Gambrills

A pedestrian was transported to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center with serious injuries Monday morning after he was struck by a vehicle in Gambrills, an Anne Arundel County fire spokesman said. The 20-year-old man was struck on Bell Branch Road near St. Heather Lane, said Lt. Stuart Peters of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. He was flown to Shock Trauma with possibly life-threatening injuries, Peters said. Anne Arundel County Police will investigate the cause of the collision.

A single car crash in Gambrills Monday has claimed the life of an elderly female passenger and critically injured the driver. The car was traveling down the driveway to an underground parking garage at about 4:50 p.m., when it struck a wall of the building in the 2600 block of Chapel Lake Drive, police said. Both victims, who, police said, are related, were taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where the woman died. The elderly driver remains in critical condition.

An email was forwarded to me announcing Wednesday night's reopening of Kaufman's Tavern in Gambrills. I gave Kaufmann's a call, and manager Daniel Carr confirmed that the sprawling restaurant would be open on Wednesday, Aug. 31, the first night since Hurricane Irene came through town and knocked Kaufmann's for a loop. Irene did a number on Kaufmann's, smashing a tree down on a car its lot and generally playing havoc with the expansive deck area that had been remodeled only this past spring.

A Gambrills man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the distribution of child pornography, police said. Robert J. Hudson 2nd, 24, of the 1000 block of Christmas Lane has been charged with two counts of distributing pornographic images of children, according to a statement by Maryland State Police. On Tuesday, an undercover state trooper was surveilling an online file-sharing network "known for distributing child pornography," the statement said. The trooper engaged in an online chat with another person and they agreed to meet to exchange computer files containing child pornography, police said.

A single car crash in Gambrills Monday has claimed the life of an elderly female passenger and critically injured the driver. The car was traveling down the driveway to an underground parking garage at about 4:50 p.m., when it struck a wall of the building in the 2600 block of Chapel Lake Drive, police said. Both victims, who, police said, are related, were taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where the woman died. The elderly driver remains in critical condition.

A head-on two-vehicle crash Tuesday in Gambrills sent three people to area hospitals, Anne Arundel County Fire Department officials said. The crash occurred about 2:30 p.m. when an Isuzu Rodeo and a Honda collided on Generals Highway near Honeysuckle Lane, Battalion Chief Steve Thompson said. The driver of the Rodeo, a 57-year-old man, and the driver of the Spectra, a 55-year-old woman, were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, Thompson said. A passenger in the Rodeo, a 50-year-old woman, was taken to Anne Arundel Medical Center, he said.

Regal Cinemas will open a theater at Waugh Chapel Towne Centre, a planned mixed-use development in Gambrills in West Anne Arundel County, project developer Greenberg Gibbons said Monday. The theater will offer digital projection and will be the first IMAX cinema in the area. The 52,000-square-foot theater will join anchors Wegmans, Target, Dick's Sporting Goods and Petco in a 1.2 million-square-foot center with 650,000 square feet of shops, 125,000 square feet of offices and 380 apartments.

A Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. transformer caught fire Tuesday in Gambrills, rising to two alarms and sending a dark plume of smoke over the surrounding area, according to Anne Arundel County fire officials. Firefighters were called to the 1100 block of Waugh Chapel Road at about 10 a.m. after a transformer that was being taken apart became engulfed in flames. BGE workers temporarily cut off power in the area after the fire grew to two alarms. No one was injured, fire officials said.

A 33-year-old Gambrills man was arrested on drug charges yesterday after police said they found more than 10 pounds of marijuana in sealed containers during a raid on his house.Police began investigating activity at the house in the 100 block of Gambrills Road in May after they received a tip that a man was selling marijuana from the house. During the investigation, undercover officers bought marijuana at the home, police said.When police raided the house about 1 a.m., they found five 2-pound, unmarked, sealed coffee cans containing marijuana in the bedroom and the attic and several pipes throughout the house, police said.

Three masked men robbed a Gambrills pizza restaurant Sunday night.According to the county police report, three men walked into the Pizza Hut restaurant in the 1000 block of Route 3 at 11:07 p.m. and ordered employees to the floor.One of the robbers took out a chrome semiautomatic handgun while the others emptied the cash registers. Police searched the area with dogs but could not find the robbers.

