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A Westminster woman was injured yesterday when a tractor-trailer rammed the rear of her Jeep Grand Cherokee, rupturing fuel tanks on both vehicles and spilling scores of gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel onto a grassy area leading to Longwell Stream, authorities said.Teresa Ann Bonneyville, 41, of the 1000 block of Long Valley Road was flown by MedEvac helicopter to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where she was in fair and stable condition last night, a hospital spokeswoman said.

A 35-year-old woman was killed and her 5-year-old son seriously injured when her car collided at a Southwest Baltimore intersection early yesterday with a Jeep driven by an off-duty city police officer on his way home from work.Police said that the woman apparently failed to yield while turning left onto Frederick Avenue from Wickham Road about 12: 20 a.m. A department spokesman also said it appeared the woman had been drinking.The officer was identified as Anthony Faulk Jr., 22, who is assigned to the Southwestern police district.

CHICAGO -- Imagine being 28 years old and having no career goals left to pursue.Perhaps you also can imagine for a moment what it feels like to be Michael Jordan, who accepted his 1991 NBA Finals Most Valuable Player trophy and a new Jeep Cherokee yesterday, then admitted he has no more mountains left to scale."

When I didn't show up for work on Monday, the boss called me a wimp.When I didn't show on Tuesday (I've got a computer, which means I never have to leave the house), my friend from Maine, where snow and potatoes and rocky coastline are all they've got, said I was a weenie.I was starting to pick up on a trend here. Snow is not just a nuisance. It's not just shovels full of back-breaking, heart-attack-provoking fun.Snow -- and I never understood this before the blizzard -- is apparently a test of manhood.

A Baltimore County District Court judge increased the bail yesterday for a man charged in the death of a Cockeysville woman who was killed when an unoccupied Jeep crashed into her apartment. Judge Alexandra Williams raised the bail for David Jason Myers, 19, of the 9000 block of Waltham Woods Road, Parkville, from $350,000 to $500,000. In doing so, Williams pointed to court documents indicating Myers' direct role in pushing the Jeep over a curb and sending it careening down a grassy embankment and crashing through an apartment wall early Tuesday.

A 30-year-old Calvert County man was in stable condition yesterday after his Jeep swerved off the road and plunged into a 7-foot-deep drainage pond near Lothian Friday night.Motorists traveling north on Route 4 behind Bryant O'Neil Parker of the 4300 block of Harvey Road in Huntingtown saw his 1989 Jeep swerve off the road into a grassy field. The Jeep traveled more than 100 yards before plunging into the pond, Anne Arundel County police said.The motorists pulled Parker from the pond as his Jeep sank.

Two men who were killed Tuesday when a Jeep Cherokee being pursued by police crashed into a small sport utility vehicle in Northwest Baltimore were identified yesterday by police. Roy Bates, 78, and Joseph A. Thomas, 28, the occupants of the SUV, lived in an apartment building owned by Bates in the 4000 block of Eldorado Ave., also in Northwest Baltimore, according to members of Bates' family. Bates' son, Wayne Fields, 34, said his father owned real estate and had been working as a security guard at a nursing home the past few years.

A Baltimore County jury yesterday found a grocery clerk not guilty of intentionally killing Beasley, a black terrier, in White Marsh when he ran over the dog July 4 with his Jeep.Joseph Glenn Myers Jr., 25, of Kingsville was acquitted of charges of animal mutilation and reckless driving after his Jeep swerved off Heathcliff Road and hit the animal on the grass while he was taking friends to a fireworks display.Thomas Hopkins, who was driving behind Myers, said he saw the Jeep drive toward the dog, then watched the six people in the Jeep "whooping and cheering" after it struck the animal.

One suspect was captured running from a stolen Jeep Cherokee and two others still were being sought in connection with four armed robberies in the Roland Park section of North Baltimore and the Carney section of Baltimore County.The robberies were reported between 4:10 p.m. and 5:03 p.m., beginning on the Rotunda shopping center parking lot, where a 52-year-old woman handed over her purse with about $60 in cash to a gunman. He fled in the Jeep driven by an accomplice.The second robbery was on St. John's Road near Roland Avenue about 4:30 p.m. when a gunman with a partner in the Jeep grabbed the purse of a 53-year-old woman who was sitting in a car in front of her house, police said.

Maryland State Police said yesterday that they plan to charge the driver of a Jeep involved in Friday evening's rush-hour crash on the Bel Air Bypass. State police also identified the mother and son who were killed in the three-vehicle accident. Katherine S. Brady, 31, the front-seat passenger of a minivan that was struck head-on by the Jeep, and Wilson Brady, 8, who was one of two children in the rear seat of the minivan, were pronounced dead at the scene, state police said.