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Anne Arundel officials gave the County Council inaccurate figures about the cost of two multimillion-dollar jail construction projects as far back as 1996, according to the county auditor. Auditor Teresa Sutherland's analysis suggests that the county used decreases in the cost of building the Ordnance Road jail in Glen Burnie to obscure how costs were rising at the Jennifer Road detention center expansion near Annapolis. The cost of the Jennifer Road jail has ballooned from $17 million to $27 million, an increase of nearly 60 percent, since 1996, according to Sutherland, for a host of reasons including soil and sprinkler problems and design changes.

Her friends sometimes treat her like an evangelist with no impulse control. It's probably because she can't keep quiet when she spies a child seat improperly installed, or ill-fitting, or wrong for a child's age or size. But Brooke Edwards Greenbaum has to live with herself, too. Her friends sympathize, but they don't quite understand. She hopes they never have to. Last year, Greenbaum was a passenger in a car that crashed and left four people dead, including her father. Two people survived that accident: Greenbaum and her 15-month-old daughter Lauren, who was strapped into a child seat.

Black & Decker Corp.'s stock price fell 7.2 percent yesterday, after a Salomon Smith Barney analyst downgraded his rating on the company to "neutral" based on information the Towson-based toolmaker said is incorrect. Stephen Kim, an analyst at Smith Barney in New York, said in a research report that he is downgrading his "outperform" rating on Black & Decker's stock "due to the potential for a heightened competitive environment ... over the next year." The report said industry sources have indicated that retailers Home Depot Inc. and Lowe's Cos. Inc. have each asked Stanley Works, a Connecticut-based hand tools manufacturer, to develop a line of power tools, as well as participate in the lock sets category.

YOU WOULD think that a man who saved three people's lives, at considerable risk to his own, would be recognized as a hero. But his story is politically incorrect, so it has received virtually no media attention and his name remains unknown.It all started when a gunman, Richard Gable Stevens, 21, who intended to kill himself and others, took three hostages at a Santa Clara, Calif., gun club with a semiautomatic rifle that he had rented there. His plan was thwarted when an employee of the shooting range shot him twice with a handgun, freeing the hostages.

Dear Mr. Azrael:I recently found out that the measurements made in my house in 1979 were larger than they really were by a considerable amount.Because of it, the square footage of the house has been listed as much larger than my actual square footage, and I didn't realize this.How do I ask that my house be re-measured for assessment purposes?Krumbein Simeon, BaltimoreDear Mr. Simeon:Each county in Maryland, and Baltimore City, assesses real property in a three-year cycle.In Baltimore, the city is divided into three areas.

A Randallstown man who tried to join the Maryland State Police is suing Howard County officials because, he claims, they illegally released incorrect juvenile arrest information to state police recruiters.In a lawsuit filed last week, Clayton M. Queen says Howard County police told state police recruiters that Queen allegedly committed drug-selling offenses in 1989, when he was a juvenile.That information was incorrect -- Queen has no criminal record as an adult or juvenile, he says -- and should not have been released under Maryland law.Howard County officials agreed.

An article in yesterday's Marlyand section gave an incorrect first name for Walter Shook, Baltimore Community Relations supervisor of investigations.The Sun regrets the error.Pub date: 12/30/98

The crossword puzzle grid appearing in today's Television book is incorrect. The correct puzzle and its clues appear on TheSun's Web site, www.sunspot.net, under the features section and also will be included in the Nov. 22 Television book.The Sun regrets the errors.Pub Date: 11/15/98

The first name of Loyola College men's basketball coach Dino Gaudio was incorrect in some of yesterday's editions.The Sun regrets the errors.Pub Date: 11/14/98

Yesterday's Live section listed the wrong time for the Vagabond Theatre's Sunday evening show, which is at 7 p.m., as well as incorrect ticket prices for the theater. Admission is $10, $9 for seniors.The Sun regrets the errors.Pub Date: 11/13/98