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The days fall like wordsinto silence, swallowedby the deepening lateafternoon. Shadows meltwith gray light, and wedrift into the hardheart of another year'sdying. In our windows,we've placed candles,their artificial glow, warmthfor all the handswe won't hold, allthe lives we can't touch.We face the turn in the season,the twist into the nextyear with smiles setand eyes like snowon a night when the driftspile up and travelers,even those returning homefor celebrations of long traditionand great anticipation, losetheir ways.

SAN FRANCISCO - As Apple Inc.'s iPhone faces stiffer competition in the lucrative market for smart phones, the company is going after one of its main rivals with patent lawsuits claiming theft of touch screen technology and other features. The complaints cover a slew of models made by Taiwanese phone maker HTC Corp., including the Nexus One, G1 and myTouch 3G - all using the free, rival Android mobile operating software from Google Inc. Non-Android phones include HTC's Touch series. Patent cases can take months or years to resolve.

FORT WASHINGTON -- Maryland Sires Stakes competition continues at Rosecroft Raceway tonight and tomorrow with 3-year-old fillies in the spotlight.The fillies will headline three divisions tonight, with Tylown and Winning Wilma looking to repeat their victories of last Saturday. Tomorrow, trotters Rackem and Willow Run Gracie will attempt to make it two straight in their division.The best of the Maryland sophomores will return to Rosecroft on May 31 for competition in one of four $50,000 Sires Stakes Championship events.

"Shakespeare in Love" provides the literary set with its own "Something About Mary," a bonehead comedy for eggheads that manages to be smart and funny even at its most trivial.Exuberant and lovely to look at, this romp will provide an interlude of pure fun for film goers who don't mind taking their Shakespeare with a dash of irreverence and even outrageousness.As in the best of the Bard's plays, there is plenty of swordplay, intrigue and semantic derring-do in "Shakespeare in Love." Moreover, there is plenty of eye-catching glamour and soulful romance, making this the ideal date movie for wordsmiths, theater fans, history buffs, young people (hey, it's got Ben Affleck)

I'VE HAD AIDS since 1988. Needless to say, I've had to endure quite a bit of pain and suffering over the past several years.A lot of senseless pain and suffering, to say the least.All in exchange for one shot of heroin. That's all it took.I unknowingly shared a dirty needle with one of my cellmates in the Maryland State Penitentiary, and that's all it took to bring me to where I'm at today.I wake up to new physical developments in my body most every day now. These developments are never positive to health nor encouraging to life.

Several members of Sykesville Town Council are shifting committee assignments, effective immediately.Mayor Jonathan S. Herman made the changes to bring different perspectives to departments.Michael Burgoyne will work with the Historic District Commission, while Michael Kasnia takes Burgoyne's slot on the Recycling Committee.Garth Adams will replace Bill Hall as chairman of the Recreation and Parks Council. Hall, a career firefighter, becomes liaison with the town Police Department.Daryl Doxzen and Eugene Johnson will continue their respective assignments with the Planning Commission and Public Works Department.

A mass of Christian burial for Margaret L. Miller, a former Provident Bank employee, will be held at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at St. John the Evangelist Church, Ritchie Highway and Cypress Creek Road in Severna Park.Mrs. Miller, an Arnold resident for 17 years, died Thursday at her home after a brief illness. She was 79.The former Margaret Neighoff was born and reared in Baltimore, where she attended Fourteen Holy Martyrs Commercial School. She retired in 1970 from the Provident Bank of Maryland at Howard and Saratoga streets in Baltimore, where she had worked as a data processing operator.

County police arrested an Annapolis man Sunday on charges of stealing a car license tag.Theodore Albert Gilman, 29, of the 1200 block of Marda Lane was charged with theft.Police stopped a 1981 Toyota Celica that was traveling south on Ritchie Highway near Aquahart Road in Glen Burnie shortly after 4: 30 p.m. because it had no front tag, police said.The driver told Officer Michael Galligan that the tag that was on the car did not belong to him, police said, but that he found it in his yard.

A man stuffed a bag with candy and cigarettes at a Glen Burnie convenience store Thursday, then assaulted the clerk who challenged him to pay for the items, tearing the bag and spilling its contents on the floor, county police said.The man walked into the store in the 300 block of Hospital Drive about 7: 30 a.m., filled a bag with $23 worth of candy and cigarettes, then took a soft drink to the counter to pay for it.The clerk, Sohail Ashraf, asked the man if he intended to pay for the items, then grabbed the bag and put it behind the counter, police said.

