the city know her for something else: codfish cakes.Ms. Bontempo is known as the "Coddie Lady," and for more than 10 years she has run a thriving business selling codfish cakes, a treat she has found oddly popular in a city known for crab cakes.When the vivacious and outspoken Ms. Bontempo is not helping senior citizens get medical care or finding summer work for neighborhood teen-agers, she's frying coddies to sell to corner bars, corner grocery stores, bingo halls and churches from Pigtown to Highlandtown.