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The Centennial Cue and Karaoke Club in Ellicott City is operating without the ability to sell alcoholic beverages, which isn't good for business, but things could get worse. Howard County's liquor board is considering revoking the club's suspended license, after Harrison Ho Kang, the sole legal operator, acknowledged at a hearing that he had left the business. He is charged with violating 10 liquor board rules. The club, which boasts 20 large pool tables and a long bar, is at 10045 Baltimore National Pike in a new shopping center behind the Double T and Forest diners.

When people who have moved away get sentimental about Baltimore, they get especially worked up about Nam Kang. This is the oldest of the several Korean restaurants in the Charles North neighborhood, the one with its entrance down a flight of exterior stairs. Nam Kang is open 17 hours a day, seven days a week, but many of its fans formed lasting attachments to it in the very small hours of the morning, after a night on the town.

Howard County's liquor board took the ultimate action - and an unusual one - against an Ellicott City billiards club by permanently revoking the already-suspended liquor license of the Centennial Cue and Karaoke Club. The board, which is composed of the five County Council members, said in a 10-page opinion that the club, at 10045 Baltimore National Pike, had so many violations of county liquor board rules that the licensee "completely abdicated responsibility for and supervision of the sales of alcoholic beverages."

When people who have moved away get sentimental about Baltimore, they get especially worked up about Nam Kang. This is the oldest of the several Korean restaurants in the Charles North neighborhood, the one with its entrance down a flight of exterior stairs. Nam Kang is open 17 hours a day, seven days a week, but many of its fans formed lasting attachments to it in the very small hours of the morning, after a night on the town. People will tell you that the food Nam Kang serves, especially things like spicy seafood stews, barbecued meats, and seafood pancakes, is restorative.

A Baltimore County man was sentenced to five years in prison late last week on charges stemming from a drug-related shooting on the parking lot of a Columbia restaurant last year. Jonathan Exantus, 18, of the 4100 block of Twin Circle Way in Halethorpe pleaded guilty Thursday before Howard County Circuit Judge O. Diane Leasure to handgun charges and received the five-year sentence. In addition, Exantus pleaded guilty to assaulting a corrections officer in the Howard County Detention Center, where he was being held.

A small group of neighborhood residents protested outside a Walbrook grocery store today after a 57-year-old man died when he suffered a heart attack in the store and was taken outside and left on the sidewalk.The protesters urged potential customers and passers-by to boycott the store whose owners yesterday evicted James Drumwright, of Druid Park Drive, apparently believing he was drunk.Angry residents said Drumwright's death was due a lack of sensitivity on the part of Kenney Kang, 31, the owner of the B&M Market in the 3100 block of W. North Ave. Kang, who has owned the market for the past three years, is Korean and the neighborhood is predominantly black.

The owner of a Mount Airy gas station was injured slightly yesterday after he ran after and was struck by a pickup truck that drove off without paying for $27 worth of gasoline. The incident occurred at 8:24 a.m. at the Shell station south of Mount Airy on Route 27 at Lakeview Court in Frederick County, according to Maryland State Police. The gas station owner, Kenny Kang, 36, of Ellicott City couldn't see the rear license plate of the truck and was trying to see the front plate when he was struck, said his wife, Kristine Kang, 35. "He went to look for the plate and ... my husband thought [the driver]

Chris Amos always had a routine when he closed up at night. To make sure there was no one lurking outside the liquor store in Fullerton's Putty Hill Plaza Shopping Center, Amos would leave first, check the parking lot, and wait for his boss to walk out of the building and get into his car safely. "I wouldn't leave until he did," said Amos, 28, who had worked at the store for eight years. But on Thursday, his boss, Joon Am Kang, was alone in Putty Hill Liquors when two men wearing stockings as masks burst in about 9 p.m. and demanded money, police said.

Two Howard County men pleaded guilty this week in Howard County Circuit Court to charges stemming from a drug-related shooting in the parking lot of a Bennigan's last year that left one man paralyzed. On Tuesday, Raymond Ko Kang, 19, of the 10000 block of Hillingdon Road in Woodstock, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking with the use of a firearm and to first-degree assault. Jonathan Kim, 19, of the 3500 block of Split Rail Lane in Ellicott City, pleaded guilty to possession of drugs with the intent to distribute and to second-degree assault, according to the Howard County state's attorney's office.

James Drumwright, who died of a heart attack after employees carried him out of a West North Avenue market because they thought he was only drunk, was intoxicated when he died, the state medical examiner said yesterday.Mr. Drumwright, 57, had a blood alcohol level of .20 at the time of his death Thursday, said Dr. John E. Smialek, the medical examiner. The legal level of intoxication is .10. Mr. Drumwright also had chronic heart disease and showed signs of chronic alcoholism, Dr. Smialek said.

