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Fellow students, friends and family members yesterday mourned the death of Marc David Levy, a promising painter with an eccentric flair who was killed Friday when a driver fleeing police slammed into his car.Levy, who turned 21 last month, was a senior painting major at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, a school of 1,200 in downtown Baltimore.Levy was driving his Honda Civic when a 1999 Nissan Altima with at least two police cruisers following it ran a red light at East 27th and St. Paul streets and broadsided him.Agent Ragina L. Cooper, a Baltimore police spokeswoman, said police had recognized the driver of the Altima and, knowing that he did not have a driver's license, pulled him over near Barclay Elementary School at East 29th and Barclay streets.

Fellow students, friends and family members yesterday mourned the death of Marc David Levy, a promising painter with an eccentric flair who was killed Friday when a driver fleeing police slammed into his car.Levy, who turned 21 last month, was a senior at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, a school of 1,200 in downtown Baltimore, where he majored in painting.He was driving his Honda Civic when a 1999 Nissan Altima with at least two police cruisers following it ran a red light at East 27th and St. Paul streets and broadsided him.Yesterday, relatives gathered with Levy's parents, Stephen and Miriam, and their other son, Jason, 17, at their Reisterstown home amid oil-on-canvas self-portraits Levy had painted.

March's lion-like weather has delayed training and ladder play for city and Baltimore County tennis players, but ready or not, a new season is here.Among private schools, Gilman, which broke McDonogh's string of six straight Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference titles at the end of last season, is loaded again. So is McDonogh. Both teams have their top two players back.The boat won't rock much in Baltimore County, where no coach foresees Pikesville, despite a notable absence, as being unable to compete hard for its 29th county team title in 31 years.

A fraud and conspiracy complaint has been dismissed against a Columbia medical technology company with ties to Novatek International Inc., the bankrupt Columbia firm under Securities and Exchange Commission investigation for stock fraud.The Feb. 4 ruling by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James T. Schneider dismissed the civil complaint against Universal Health Watch Inc. and two former Novatek officers now living in Florida, Rudolphe Baboun Sr., once a director, and Larry Schone, a one-time secretary.

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ready to bring his former foreign minister, David Levy, back into his Cabinet in an effort to shore up his disintegrating coalition and to increase his chances of re-election or assembling a unity government.Levy, a political moderate who resigned in January after denouncing the Netanyahu administration as aimless, said yesterday that he would return, though the terms are still under negotiation.A veteran of Israeli politics, Levy has been offered either the Finance Ministry or the National Infrastructures Ministry, a place in the inner circle, a role in the "final-status" talks with the Palestinians and a chance to lead future negotiations with Syria.

Melvin Hartung Levy, 81, designed kitchensMelvin Hartung Levy, who retired in 1986 as a designer of kitchens and bathrooms, died of leukemia Jan. 13 at Sinai Hospital. He was 81 and lived in Milford Mill.The native of Tuscon, Ariz., was raised in Harlingen, Texas. Interested in electronics and a ham radio operator, he opened Mel's Radio and Appliance Repair in Harlingen in the late 1930s."It was in 1940 when he picked up signals that were going to Argentina and then to Germany. He reported them to the FBI, which led to the arrest of a German agent who was posing as a counselor at a local camp," said a stepdaughter, Stephanie Whippo-Gotschall of Reisterstown.

McDonogh saw its regular season end on an unusual note when it lost to Gilman in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championship match. The Greyhounds scored a 4-2 victory that ended McDonogh's six-year run of championships.But McDonogh coach Laddie Levy found something that might let his Eagles end their season on a much better note. The Eagles will be host to the National Boys Prep Team Tennis Championships, starting today and running through Wednesday, and a victory there would give Levy and his players a reason to smile once more.

With 12 minutes to get two teen-age cousins home by their 11: 30 p.m. curfew, William J. Kassakatis was driving somewhat above the speed limit June 25, when he missed a curve in Eldersburg and hit a tree, killing both girls."

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy resigned yesterday, leaving embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a scant margin to govern and in greater need of his hard-line coalition partners.Levy, among the most moderate members of Netanyahu's hawkish Cabinet, said he was fed up with the government's intransigence on the stalled peace process with the Palestinians and its perceived indifference toward Israel's impoverished citizens.Levy, a Moroccan Jew and leader of the five-member Gesher faction, resigned in a budget flap over funding for social programs that would benefit his core constituency, lower-income Jews of Middle Eastern descent.

WASHINGTON -- From a booth atop the ice here at MCI Center the other night, ESPN's Steve Levy looked over the delirium left in the wake of the Washington Capitals' 3-2 overtime win over Buffalo in the Eastern Conference finals and mused on how much fun he was having."

