Hanover Street

In yesterday's editions of The Sun, dates for closing of the Hanover Street bridge were reported incorrectly. The bridge will be closed for repairs from 7 p.m. Oct. 18 to 5 a.m. Oct. 21.* The Sun regrets the error.

Hundreds of people gathered in Federal Hill on Monday night to remember three young people killed late Sunday when police say they were struck by a stolen vehicle. Holding candles and wearing shirts adorned with the victims' pictures, there were attempts to give testimonials and sing "Amazing Grace," but the group — representing generations from the Morrell Park neighborhood — was at a collective loss of words. Most just needed a shoulder to cry on. "They were just kids," said neighbor Tony Beckner, 40. "You have three kids doing nothing wrong, and you're gonna take them from us?"

The ramp from southbound Hanover Street to southbound Interstate 95 remained closed yesterday evening and likely will be closed this morning while engineers repair damage from yesterday's early-morning tanker fire, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority police. The South Baltimore bridge was shut down about 3 a.m. after a tanker-truck overturned on the ramp, leading to traffic delays forcing the Maryland Transit Administration to temporarily shut down the Camden MARC train line between Baltimore and Washington.

Rosemary Muir likes to dress up her goose. A school outfit in September. A tuxedo for formal occasions. A wedding gown when her daughter got married. And, of course, appropriate attire for the appropriate holiday. Muir bought her first and, she thought, her last 26-inch tall, 90-pound concrete goose two decades ago in Ohio and brought it with her to Howard County. Ten years ago, she and her husband took the prized lawn ornament to their new home on South Hanover Street, in South Baltimore's Otterbein.

There are brief moments of peace here. The caw of seagulls fills the air. Ducks wade in the water. A gauzy haze shrouds the city buildings glistening from afar. More so, there is the constant whiz of cars and trucks as they rumble across the concrete span of the Hanover Street bridge. This is not your idyllic vision of fishing. But in a city where crab is king, this is where many a man - even a woman or two - will come to haul in blue crabs from the murky water below. Call it crabbing, city-style, where the exhaust and fumes of trucks whizzing by don't matter, nor does that not-so-pleasant odor wafting up from the Patapsco River.

Bending over backward to accommodate Hollywood, Baltimore plans to close the Hanover Street bridge Saturday and possibly Monday so a production company can stage a scene in which a boat appears to land on the structure. The city's Department of Transportation announced yesterday that the bridge between South Baltimore and Cherry Hill will close at 3 a.m. Saturday to allow Los Angeles-based Revolution Studios to film a scene for the movie XXX: State of the Union. The span - formally called the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge - will reopen from 6 a.m. to midnight Sunday for Ravens game traffic, but then could close for another 24 hours if the film crew still needs the bridge.

Bending over backward to accommodate Hollywood, Baltimore plans to close the Hanover Street bridge Saturday and possibly Monday so a production company can stage a scene in which a boat appears to land on the structure. The city's Department of Transportation announced yesterday that the bridge between South Baltimore and Cherry Hill will close at 3 a.m. Saturday to allow Los Angeles-based Revolution Studios to film a scene for the movie XXX: State of the Union. The span - formally called the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge - will reopen from 6 a.m. to midnight Sunday for Ravens game traffic, but then could close for another 24 hours if the film crew needs the bridge.

South Baltimore's Hanover Street Bridge will be closed to all traffic from 7 p.m. today to 5 a.m. Monday because of repair work.Motorists should follow these detours:* Northbound traffic west on Waterview Avenue, north on Baltimore-Washington Parkway (I-295/Russell Street), north on I-95, south on Hanover Street (Exit 54), west on Cromwell Street, follow signs, and north on Hanover Street.* Southbound traffic west on Cromwell Street, north on Hanover Street, south on I-95, south on Baltimore-Washington Parkway (I-295/Russell Street)

THOUSANDS of NAACP members descended on Baltimore for their convention this week, prompting visits to the major tourist attractions that line the Pratt Street corridor. What most of the hundreds of thousands of tourists who visit the Inner Harbor each year don't realize is that they are walking on sacred ground, where countless thousands of men, women, and children suffered during Baltimore's darkest hour. Between 1815 and 1860, traders in Baltimore made the port one of the leading disembarkation points for ships carrying slaves to New Orleans and other ports in the deep South.

An 82-year-old man was stabbed to death yesterday after two men forced their way into his South Baltimore row house in an apparent attempt to attack his grandson, according to police.Raleigh Herman Atkins, of the 1700 block of Clarkson Street, was taken to University Hospital, where he died at 2:20 a.m. of a stab wound of the back, the police said."It was senseless. They didn't have any reason to do that to him," Mr. Atkins' 26-year-old grandson, Paul George Kratsas, said yesterday. "It was me they wanted."

