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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.

For an occasional dollar, Ronnie Smuck has played booking agent for dancers on The Block. From force of habit, he sometimes calls them girls. For this, he now pays a legal price which defies reason.Go back to last December. A woman who works on The Block asks Smuck for a loan to help pay her rent and buy Christmas gifts. Smuck helps out, but says he needs the money back after the holidays.On Jan. 9, he goes to The Stage Door, just off The Block, to ask about repayment. But he gets into an argument with the bar manager, Tony Pulaski, and the two decide, in the time-honored and primitive way, to settle the argument outside, with fists.

Threatening to hold the Baltimore housing authority in contempt, a Baltimore District Court judge has sharply criticized a major subsidized rent program, terming its administration "abominable." According to a tape of a court hearing held Aug. 22, Judge Askew Gatewood Jr. noted phone calls that went unanswered and the inability of tenants and landlords in the Section 8 program to get access to the rental assistance office. Housing authority officials "have disgusted me over and over," Gatewood said at the hearing, held in the case of a tenant who was seeking to get her new apartment approved for the subsidy program.

On March 19, 2005, GLADYS JEANETTE WHALEY, beloved wife of the late Ulysses O. Whaley, devoted mother of Betty Straley, Mary Ann Gatewood, Billy J. Whaley and Lawrence O. "John" Whaley, dear sister of Ruby Vernon, Maggie Williams, and Bonnie Baer, loving "Granny" of 9 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. A Funeral Service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue, on Wednesday at 12 P.M. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery. Friends may call on Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M.

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.

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.

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."

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...

College Park -- Since she arrived on campus last year, Maryland junior guard Sa'de Wiley-Gatewood has let anyone who will listen know that she's not a fan of cold weather, which makes winters here interesting for the Pomona, Calif., native. Yet, while Wiley-Gatewood figures to get caught up in a blizzard tonight, when No. 2 North Carolina unleashes its patented half-court trap on the third-ranked Terps in tonight's nationally televised showdown at Comcast Center, she'll actually try to get immersed in the storm.

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.