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Urbana simply ran away with yesterday's Central Maryland Conference cross country championship meet. Kurt Kuehne edged Linganore's C.R. Thomas in a sprint to the finish line as Urbana put three runners in the top 10 and breezed to the team title. The girls also put three in the top 10 and rolled to the team championship to complete the sweep on a windy afternoon at South Carroll. The Urbana boys had 49 points, easily outdistancing Westminster (83) and defending champion Linganore (84)

Lottie B. Mohr, 101, homemaker, volunteer Lottie B. Mohr, a homemaker and church volunteer, died of congestive heart failure Friday at St. Joseph's Nursing Home in Catonsville. She was 101. Lottie Knopp was born in Rocks in Harford County, the oldest of nine children. She left her family's farm in 1920 to marry John Mohr, who worked as dairyman on Hilton Farm. Like other farm workers, the Mohrs lived on the farm, which is now the site of the Community College of Baltimore County's Catonsville campus.

"Who wears short shorts? We wear short shorts. They're such short shorts. We like short shorts." Don't expect to walk into an NBA locker room these days and hear the words to the Royal Teens' 1958 novelty hit "Short Shorts" blaring out of any boom boxes. Several star players, including Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and Tracy McGrady, have been fined $5,000 by the league's fashion police this season for wearing shorts that defy their definition by being too long. One player who won't get fined is Utah Jazz guard John Stockton, whose trunks put the "trunc" in truncated.

The first page of Phil Hawes' Web site contains a Chinese proverb that reads: "When you hear something, you will forget it. When you see something, you will remember it. Not until you do something, will you understand it." With that spirit, Hawes, a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County helped the students in his summer course to design sustainable environments on regular visits to the woods on the Catonsville campus, where they built a 2-foot dam to help stop erosion and took water and soil samples of area streams.

On her 7th birthday, Denni Haw was given a Cinderella watch and figurine that became the most cherished gift of her childhood. Nearly 30 years later, Denni couldn't pass up the chance to live out a fairy tale of her own making in a Cinderella-theme wedding.Like most modern fairy tales, Denni's Cinderella story has its own twists and turns.The fairy godmother who brought Denni and Norm Crouse Jr. together was not a kindly old woman armed with a magic wand. Norm -- though he is tall, dark and handsome and conveys a certain charm -- wasn't searching the kingdom of Baltimore looking for a wife.

Throughout her life, Lucy Haw loved the Colts. And tomorrow, when she's laid to rest, the Colts Marching Band fight song will be playing."I think she'd really like that," said her son John Haw, of Cary, N.C. The family hopes to have the song, the rallying cry for Colts fans for decades, played at the graveside service by members of the Baltimore Ravens Marching Band.Mrs. Haw, whose prized possession was a signed copy of Johnny Unitas' autobiography "Pro Quarterback," died of a brain tumor Friday at Ridgeway Manor Nursing Home in Catonsville.

The PGA Tour is looking for a site in Howard County on which to build a Tournament Players Club course suitable to host a Senior Tour event, a tour official said yesterday.Tim Hawes, vice president of development for Golf Course Properties Inc., a unit of the PGA Tour in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., would not disclose the location of the potential site until a contract is signed.Hawes said that there was "high likelihood" that the 2-year-old State Farm Senior Classic, which will be played June 28-July 4 at Hobbit's Glen in Columbia, would move to the new site.

NEWARK, Del. -- Throughout a long and arduous Towson basketball season, Marlin Wise has been able to sum up games with a few well-chosen words.Wise did it again yesterday after top seed Delaware ripped apart the Tigers, 83-63, in the quarterfinals of the America East tournament before a record crowd of 5,209 at the Bob Carpenter Center."

"The Robber Bridegroom" is a musical whose supporting characters include a disembodied head, a boy named "Goat" and a singing raven (the only one of the three who's not a birdbrain).In terms of sheer corn pone hokum, it would be hard to top this small-scale 1975 musical by playwright Alfred Uhry (best known for "Driving Miss Daisy") and composer Robert Waldman.The book is based on a novella by Eudora Welty, but the Vagabond Players' production, under Terry J. Long's direction, feels closer to "Hee Haw" than to the work of that gentle Southern writer.

Hundreds of Ellicott City residents tried to stop Susanne Myrtue from opening a beauty parlor inside a house in their neighborhood: Traffic would increase and property values would decrease, they said.But this week, a Howard County land use board voted 5-0 to grant a special exception to zoning laws. The exception allows a small beauty parlor or barber shop in a residential neighborhood.That's just what the Howard County Board of Appeals should have done, said Carl Hawes, who described himself as Ms. Myrtue's boyfriend.