Chris Amos always had a routine when he closed up at night. To make sure there was no one lurking outside the liquor store in Fullerton's Putty Hill Plaza Shopping Center, Amos would leave first, check the parking lot, and wait for his boss to walk out of the building and get into his car safely. "I wouldn't leave until he did," said Amos, 28, who had worked at the store for eight years. But on Thursday, his boss, Joon Am Kang, was alone in Putty Hill Liquors when two men wearing stockings as masks burst in about 9 p.m. and demanded money, police said.

Every day, Derek Kang used to chase 20 to 30 people he suspected of dealing drugs out of the vestibule of Sweet Sixteen, a women's clothing store he manages on Pennsylvania Avenue. Now it's down to just one or two, he said, after Baltimore police began a new strategy to eradicate one of the city's largest open-air drug markets: Take away the parking. Business has been down since late fall, when orange "No Stopping" bags first appeared on the meters lining four blocks of the West Baltimore commercial district, and Kang and other merchants along the strip have felt the impact on their bottom line.

A Baltimore County man was sentenced to five years in prison late last week on charges stemming from a drug-related shooting on the parking lot of a Columbia restaurant last year. Jonathan Exantus, 18, of the 4100 block of Twin Circle Way in Halethorpe pleaded guilty Thursday before Howard County Circuit Judge O. Diane Leasure to handgun charges and received the five-year sentence. In addition, Exantus pleaded guilty to assaulting a corrections officer in the Howard County Detention Center, where he was being held.

Two Howard County men pleaded guilty this week in Howard County Circuit Court to charges stemming from a drug-related shooting in the parking lot of a Bennigan's last year that left one man paralyzed. On Tuesday, Raymond Ko Kang, 19, of the 10000 block of Hillingdon Road in Woodstock, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking with the use of a firearm and to first-degree assault. Jonathan Kim, 19, of the 3500 block of Split Rail Lane in Ellicott City, pleaded guilty to possession of drugs with the intent to distribute and to second-degree assault, according to the Howard County state's attorney's office.

CHEVY CHASE - The narrow fairways and hilly layout at Columbia Country Club were unkind for the conclusion of stroke play yesterday in the 56th U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship. Scores were high, with all but four competitors finishing with two-round scores over par as a field of 156 was whittled to 64, with the final five spots determined in a playoff. Play began with a round on Monday. Sung Hoon Kang of South Korea led, shooting 68 yesterday for a total of 3-under-par 137. Patton Kizzire of Tuscaloosa, Ala., was at 138. In third place, at 139, was Brian Harman of Savannah, Ga. Jon Curran of Hopkinton, Mass.

Walk down the narrow, steep steps that lead to Nam Kang, and enter another world - a world where tofu is not health food and where some of the most intriguing dishes are the ones that come free with the meal. The best thing to do is sit back and enjoy the ride. The restaurant serves Japanese, Korean and Chinese dishes, but the multipage menu, divided by cuisine, tells only part of the story. Shortly after we ordered, bowl upon bowl of Korean-style appetizers appeared. These were not listed on the menu and were given free of charge, and they ranged from fiery slices of bok choy to bland rectangles of tofu.

Inside the B&M Market Friday morning, Kenny Kang stood i front of rows of headache tablet boxes and hair treatments and tried to explain away a man's heart attack inside his store."

Neighborhood residents organized a boycott of a West Baltimore grocery store yesterday after a heart attack victim was dragged outside and left on the sidewalk because the store's owner and manager believed he was drunk, witnesses said.The man, identified as James Drumwright, 57, of Druid Park Drive, was left for about 20 minutes on the sidewalk before an ambulance was called, the witnesses said. He was pronounced dead later at Liberty Medical Center.Passers-by were so outraged at the man's treatment that about a half-dozen people stayed outside the store until 7 p.m. to urge shoppers to boycott the grocery, the B&M Market in the 3100 block of West North Avenue.

Howard County's liquor board took the ultimate action - and an unusual one - against an Ellicott City billiards club by permanently revoking the already-suspended liquor license of the Centennial Cue and Karaoke Club. The board, which is composed of the five County Council members, said in a 10-page opinion that the club, at 10045 Baltimore National Pike, had so many violations of county liquor board rules that the licensee "completely abdicated responsibility for and supervision of the sales of alcoholic beverages."

The Centennial Cue and Karaoke Club in Ellicott City is operating without the ability to sell alcoholic beverages, which isn't good for business, but things could get worse. Howard County's liquor board is considering revoking the club's suspended license, after Harrison Ho Kang, the sole legal operator, acknowledged at a hearing that he had left the business. He is charged with violating 10 liquor board rules. The club, which boasts 20 large pool tables and a long bar, is at 10045 Baltimore National Pike in a new shopping center behind the Double T and Forest diners.