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One person was killed during a fire that started about 9:20 p.m. in the northwest Baltimore neighborhood of Arlington, a fire official said. The fire started in a garage behind a vacant, two-story brick home in the 5200 block of Elmer Ave., said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a spokesman for the Baltimore City Fire Department. The body was found burned in the garage, and the sex of the victim could not be immediately identified, he said. Firefighters quickly extinguished the flames, which had briefly extended to the vacant house.

The Frederick County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the man shot last week during an apparent robbery in a downtown parking garage owned by the University of Maryland, Baltimore had been stabbed in March during a home invasion there. The victim was identified through that home invasion as Amir Abbas Doulatshahi, 45, of Middletown. Capt. Tim Clarke, the special operations commander for the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said investigators have turned over their files from that case to Baltimore police, but would not comment on whether they believe the cases are related.

After a hospital patient was shot and seriously wounded in an apparent robbery Thursday evening, University of Maryland officials sought to assure students and staff that its campus is safe and pledged to step up patrols. Police confirmed Friday that the 45-year-old victim was a Frederick County man who, according to sources, was a patient at the University of Maryland Medical Center where he was receiving treatment after being stabbed in a home invasion in March. Officials declined to give a motive, but according to a copy of an incident report, the victim told a woman who found him suffering from gunshot wounds on the sixth level of an underground parking garage that he had been robbed and shot in the back.

A man was shot several times in the back just before 6 p.m. on a lower level of an underground parking garage in the heart of the University of Maryland, Baltimore and UM Medical Center campus, police said. The victim, who appeared to be in his mid-40s, is in critical but stable condition at a local hospital, said Detective Kevin Brown, a police spokesman. After the shooting, the assailant fled, he said. No description of the shooter was available last evening. Officers were still conducting an investigation of the scene an hour after the shooting, Brown said, and surveillance footage will be reviewed.

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Howard "Moe" Bartholow, the retired president of the Diamond Cab Co., who worked in the transportation industry for nearly 60 years, died of cancer Aug. 25 at his Timonium home. He was 79. Born in Baltimore and raised on Savage Street near the Bayview section, he attended the John Ruhrah School and was a 1950 graduate of Patterson Park High School. His stepfather, Al Weinstein, was an official of the Diamond Cab Co., and they worked together for many years. Mr. Bartholow began working at the cab business in the 1940s, when it was located on Greenmount Avenue on the site of the Waverly Towers Shopping Center.

The following is compiled from police reports from the Cockeysville Precinct. North County News policy is to include descriptions only when there is enough information to make identification possible. Parkton York Road , 21000 block, between noon Aug. 2 and 8:30 a.m. Aug. 4. Television and cash stolen from house being renovated. Entry by cutting plastic covering doorway. Old York Road , 21100 block, between 2 p.m. Aug. 6 and 2 p.m. Aug. 7. Two guns, two grinders, two chainsaws, two drills, two concrete saws and gas auger stolen from Vachino Masonry.

Despite protests from some community groups, the Baltimore County Council is scheduled to vote Monday on an ordinance that would offer guidelines for add-on apartments which frequently serve as temporary, separate living quarters for relatives. The issue arose, in part, over a Cockeysville couple's decision to convert their garage into an apartment for their adult son. A growing number of residents are using such spaces, known as "in-law apartments," to care for elderly or disabled relatives.