Hallway

We have seen the future, and it is built in.That's right -- built-ins. Storage for every conceivable object from clothes to televisions and VCRs, from linens to linguine.Storage can be a serious problem in old houses, many of which were built without any closets at all. If they have nooks and crannies -- space at the end of a hallway or under the stairs -- there may be places to tuck storage units away.But in houses where the original rooms are square or rectangular, with multiple doors and windows, finding room for storage can be a real problem.

After a hung jury had been declared yesterday in the Tonya Lucas arson and murder trial, Baltimore homicide detective Sgt. Gary Childs and defense attorney Mark A. Van Bavel went face to face in a courthouse hallway to loudly debate the evidence -- including evidence the jury never heard.For the first time, Sergeant Childs publicly accused the 29-year-old East Baltimore woman of setting her rowhouse on fire to kill her 2-year-old son, who weighed 10 pounds and showed other signs of child abuse.

PALM DESERT, Calif. -- It's half-past 8 and the sun has lon since slipped behind the distant San Jacinto mountains. A four-piece band has just swung into a milky rendition of "Surfing USA," drowning out the clinking of ice and glasses from the poolside bars.David Seldin, coordinator of Jacksonville's effort to land an NFL expansion team, has spotted a VIP among the 100 or so football officials at the outdoor reception. He motions discretely but urgently for his newest investor -- a shoe magnate with homes in three states -- and soon has him exchanging pleasantries with an influential team official.

Rob Cameron was so into the golf tournament that he took along a full bag of clubs, driver and all.That wouldn't be so unusual, except this was miniature golf. Indoors. In a hotel."I'm here to win," said Mr. Cameron, a Severn resident who won the charity tournament last year. "I've used the sand wedge already. I knew everyone would be out to get me this year."More than 120 people paid $55 each Saturday to putt down hallways, through rooms, around video games, down stairs and into elevators to raise money for the county's Take Back the Street community policing program.

When the ninth-grade boy got ready to go to school at Chesapeake High on the morning of Feb. 7, he packed his books and a loaded .22-caliber handgun.And when administrators caught him with the gun at the end of the school day, he told them he was afraid, that he'd been threatened by two other students. He had not told his teachers or principal about the threats. He figured he'd protect himself by bringing a handgun from home.The boy walked around school all day with the handgun tucked intothe pocket of his jacket.

A young drug trafficker believed to have been shot to death this week by Baltimore police officers in a gunbattle at a high-rise housing project instead may have been killed by gunfire from someone who has yet to be identified by police.Autopsy findings suggest that two of three bullets that struck 25-year-old Wayne D. Watts -- including one slug that fatally pierced the heart -- may have been fired by a .22-caliber revolver recovered by detectives at the scene, sources close to the investigation say.A third wound to the groin was caused by 9mm jacketed ammunition, used by plainclothes officers who fired 15 rounds into a crowded fifth-floor hallway at 1058 Argyle Ave. after Watts shot at them with a .357-caliber Magnum handgun.

Something was wrong. The hallway was quiet -- usually it's noisy. Children usually play in the hall, and neighbors usually talk to each other as they wait for the elevator.But yesterday no music blared from the apartments, and no one was in the fifth-floor hallway of the 1058 Argyle Ave. building of the George B. Murphy public housing development."It's always this way for a while after someone gets shot or they have a raid. People just don't know what to do yet," one resident said, adding:"And we had us some shooting here last night."

Something was wrong. The hallway was quiet -- usually it's noisy. Children usually play in the hall, and neighbors usually talk to each other as they wait for the elevator.But yesterday no music blared from the apartments, and no one was in the fifth-floor hallway of the 1058 Argyle Ave. building of the George B. Murphy public housing development."It's always this way for awhile after someone gets shot or they have a raid. People just don't know what to do yet," one resident said, adding: "And we had us some shooting here last night."

The mutilated body of a 50-year-old Govans woman was found yesterday in her home, and police issued a warrant for the arrest of her 30-year-old son.Dessie Williams' body was discovered just before noon in the second-floor hallway of her home in the 5200 block of Ivanhoe Avenue.Homicide detectives said that she had suffered extreme trauma to the body and that one of her limbs had been severed.Late last night, police recovered the murder weapon, an electric circular saw, and issued a warrant for the arrest of Clifton Williams, Ms. Williams' son, who lived with her.The body was discovered at 11:45 p.m. by a daughter, Sheila Mayor, 30, who had returned to the house after doing errands, the police said.