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Carroll County: Westminster Man is arrested in teen's shooting A 24-year-old Hampstead man was arrested early yesterday morning and charged with shooting a teenage girl in a Westminster home, state police said. Police, with the help of a helicopter, found Randy Allen Humple hiding in an area of brush about 125 yards from the home. Humple, of the 4700 block of Maple Grove Road, has been charged with first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and a handgun violation, according to police.

Proponents of a gas station in Glenwood defended their plan yesterday during a Board of Appeals meeting, saying the Route 97 corridor does not have enough stations.Officials of Glenwood LLC are requesting a special exception to build a nine-pump Freestate gas station in a proposed 30,000-square-foot shopping center.Glenwood LLC attorney David A. Carney called Harry Wainwright, vice president of Freestate Petroleum, to testify during the hearing at the George Howard Building in Ellicott City.

An attorney for the developer of a proposed gas station in rural Glenwood maintained again last night that the project at Route 97 and Carrs Mill Road is necessary for the fast-growing population of western Howard County."

Six hours.In that span, the operator of a gas station in North Laurel says he could continue serving customers whom he expects to arrive in droves to get gas, a doughnut or a car wash.But some civic activists contend that those six hours will mean more noise, more intrusive lighting and possibly more crime for the area.At issue is a request by Joseph Duncan to operate the Exxon in the 9200 block of All Saints Road 24 hours a day, seven days a week.The Howard County Board of Appeals is set to make a preliminary decision on the request at a work session at 7: 30 p.m. Thursday in the George Howard Building in Ellicott City.

Developers of a proposed Exxon gas station, convenience store and car wash in Marriottsville told the Board of Appeals last night that the project would blend with the character of the Waverly Woods community.They also said the project would meet what developers described as a growing demand for gas stations in western Howard County.The developers, who are represented by attorney David A. Carney, want to build a six-pump station at the intersection of Warwick Way and Marriottsville Road. The station would be part of a 50,000-square-foot facility.

The Howard County Planning Board unanimously endorsed yesterday a developer's plan to build a gas station in Glenwood that is a precursor for a Columbia-type village center -- a concept that is drawing concern from community residents.The board also unanimously recommended for approval a proposed 8,240-square-foot day care center on Route 103 near Route 104 in Ellicott City.The Board of Appeals will make a final decision on the gas station proposal March 2 and on the day care center plan March 9.Glenwood LLC wants to build a 30,000-square-foot retail center and a gas station on 5.4 acres at the northwest corner of Route 97 and Carrs Mill Road.

The Howard County Board of Appeals has postponed until next month a public hearing on a controversial proposal for a gas station in Glenwood.The board was supposed to review a request for an exception to allow a 10-pump gas station at Carrs Mill Road and Route 97 tonight, but the hearing has been rescheduled for April 6.This is the second delay.The board postponed a March 2 hearing after 200 residents of the western part of the county filled the room at the George Howard Building in Ellicott City and spilled into the hallway.

A decision by a Howard County board left Tom Flynn scratching his head last night.Flynn heard the Board of Appeals conclude that the operator of an Exxon gas station in North Laurel had not persuaded the panel to grant the station's request to remain open 24 hours.But he also heard the board allow Joseph Duncan, who operates the gas station in the 9200 block of All Saints Road from 6 a.m. to midnight, to open an hour earlier.Flynn was baffled."It seems a little inconsistent that if the evidence was insufficient for six hours, why would it be sufficient for one hour?"

About 200 western Howard County residents -- upset about plans for a 10-pump gas station at Carrs Mill Road and Route 97 -- turned out last night to protest at a meeting of the county Board of Appeals.So many people came to the meeting that the room at the George Howard Building in Ellicott City could hold only about a third of them. The meeting was postponed and rescheduled for March 11."I apologize for the inconvenience," said Planning Board member Jerry L. Rushing. "The board was not prepared for the crowd."

Two gunmen stormed into a Mobil gas station on Dorsey Hall Drive in Ellicott City early yesterday morning and robbed it of an unknown amount of cash, Howard County police said.The robbers were wearing ski masks and dark clothing when they entered the gas station, which is in Dorsey Search Village Center, shortly before 3 a.m.Armed with a gray handgun, the robbers forced the male clerk into a back room and then shoved him to the ground. One man emptied the cash register, police said.Pub Date: 10/03/99

Magna seeks extension to reveal bid for tracks The bankrupt owner of Maryland's Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park filed Monday a motion seeking to extend the deadline to provide a lead, or "stalking horse," bid for the Maryland assets to Wednesday. Magna Entertainment Corp., which filed for bankruptcy protection in March, was scheduled to reveal the lead bidder Monday. According to court documents, Magna said it's working to finalize a purchase agreement with an unnamed party, but negotiations were not expected to be completed by Monday's deadline.

