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June 3Meade High School, 7 p.m., at the University of Maryland Baltimore County campusSouth River High School, 7:30 p.m., in the school gymEvening High Schools, 8 p.m., in the Board Room at school system headquarters on Riva Road in AnnapolisJune 4Phoenix Annapolis, noon, at the Phoenix Annapolis Auditorium Annapolis High School, 7:30 p.m., at the Naval Academy's Halsey Field HouseJune 5Broadneck High School, 9 a.m., at the school stadiumArundel High School,...

Since Sam Wessels was diagnosed with autism at age 2, doctors have offered his mother a litany of drugs for the boy from Prozac and Ritalin to Metadate CD and Strattera, commonly used to treat ADHD. Other "alternative" medicine pitches have included special diets and even nicotine. "This is the best you can do?" Sam's mother Lin Wessels wondered. Wessels, like many parents, has waded through a lot of legitimate — but much more illegitimate — research on therapies in the struggle with autism, which affects 1 in 110 children and has no cure.

Bobby Ruse threw a one-hitter and struck out 14 to lead No. 1 C. Milton Wright over North East, 7-0, in the Upper Chesapeake Bay Athletic Conference championship game at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen on Monday. The Indians' only hit came with one out in the bottom of the seventh, when Bobby Dietz hit a single between third and short. "It felt great," Ruse said. "I had a lot of command with my fastball, my defense was great all day behind me and my catcher called a great game.

School board members lamented Monday the problem of crowding in the county's public schools.The space crunch arose during a worried discussion about a capital budget item for 1992-1993 requesting approval to purchase 14 relocatable classrooms for Prospect Mill ElementarySchool.The temporary classrooms are needed in the 1993 school year, whenthe school -- which already has 201 students more than its 705 maximum -- is projected to be far over capacity, with 200 pre-kindergartenstudents and 1,115 students in grades one through five.

In Anne Arundel BWI road construction alters traffic patterns LINTHICUM -- Because of road construction, traffic patterns at Baltimore-Washington International Airport have been temporarily altered. For the next two weeks, airport officials are encouraging passengers traveling on Southwest or Delta airlines to be dropped off or picked up at the new curbside area near Terminal A/B. Officials are also asking customers who are meeting arriving passengers to park in BWI's hourly garage, where the first half-hour of parking is free.

Marguerite Austin-Gorham, a retired child care provider and housekeeper, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Nov. 27 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The East Baltimore resident was 88. Born Marguerite Clark in Baltimore and raised on Edythe Street, she was a 1941 graduate of Dunbar High School. She became a housekeeper and worked for many years at the Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church Rectory at Saratoga and Cathedral streets. She assisted in child care for the Rev. Halsey Moon Cook and for the Rev. William C. McKeachie, who were rectors of the downtown church.

Howard Bank has agreed to buy Cecil Bank's branch at 3 W. Bel Air Ave. in Aberdeen, the institutions announced Monday. Under the deal, Howard Bank, based in Ellicott City, will acquire at least $38 million in loans and $37.9 million in deposits from Cecil Bank. That's about 10 percent of Cecil Bank's deposits. "It was a fit for both of us," said Mary Halsey, Cecil's CEO. "They were looking to expand; we were looking to head back into Cecil County, where are roots are. " Howard Bank's CEO, Mary Ann Scully, said in a statement that the bank had been growing beyond its Howard County roots, and the branch acquisition will mark its entry into Harford County.

When lawmakers added a pair of vaccinations two years ago to the list of those schoolchildren are required to get, they thought there would be plenty of time for everyone to get their proper shots. But when a deadline passed last week, 12,000 students without proof of the hepatitis B and chickenpox vaccines were excluded from school - despite a three-month extension and two-week grace period. Officials were left scrambling to get the students into compliance, while scratching their heads to figure out what went wrong.

Oakland Athletics@Orioles Day ................... Time ............ TV ...................... Starters Tonight ............. 7:05 ......... MASN ............ Dan Haren (1-2, 1.44 ERA) ........................................................................... vs. Erik Bedard (3-1, 5.40 ERA) Tomorrow .......... 3:05 ........... MASN .......... Brad Halsey (yet to pitch this season) ........................................................................... vs. Jeremy Guthrie (1-0, 3.38 ERA)

The Navy's precision flying team, the Blue Angels, will perform high-speed precision maneuvers during the U.S. Naval Academy's Commissioning Week.Safety precautions will be in effect.The Naval Academy Bridge will be closed to vehicles and pedestrians, and sections of the Severn River will be closed to boaters.The Naval Academy gates will be closed to vehicle traffic, except for academy residents, cars with handicapped stickers and shuttle buses, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday.