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The City Council introduced a series of O'Malley administration bills last night calling for approval of $24 million in additional spending to cover cost overruns this year, much of which are due to police overtime from the city's stepped-up crime-fighting efforts. The Police Department overspent its budget by $11.5 million for this fiscal year, which ends June 30, and the Department of Public Works overspent by $7.3 million. And $1 million more is going toward a summer jobs program, officials said.

COLLEGE PARK -- Ludwig Field has been a virtual house of horrors for most opposing teams, but No. 5 Indiana marched in last night and didn't flinch, scoring three second-half goals to salvage a 3-3 tie with No. 3 Maryland. Despite playing with a dislocated shoulder, Jason Garey scored two first-half goals, one on a spectacular bicycle kick, but the Terps could not hold the lead and gave up the tying goal with just five seconds left in front of 6,203 - the largest crowd to ever watch a men's soccer game in College Park.

Michela Caudill's photographs of people with AIDS and their care givers have a strange effect: They make you feel outside. That is to their credit.Caudill has spent the last two years photographing people with AIDS and the range of their care givers: doctors and nurses, but also friends, family and volunteers. The result is an exhibit of black and white photographs that tells the stories of a few individuals, accompanied by texts to reveal the courage of the sick and the devotion of the care givers.

THE NEW police commissioner of Baltimore, Kevin Clark, arrived at City Hall on Friday with a Noo Yawk accent and a street-corner mentality. He says the street corners will now belong to him and not to the drug dealers who currently control so many of them and chill entire neighborhoods. This is good to hear, but not exactly new. Clark will replace The Deserter, also known as Edward T. Norris, who slipped out of town and gave up fighting murderers and heroin dealers for the vitally important job of supervising traffic tickets on suburban highways.

Legislation fostering the sale of 50 acres of city-owned land to Loyola College at two closed landfills could be delayed until summer, pending a completed study by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, 1st District City Councilwoman Lois Garey said last week. "The community has requested an EPA study on developing and building on a [former] landfill, and a lot of council people would like to wait," Garey said just days after chairing a contentious land-use committee hearing on Loyola's proposal to buy the land in the Woodberry area, off Cold Spring Lane.

For my money, the cultural high point of 1995 arrives on a muggy May night in East Baltimore, when I share a chocolate cake with Lois Garey, the City Council member, and a fellow named Pete, no last name.The cake has been made by a neighborhood lady, and it melts in the mouth. But this Pete fellow manages to find fault with it. Too dry, he declares through delicate taste buds. Chocolate cake should be moister. Lois Garey shoots him a look."If it's too dry," she declares, "do what my husband does."

CARY, N.C. - Maryland goalkeeper Noah Palmer called everyone together, hoping to regroup his team after Virginia scored the first goal of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament title game yesterday. Palmer had held a similar team meeting after North Carolina scored on Saturday, sparking a Maryland comeback that included four-second half goals. But unlike Saturday, the Terps could not capitalize on scoring chances late against the Cavaliers, losing, 2-1, in front of 3,841 fans at SAS Soccer Stadium.

Just before the Monday evening Baltimore City Council meetings, Councilwoman Lois Garey would give a peace offering to her feuding fellow 1st District representatives -- a butterscotch Lifesaver to John L. Cain and a peppermint Lifesaver to Nicholas C. D'Adamo Jr.It was a motherly attempt to sweeten the often acrimonious relationship between the two councilmen, which in one incident a few months ago actually became violent.The Lifesavers haven't worked yet as the two vie for re-election. Mr. D'Adamo and Mr. Cain are running on separate tickets, with Mrs. Garey joining Mr. D'Adamo.

Flanked by family members and new colleagues, a pair of community activists became Baltimore City Council members last night, as more than 100 gleeful supporters applauded and snapped pictures.In a brief ceremony, Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke gave the oath of office to the Rev. Norman A. Handy Sr. and Lois A. Garey, commending both for "an outstanding job trying to strengthen their areas of the city and trying to strengthen the city overall."The pair were appointed unanimously by the council to fill vacant posts.

In Maryland's two NCAA tournament men's soccer games this season, forward Jason Garey has found a defender on his back, kicking at his ankles or banging into his knees almost every time he's tried to create a scoring chance for himself. As the Terps' all-time leading scorer, opponents have focused on Garey and he's been held without a goal in the tournament. Nonetheless, the striker is proving to be a valuable commodity by taking the attention of defenders away from his teammates, who responded with four goals in the two games.