It has been 10 years now. Ten years since Cal Ripken caught Garry Maddox's line drive for the final out of the 1983 World Series. Ten years since he jumped for joy on the Veterans Stadium infield, never realizing it might be the only such celebration of his career."

Success in extending services and upgrading technology at Carroll County Public Library is best understood by reviewing their six-year master plan for capital improvements and projected operating costs, library officials say.The board of trustees for Carroll County Public Library has done its homework, using county planning and development growth projections to establish priorities and prepare a budget plan that will seek $6.3 million in capital improvements through...

WASHINGTON -- After a debate yesterday shot through with raging partisanship, a tortured and torn House of Representatives will convene this morning to vote on the impeachment of the 42nd president of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton.The House's impeachment of a president for the first time in 130 years is all but a foregone conclusion. Democrats spent yesterday intermittently pleading for national forgiveness and hurling invective across the aisle at Republicans -- but largely declining to engage the other party in debate over the law.Republicans have begun preparing for a landmark trial in the Senate that would decide whether Clinton should be convicted and removed from office.

THIS CHRISTMAS, a group of North Carroll Middle School students is sending a touch of home to all 6,000 crew members of the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier that left Nov. 6 for six months in the Persian Gulf.For 130 of the service men and women, that homestyle touch included gift packages and goody bags of candy and snacks.It's part of a year-long project of corresponding with 130 of the Navy personnel to share ideas and learn about geography, current events and commitment.Of Team 7, or about one-third of the eighth grade at North Carroll and their teachers, 124 are voluntarily participating in the project, donating their study period to compose letters and design fund-raisers.

BOSTON -- Could we pause for a moment in our race past the new scientific landmarks? We went by this one so fast that we barely had time for more than a single "gee whiz."This month, the neon news flashing along the medical fast track announced that scientists were finally able to isolate and cultivate embryonic stem cells in the lab. Eventually, we are told, this breakthrough could lead to an endless supply of cells, tissue and organs, not to mention cures for problems from heart disease to Parkinson's disease.

With more and more deserving entries, Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke said it's getting harder to select the winners of the Mayor's Business Recognition Awards. But selected they were, and yesterday the winners of the 24th annual event were given their due at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore across from the Inner Harbor.The awards, sponsored by the Greater Baltimore Committee and the Baltimore Development Corp., honor businesses that have shown outstanding community leadership and service to the city. This year's event paid tribute to deeds ranging from children's immunization to employment opportunities for high school dropouts.

THAT'S NOT THE sound of thunder you'll soon hear rumbling down from the heavens -- only Elizabeth "Toots" Barger, striding to the celestial foul line and teaching them angels how to make the 7-10 split, hon.When Toots got away the other day, at age 85, she left behind not only the most prolific duckpin bowling career in history but a piece of Bawlamer now seen mainly in life's rearview mirror. She was the queen of ducks when bowling was as much a part of the local culture as crab cakes washed down with a National Boh, meetin' ya at Ameche's, and making out at Bengie's Drive-In during the slow scenes in "The Beast That Devoured Cleveland."

County police arrested a Deale man Wednesday on charges of stealing jewelry, coins and a television from a Shady Side home.Jesse Herbert Mitchell, 33, of the 5900 block of Rockhold Drive was charged with burglary and felony theft.Police went to a house in the 4900 block of West End Ave. about 12: 30 a.m. Fredus E. Proctor Jr., owner of the house, told officers someone took an air conditioner from a rear window, climbed in and stole a 13-inch television, four diamond rings, two gold coins and two gold chains from a bedroom.

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Management consultant Walter E. Morgan is standing with real estate broker Harry M. Dunbar, waiting for breakfast and talking politics. Both are African-American Democrats from Columbia, both voted for Parris N. Glendening in 1994 and Dunbar is voting for him again this year.But neither is supporting the Democratic candidate for Howard County executive, James N. Robey. Indeed, their political chat took place at a $250-a-person fund-raiser Thursday for Robey's Republican opponent, Councilman Dennis R. Schrader.

A Carroll County Circuit Court judge denied a motion yesterday to move the Sept. 21 trial of a 16-year-old Westminster boy who will be tried as an adult on charges of selling heroin to a schoolmate who died of an overdose in January.Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. rejected the arguments of Anton J. S. Keating, a Baltimore attorney representing Kristopher Olenginski, saying common sense dictates that it is incumbent upon the state's attorney's office to prosecute crimes it also tries combat with public messages.