An email was forwarded to me announcing Wednesday night's reopening of Kaufman's Tavern in Gambrills. I gave Kaufmann's a call, and manager Daniel Carr confirmed that the sprawling restaurant would be open on Wednesday, Aug. 31, the first night since Hurricane Irene came through town and knocked Kaufmann's for a loop. Irene did a number on Kaufmann's, smashing a tree down on a car its lot and generally playing havoc with the expansive deck area that had been remodeled only this past spring.

The Baltimore Sun has seriously erred in canceling Candus Thomson 's "Outdoors Girl" column ("Headed off down a different trail after many memorable adventures," Aug. 14). I grew up on the Severn River in the '60s. Rising before dawn to fish for perch with my father and siblings is a cherished memory. We stalked the crabgrass for soft crabs and netted doublers off the Naval Academy wall. We vacationed at Herrington Manor in a state cabin and went to Gambrills for picnics. During cold winters, we'd skate to Annapolis.

As of 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, traffic was slow on the inner loop of the Baltimore Beltway at I-795, due to a disabled vehicle in the roadway. In Anne Arundel County, Defense Highway was closed at Baldwin Avenue because of an accident. There were no major delays on Baltimore area mass transit systems.

Regal Cinemas will open a theater at Waugh Chapel Towne Centre, a planned mixed-use development in Gambrills in West Anne Arundel County, project developer Greenberg Gibbons said Monday. The theater will offer digital projection and will be the first IMAX cinema in the area. The 52,000-square-foot theater will join anchors Wegmans, Target, Dick's Sporting Goods and Petco in a 1.2 million-square-foot center with 650,000 square feet of shops, 125,000 square feet of offices and 380 apartments.

In choosing his Eagle Scout project, Tyler "TJ" Ellwein wanted one that would honor God and country, two ideas at the heart of Boy Scouts. While researching ideas, the 19-year-old Gambrills resident found that fellow Scouts had cleaned headstones for their project and it seemed like a natural choice. After all, both his parents are members of the Army and assigned to Fort Myer, where Arlington National Cemetery is located. Add that Ellwein served as the chaplain's aide for his troop, that his mother is a chaplain's assistant and that it was the 100th anniversary of the chaplain assistant, and his idea began to take shape.

Anne Arundel County police on Monday identified a man whose body was found over the weekend in a frozen pond in Edgewater as a 28-year-old Gambrills resident. Police said the body of Justin Paul Raddie of the 900 block of Echo Bay Court was taken to the state medical examiner's office in Baltimore for an autopsy after a Fire Department dive team found him Sunday in a storm-water retention pond near Riverton Place and Stepneys Lane. Officers went to the area about 11:30 a.m. that day after a woman who had been walking her dog reported seeing a pair of shoes at the scene and holes in the ice. Police found one shoe on the ground, another on the ice and called in the dive team.

Jewelry and 300 compact discs were stolen Tuesday from a house in Gambrills by someone who pried open a sliding glass door, county police said.The break-in occurred between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. at a house in the 2300 block of Mount Tabor Road. Police said the owner found the door leading to the basement open when she got home from work.The owner could not say how much the stolen items were worth.

Police charged a Gambrills man with battery Saturday after he and a fellow employee got into a fight at the horse farm where they work.Jacqueline Castrenze, who runs the farm in the 1300 block of Winner's Circle in Gambrills told police she asked one of her employees to feed her horses shortly after 4:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.The man had been drinking and refused, police said. Ms. Castrenze then asked another employee to feed the horses, and he complied, but the first man got angry and began to yell and curse at Ms. Castrenze, police said.

A Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. transformer caught fire Tuesday in Gambrills, rising to two alarms and sending a dark plume of smoke over the surrounding area, according to Anne Arundel County fire officials. Firefighters were called to the 1100 block of Waugh Chapel Road at about 10 a.m. after a transformer that was being taken apart became engulfed in flames. BGE workers temporarily cut off power in the area after the fire grew to two alarms. No one was injured, fire officials said.

A pedestrian was transported to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center with serious injuries Monday morning after he was struck by a vehicle in Gambrills, an Anne Arundel County fire spokesman said. The 20-year-old man was struck on Bell Branch Road near St. Heather Lane, said Lt. Stuart Peters of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. He was flown to Shock Trauma with possibly life-threatening injuries, Peters said. Anne Arundel County Police will investigate the cause of the collision.