An attorney for Exxon Mobil Corp. argued yesterday in federal court for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by dozens of Maryland gas station operators who have sued the petroleum giant for making moves to sell their stations in a way that they say could violate federal and state laws and possibly force them out of their own businesses. The dispute between the operators and Exxon Mobil Corp. was sparked by a decision the company made in June 2008 to sell off gas stations it still owned and leased to the small-business owners who ran them essentially under a franchise system.

A woman found at a Hereford gas station bleeding from a gunshot wound was actually shot during a botched robbery in Pennsylvania Friday night and had been left behind by her accomplice, Pennsylvania state police said. The woman had been shot by the owner of a Shrewsbury, Pa., jewelry store a short time earlier during an attempted armed robbery, said the Pennsylvania State Police. Her name was withheld pending formal charges of attempted armed robbery, they said. An employee at the Exxon station in the 300 block of Mount Carmel Road called local police shortly after 8 p.m. Friday, saying a woman was lying on the lot outside the station office bleeding from what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the back, Baltimore County Police at the Cockeysville Precinct said.

A woman in her 20s was shot at a northern Baltimore County gas station Friday night, according to Baltimore County police. Officers responded to an Exxon station in the 300 block of Mount Carmel Road in the Hereford area at 8:16 p.m., police said. They found a woman who had been shot in the back. The woman was taken to Sinai Hospital, according to police.

A years-long fight over whether to allow a gas station/convenience store and car wash in the Waverly Woods Village Center in Woodstock is a step closer to a resolution that some residents are unhappy about. Convenience Retailing LLC co-owner Rick Levitan won a 3-1 vote by the Howard County Board of Appeals on Monday night to approve conditional zoning, opening the way for a project that scores of residents have fought against at two other nearby locations. But Levitan, who operates gas station/convenience stores in Owen Brown and Dorsey Hall village centers in Columbia, was happy.

Detective cleared in fatal shooting 4 A Baltimore police officer, who has drawn scrutiny for shooting three people in the past 21 months, has been cleared in his most recent shooting, police said. The fatal shooting of Shawn Cannady, 30, on March 6 prompted two state delegates and the Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to call for a federal investigation, saying they were troubled that Detective Jemell Rayam had been involved in three shootings since June 2007.

Wailing almost uncontrollably, Daniel E. Thompson Jr. told a police detective again and again after his arrest last year that he was not a bad person, even as he recounted details of the fatal stabbing of a man who was hours from becoming a father. "Jesus! Jesus!" Thompson moaned repeatedly in the taped conversation. "I pray for help! God help me, please!" Now, during his first-degree murder trial in Baltimore County Circuit Court, the mercy he seeks is from a jury of his peers. Jurors who heard the tape in court yesterday must decide whether he is responsible for the death May 10, 2008, of Carlos Adolfo Santay-Carrillo, 19, during what police said was a botched robbery while the victim was buying gas at a Catonsville gas station.

In what officials say is the largest environmental penalty ever levied by the state, ExxonMobil Corp. has agreed to pay $4 million to the Maryland Department of the Environment for a 26,000-gallon gasoline spill at a Baltimore County service station almost three years ago. Under the agreement announced yesterday, the oil giant could face an additional annual penalty of $1 million if it does not stick to a cleanup schedule that could last several more...

Raymond Edward Adolph, former longtime owner of a Lutherville gas station that was popular with Colts football players, died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Timonium resident was 74. Mr. Adolph was born in Baltimore and raised in Idlewylde. He was a 1953 graduate of Polytechnic Institute and attended the Johns Hopkins University. In the 1950s, Mr. Adolph worked with his brother, Walter G. "Mose" Adolph, who had owned and operated a Sinclair Oil Co. filling station on York Road in Govans, before purchasing a Sunoco station in Lutherville.

The Q: The high price of gasoline has Townson Burkindine in Essex thinking a lot about what his elected officials have done over the years to help, or rather, hurt consumers. "I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard somewhere that the General Assembly passed a law that retailers selling gasoline can't sell gasoline below a certain price," Burkindine said. "It blocked BJ's and Sam's Clubs from selling below cost, I think, to protect Maw and Paw gas stations. Is that right? Is that true?