Jack Lipsitz, a retired co-owner of a Baltimore wholesale dry goods firm who was a World War II combat veteran, died Monday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Atrium Village Retirement Community in Owings Mills. The former longtime Pikesville resident was 93. Mr. Lipsitz was born in Baltimore and raised on Hanover Street, above his family's dry good business, D. Lipsitz and Sons, that had been founded by his father in 1900. After graduating from Southern High School in 1933, he joined his father in the business that sold clothing, underwear and towels to stores, family members said.

Appeals court squelches pit bull-shooting lawsuit 2 An Edgewater woman whose pit bull was fatally shot by an Anne Arundel County police officer in 2006 will not be able to go forward with a $3 million lawsuit against the county, the state Court of Special Appeals ruled yesterday. Deborah Ransom filed the lawsuit in July 2007, alleging that the officer, Adam Hinson, had been reckless and used excessive force. The Court of Special Appeals sided with Anne Arundel Circuit Court in approving a motion by the county to dismiss the suit.

Pasadena woman dies in car crash A 50-year-old Anne Arundel County woman was killed Thursday night after she lost control of her car in Severna Park, struck a guardrail, spun around and overturned, police said yesterday. Police said Kristine Ann Moore of the 8300 block of Sail Circle in Pasadena was driving a 2001 Toyota Land Cruiser north on Ritchie Highway near Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard about 10:40 p.m. when her vehicle drifted off the right side of the road.

The ramp from southbound Hanover Street to southbound Interstate 95 remained closed yesterday evening and likely will be closed this morning while engineers repair damage from yesterday's early-morning tanker fire, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority police. The South Baltimore bridge was shut down about 3 a.m. after a tanker-truck overturned on the ramp, leading to traffic delays forcing the Maryland Transit Administration to temporarily shut down the Camden MARC train line between Baltimore and Washington.

Baltimore's Department of Transportation is warning motorists of several street closures in the city because of construction: Hanover Street between Ostend and Montgomery streets will be closed until Dec. 21 so public works crews can replace a 10-inch water main. People who live and work in the area will have access. Southbound Hanover Street traffic will be detoured onto Charles Street, west onto Ostend Street and back to Hanover. Northbound Hanover Street traffic will be detoured east onto Ostend Street, north onto Charles Street and onto Montgomery.

Water main that burst Saturday is repaired and service restored A 10-inch water main that ruptured Saturday, flooding and damaging South Hanover Street on the border of Federal Hill and Sharp-Leadenhall, was repaired yesterday and water restored to about 30 rowhouses, a Department of Public Works spokeswoman said. Shortly before noon, work crews also repaired Hanover Street, just south of Hamburg Street, well before the 7 p.m. preseason football game between the Ravens and the Philadelphia Eagles.

The driver of a tanker-truck that crashed on a South Baltimore interstate ramp on Sunday, spilling thousands of gallons of ethanol and sparking a fire that burned for hours, has been identified as a 45-year-old resident of Richmond, Va., authorities said yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Maryland Transportation Authority said dental records were used to identify Michael John Robinson Sr., who was trapped in the wreckage until firefighters could extinguish the blaze on the elevated ramp over South Hanover Street.

Baltimore's Department of Transportation is warning motorists of several street closures in the city because of construction: Hanover Street between Ostend and Montgomery streets will be closed until Dec. 21 so public works crews can replace a 10-inch water main. People who live and work in the area will have access. Southbound Hanover Street traffic will be detoured onto Charles Street, west onto Ostend Street and back to Hanover. Northbound Hanover Street traffic will be detoured east onto Ostend Street, north onto Charles Street and onto Montgomery.

The driver of a tanker-truck that crashed on a South Baltimore interstate ramp on Sunday, spilling thousands of gallons of ethanol and sparking a fire that burned for hours, has been identified as a 45-year-old resident of Richmond, Va., authorities said yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Maryland Transportation Authority said dental records were used to identify Michael John Robinson Sr., who was trapped in the wreckage until firefighters could extinguish the blaze on the elevated ramp over South Hanover Street.

The fatal tanker-truck accident Sunday evening that turned a South Baltimore interstate ramp into a waterfall of blazing ethanol caused no structural damage, authorities said yesterday. The sharply curving, elevated entrance ramp to southbound Interstate 95 is expected to reopen by Wednesday morning, after crews mill and replace the road surface and replace a portion of the safety wall, said Cpl. Jonathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Under the ramp, South Hanover Street - where six parked cars and a truck were ignited by the stream of burning fuel spilled from the tanker - was opened to traffic late yesterday afternoon.