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HARTFORD, Conn. -- Maryland women's basketball coach Brenda Frese hasn't shied away from sizable gambles during the Terps' rise to prominence, and in the first game of her team's defense of a national title yesterday, she made perhaps her biggest roll of the dice yet. At the beginning of Maryland's 89-65 win over Harvard in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Frese benched sophomore point guard Kristi Toliver for junior Sa'de Wiley-Gatewood, who...

HARPERS FERRY, W. Va. -- Larry Luxenberg thinks it's a shame people can't see Emma Gatewood's shower curtain. Or Gene Espy's 40-year-old wool socks.For Luxenberg, an author, New York financial adviser and passionate hiker, these everyday items are sacred icons of the sport he loves. He wants to display them and other historic hiking artifacts in a museum near the Appalachian Trail Conference headquarters in this historic town.Such a museum, he says, would honor people like Gatewood and Espy, who found pleasure in putting one foot in front of the other, and, perhaps, inspire folks who believe the great outdoors is the space between their car and the office to, well, take a hike.

A 1-year-old girl was critically injured yesterday when she was struck by the family van as it drifted backward on a West Baltimore street, police said.Four other children and a woman were injured when they jumped from the driverless van, said Sgt. Scott Rowe, a police spokesman.Rowe said Mark Gatewood parked the 1985 Ford Econoline van in front of a store in the 600 block of Wheeler Ave. about 12: 30 p.m. -- with the gearshift in park and the engine off -- and entered the store. His wife, Jill Holly, 31; their children -- Kelly Gatewood, 1, Jasmine Gatewood, 8, Shyheen Holly, 3, Courtney Holly, 9 -- and a friend, Morgan Davis, 3, remained in the van.Minutes later, the gearshift disengaged, causing the van to coast backward toward Edmondson Avenue, Rowe said.

With housing inspectors and the neighborhood association demanding action on his vacant and crumbling West Baltimore building, Judge Askew W. Gatewood Jr. found help at City Hall.But when $175,838 turned out to be insufficient to convert the former restaurant and lounge into two small rowhouses, the Schmoke administration came through with another $30,000.Championed by Housing Commissioner Daniel P. Henson III, the Gatewood project overcame complaints about its high cost and a warning that it didn't fit into the housing department's master plan.

From the Maryland Institute, College of Art, John Stoneham writes: "It was Archibald MacLeish who said, 'A poem should not mean but be.' Why should this not be true of Martha Gatewood's painting?" Stoneham refers to Gatewood's strange three-panel work, "Aliens Go Bowling In Utah And Find True Love," which caught my eye during a burrito at Mencken's Cultured Pearl Cafe and which prompted me to invite public perusal and comment. Why? Because if there's anything I enjoy more than fishing, opera and Italian food, it's frivolous intellectualizing.

Today I offer a challenge and a treat. Go to Mencken's Cultured Pearl on Hollins Street and eat a burrito. But that's not the challenge; that's the treat. The challenge is to look at Martha Drew Gatewood's work of art, the one titled, "Aliens Go Bowling In Utah and Find True Love," and give me, in 100 words or less, your interpretation of it.Go ahead, I dare ya. Tell me what each element of this bizarre wall piece signifies and what, taken as a whole, it all means. After I hear from you, I'm going to talk it over with Martha and try to determine what she was thinking when she executed it. Martha calls her stuff "obstinately senseless paintings."

ANNAPOLIS -- A leading cancer surgeon's efforts to restore his reputation reached the state's highest court yesterday as several judges questioned the rationale for his 1993 conviction on a charge of battering a female patient.The long, murky legal battle of Dr. George Elias, chief cancer surgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center, arrived at the state Court of Appeals 19 months after he was convicted of misdemeanor battery during a non-jury trial in Baltimore District Court.Dr.

Reading Time: Two Minutes.Maryland coach Mark Duffner should moonlight delivering inspirational messages on small radio stations throughout the South. His remarks during the weekly ACC coaches teleconference are so uplifting. For instance, he was "very happy and pleased" the Terps beat West Virginia and he views the game and the first half of the Florida State game "as a shot in the arm" as the team prepares for Wake Forest this week. But the Terps are not overconfident: "We realize we have to build on the effort last week and have to get some things squared away and continue to improve."

It's too bad every young athlete in these parts couldn't have been at Martin's West yesterday for the State of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame's annual induction luncheon.They would have heard wonderful and inspiring speeches -- Bob Wade's touching comments as presenter for the late Reggie Lewis; jockey Phil Grove's sincere and humble acceptance; the gratitude expressed by Ralph Bogart, who has been winning golf championships for 56 years, and who, at 75, carries a 4 handicap.But it was Tom Gatewood's message that probably would have meant the most.

More than 100 workers continued their strike yesterday against Parks Sausage Co., Baltimore's last remaining meatpacking operation, protesting contract concessions that the company said were necessary for survival."

On September 3, 2009, THOMAS GATEWOOD, SR. Friends may visit the family owned March Funeral Home West, Inc., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 8:30AM, where the family will receive friends on Friday at 9AM, followed by funeral service at 9:30AM.

It is Friday afternoon, two days before the 12th-ranked Maryland women's basketball team hosts second-ranked North Carolina, and Sa'de Wiley-Gatewood is on the sideline as the rest of her teammates run through practice. As the Maryland starters play defense against the scout-team offense, the redshirt senior rides a stationary bike. As the Terrapins sprint and sweat through a full-court, five-on-five drill, Wiley-Gatewood sits off to the side and does sit-ups and stretches her legs. Wiley-Gatewood is not injured, per se. She will play tonight against the preseason Atlantic Coast Conference favorites, either as a starter for the ninth time this season or as one of the first substitutes off the bench.

A Baltimore judge accused of dumping hundreds of tons of building materials along his waterfront property in Anne Arundel County was sentenced yesterday to one year of unsupervised probation and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and remove the debris in a deal that will likely spare him a criminal record. District Judge Askew W. Gatewood Jr. pleaded not guilty to one count of unlawfully filling state wetlands without a license but avoided a trial by agreeing to the prosecutor's statement of facts.

A Baltimore judge accused of illegally dumping hundreds of tons of construction debris on his waterfront property in Pasadena will have to stand trial in Anne Arundel County, despite his attorney's allegations yesterday that he is the victim of political pressures. John F. Dougherty had argued that Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold had unfairly targeted District Judge Askew W. Gatewood Jr. for prosecution because of his position as a judge. The Maryland attorney general's office charged Gatewood in a 12-count indictment in January, two months after Leopold publicly suggested the judge was getting special treatment after the discovery of the dump site in 2006.

No immediate disciplinary action will be taken in response to the filing of criminal charges against Baltimore District Judge Askew W. Gatewood Jr., a spokesman for the Maryland judiciary said yesterday. "The court will let the legal process work. Judge Gatewood has been a judge for more than 23 years. These charges do not relate to his performance on the bench," said the spokesman, Darrell S. Pressley. A lawyer for Gatewood said he did not expect the charges -- stemming from allegations that the judge failed to clean up hundreds of tons of construction rubble dumped on his waterfront property in Anne Arundel County -- to have any effect on Gatewood's judgeship.

The Maryland women's basketball team announced that Sa'de Wiley-Gatewood will sit out the remainder of the season because of injuries. Wiley-Gatewood, a highly touted, 5-foot-9 point guard from Pomona, Calif., who joined the Terps in midseason last year after a season and a half at Tennessee, has not played at all this season because of tendinitis in her knees. After playing in 22 games last season, averaging 5.6 points and 2.4 assists, Wiley-Gatewood has missed the entire 2007-08 season while rehabilitating her knees.

A Baltimore City District Court judge and real estate developer is facing fines and court action from the state and Anne Arundel County after failing to clean up hundreds of tons of landfill rubble dumped on his property along the Patapsco River. The state attorney general's office yesterday filed a complaint seeking a $10,000 penalty against Judge Askew W. Gatewood Jr., who officials say deposited truckloads of drywall, cinderblocks, broken bathroom fixtures and other landfill rubble along the waterfront of his Riviera Beach house.

State investigators are exploring criminal charges against a Baltimore judge who is suspected of dumping more than 40 truckloads of debris along the waterfront of his property in Pasadena. This week, Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold questioned the pace of the investigation, which county officials began in October last year after receiving a tip that landfill rubble - including drywall, cinderblocks and broken bathroom fixtures - had been deposited along the shores of the Patapsco River on a Riviera Beach property owned by District Judge Askew W. Gatewood Jr. The investigation was referred to state authorities.

The Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration is beginning a $710,000 project to resurface about one-half mile along U.S. 1 (Washington Boulevard), from the CSX Railroad overpass to north of Gatewood Drive, near Jessup. Single-lane closures along U.S. 1 will occur between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays. Arrow panels, drums, cones and barrels will guide motorists through the work zone. Delays should also be expected along Interstate 95 and U.S. 1 as a result of a $15 million safety and resurfacing project under way at night along I-95 between Routes 32 and 100. The U.S. 1 project is to be completed by the end of June, if weather conditions are favorable.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Maryland women's basketball coach Brenda Frese hasn't shied away from sizable gambles during the Terps' rise to prominence, and in the first game of her team's defense of a national title yesterday, she made perhaps her biggest roll of the dice yet. At the beginning of Maryland's 89-65 win over Harvard in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Frese benched sophomore point guard Kristi Toliver for junior Sa'de Wiley-Gatewood, who...