The problem:: A hole in an East Baltimore sidewalk remained unfilled for four months. The back story:: Harvey Levy owns the Sportsmart on Exeter Street, a family business for 30 years. He noticed a hole in the sidewalk in the 400 block of N. Gay St., near Orleans Street, in April and called 311 to report it. The opening, edged in metal, looked like any number of water meter vaults found elsewhere in the city - except the cover was missing. When Levy saw that prompt action had not been taken, he called back.

The largest group of Howard County landowners in years sought to preserve their farmland forever in the Agricultural Preservation application period that just ended, according to Joy Levy, program administrator. "We are pretty thrilled" at the big response, Levy said. Thirteen landowners are seeking to sell to the county development rights on 1,427 acres, which is probably more than the county can afford right now, Levy said. That compares with three farmers who preserved 247 acres in 2007, the last time the county took applications - just after the maximum price per acre doubled to $40,000.

The cliche about a silver lining for every dark cloud couldn't be truer for Howard County's lagging Agricultural Land Preservation Program. The recession has county coffers bleeding revenues as development and home sales grind along at a slow pace. But what is bad news for developers and landowners is making the county's top price of $40,000 an acre look much more tempting. Although attracting only three takers since 2002, even after the county doubled the top price it would pay for preservation land to $40,000 an acre in 2006, program administrator Joy Levy said 15 to 20 county landowners are lining up for the program now, since the recession stopped developers' thirst for land.

A Baltimore jury Tuesday convicted a couple of paralyzing a 21-year-old man after an argument over a cleaning cart at a BWI Hilton erupted into a high-speed chase and ended in a near-fatal shooting, according to the state's attorney's office. On the night of Oct. 24, 2007, prosecutors said, hotel server Sean Levy got into an argument with another server, Keya Gardner, over the cart. Thinking the dispute was over, Levy agreed to give another co-worker a ride home. But according to prosecutor Patrick Moran, Gardner, 23, called her then-boyfriend, Darryl Newsome, 22, and the two of them chased Levy on Interstate 295 in separate cars into the city, going up to 100 mph. Thinking he had escaped, Levy dropped off the co-worker, but a car with three unidentified men pulled up next to Levy.

A simmering argument between two servers at the BWI Hilton Hotel erupted into a high-speed chase that ended when one server was shot and nearly killed by the other's boyfriend, a Baltimore prosecutor told jurors during opening statements Monday. Describing it as a "wild ride" from the hotel along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and into the city, prosecutor Patrick Moran said the incident was rooted in a dispute over a cart the servers used to clean after events. On the night of Oct. 24, 2007, server Sean Levy, 19, left the hotel with another co-worker, thinking the argument had been resolved, but Moran said the other server, Keya Gardner, chased after him in her car, with her boyfriend in another car. Thinking he was safe, Levy dropped off a co-worker at his Baltimore home.

On April 6, 2009, BESSIE LENA LEVY. On Monday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES

Arrests violate immigrants' rights Evidence that senior staff at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement pressured Baltimore agents to meet arbitrary quotas by arresting Latino immigrants adds a disturbing twist to an already shameful incident ("Immigration official told deputy to 'make more arrests,' ICE report says," Feb. 19). It is encouraging that the Department of Homeland Security has referred this issue for further investigation. DHS consistently asserts that its role is to ensure the rule of law. But this position is not credible if DHS officers are being pushed by senior staff to arrest individuals in violation of their civil and human rights.

On February 6, 2009, LEVY WHITAKER, JR.; loving and devoted husband of Blanche K. Whitaker. On Today, friends may call Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services, 4905 York Road, where the family will receive friends from 4:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. On Thursday, services will be held at Huber Memorial Church, 5701 York Road, where the family will receive friends from 10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-433-7500.

Over the years, Buddy helped quell rowdy Ocean City club crowds, patrol sandy beaches, keep order on the famous boardwalk and assist in arrests. The veteran patrol horse could also be found at major events, such as President Bill Clinton's second inauguration parade 11 years ago. But after 16 years of service with the Ocean City Police Department, Buddy retired last month to a farm in Wicomico County, the department said yesterday. He had been suffering from arthritis and hadn't been used much toward the end of his career, a police spokesman said.

Welcome to the first Monday Consult - the in-print version of a feature we've been running on our parenting blog, Charm City Moms. Each Monday, we consult an expert or two to answer a reader's question about parenting. Recently a commenter on the blog asked, "At what age can we REALLY start using the jogging stroller for jogging? The folks who work at the running store are, well, kinda macho about it ('We started when she was 2 months old!') and the books/literature online sometimes say as late as 8 months."