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Offensive lineman Antonio Logan-El, a former Maryland recruit who caused a stir last year with his dramatic, nationally televised decision to sign with Penn State, will ask coach Joe Paterno to be released from his scholarship and will reconsider the Terps, he said yesterday. "A big issue for me was being away from my family," said Logan-El, who committed to Maryland as a high school sophomore but called an audible on National Signing Day in unforgettable fashion. " ... There were a lot of different variables.

On December 11, 2007; GEORGE G. LOGAN; beloved husband of Viola M. Logan On Tuesday friends may call at the VAUGHN C. Greene funeral services

NEW YORK -- Surreal was not the way that UMBC senior center Monica Logan wanted to end her career, but despite her 18 points, 10 rebounds and five steals, that's the way it ended. The Retrievers were outscored 10-1 over the final 4: 30 to lose 69-67 to Monmouth in a Northeast Conference quarterfinal at Wagner College's Spiro Center on Staten Island."This is very tough for me because all four years, we've lost in the first round in the tournament," Logan said. "This hurts about the most because the other three years, no one expected us to do anything and we proved it. This year, we had something to prove and I thought we had this game."

UMBC walked on its court last night with the nation's leading rebounder in Monica Logan and visions of pulling off an upset over longtime nemesis Mount St. Mary's.The Mount came out as the runaway leader in the Northeast Conference, armed with a high-profile coaching staff and the second-leading scorer in the conference in senior forward Megan Gardiner.Chalk up another victory for Mount St. Mary's, which is coached by former Mount standout Vanessa Blair and her first cousin Adrian Branch, who is third on Maryland's all-time men's scoring list and won an NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers.

It begins with an errant shot.Underneath the basket, Monica Logan will rise above the crowd of players to grab the ball. On long-range misses, the number 50 on the back of her jersey expands as her arms reach beyond those of her opponents.Fourteen times a game, the cycle ends with another earned possession by Logan, the nation's leading rebounder and the starting center for the UMBC women's basketball team.From near or from afar, she denies second-shot opportunities for the other team or creates them for UMBC.

" 'Sylvester and the Magic Pebble' is by William Steig. It is about a donkey named Sylvester who collects pebbles. He found a red pebble and a lion came and Sylvester wished he was a rock. It was good because it has a lot of details. I would recommend this book to all grandfathers because they like stories like 'Sylvester and the Magic Pebble.' "-- Brandon Mitchell, Running Brook Elementary"If you love reading your brother's or sister's diary and history, you'll love 'Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan' written by Mary Pope Osborne.

The cousin of an Annapolis man killed in January told an Anne Arundel County jury yesterday that he saw John Thomas Logan approach a taxicab and shoot Wayne Dwight Addison while Addison sat in the front passenger seat.Terry Johnson, who was also in the cab, said the two men briefly exchanged words before Logan pointed a .38-caliber gun at Addison while the cab was parked in front of Sanky's Groceries in Annapolis' Eastport neighborhood."He shot two times, but ain't nothing come out. He shot three more times," said Johnson, adding that the mortally wounded Addison then flopped into the empty driver's seat.

Vincent E. Dobson Jr. and Brandi Logan had talked of getting married. He dreamed of being a computer engineer. She was preparing for nursing school at Coppin State College. Relatives described a bright future for the young couple.Nothing, they said, foreshadowed a violent Saturday night when Dobson pulled up at Logan's house in Northwest Baltimore in a rented green Dodge Durango and told his girlfriend: "You know I love you."Logan answered "Yes," then was shot once in the chest, Brandi told her family.

Alicia Cady and her classmates at Logan Elementary School are going to have a tougher time than most fifth-graders adjusting to middle school in the fall."

In a compromise verdict, an Anne Arundel County jury convicted an Annapolis man of second-degree murder and handgun violations yesterday in the slaying of an acquaintance outside an Annapolis grocery.The defendant, John Thomas Logan, 22, of the Eastport Terrace community, could be given a maximum of 50 years in prison when he is sentenced Dec. 17.Attorneys said the jurors -- who deliberated nearly three hours Wednesday and seven hours yesterday -- told them that some panel members wanted to convict Logan of first-degree murder, some of second-degree and some of manslaughter, and reached the middle ground as a result.

A Baltimore County teenager was killed after veering off the ramp from southbound Interstate 83 to the Baltimore Beltway westbound near Lutherville, according to Maryland State Police. Kwest T. Logan, 17, of the 200 block of Lord Byron Lane in Cockeysville, was found dead about 10 a.m. Monday, shortly after police responded to a report of a possible vehicle in the woods near the exit ramp. A motorist called police after noticing light reflecting off the car while driving in slow-moving traffic this morning, police said.

Water gushed for hours Friday from a broken 6-foot-wide water main in Dundalk, flooding the communities of Turner Station, Logan Village and Water's Edge, swamping a shopping center, washing out a main road to the southeastern Baltimore County peninsula and stranding dozens inside and outside their homes. No injuries or deaths were immediately reported, but the Baltimore County Fire Department reported that two people were transported to the hospital with "minor complaints." Emergency crews used boats to rescue a few "people who went out in the water, which we asked them not to do," said Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith Jr. Dozens of homes were believed to have flooded basements, as water crested at heights reaching car door handles before flow stopped about 6:30 p.m., two hours after the pipe broke under a knoll between Dundalk Avenue and Broening Highway.

The problem:: A road needed repairs after a water main break in Pikesville. The back story:: Poor follow-through after a water main break in July grated on Tremella Logan's nerves - and the undercarriage of her car. Workers repaired the water main in the 1100 block of Scotts Hill Drive, but they failed to notice the leak had caused the roadway to bubble across the street, right in front of her driveway. "I just can't believe how they left the street," Logan said. "Whenever I back in or pull in, my car scrapes.

This Fourth of July why not celebrate in Boston, home of Faneuil Hall, the Paul Revere House and other historic sites along the Freedom Trail? Here are the cheapest fares we found from BWI to Logan Airport: $174 Air Tran Boston $222 USAirways Boston $222 Northwest Boston Restricted roundtrip fees as researched online Tuesday, the day before the Travel section goes to press. Fares are based on departing Friday and returning Sunday and may include Web specials. Fares change daily.

Kelly Macdonald, so memorable as the tragic victim of a psychotic assassin in No Country for Old Men, becomes another hit man's best friend in The Merry Gentleman. She should have quit while she was ahead. This attenuated urban mood piece is filled with Christian imagery and is also Communion wafer-thin. It stars Michael Keaton as morose professional killer Frank Logan. Office worker Kate Frazier (Macdonald) startles him out of suicide when she looks skyward to catch sight of the year's first snow and sees him teetering on a building ledge across the street.

Consignment shop Chesapeake Treasures, an upscale consignment and resale shop that benefits Hospice of the Chesapeake, has opened with newly stocked spring and summer merchandise. All clothing, with the exception of consignment and designer rack items, will be specially priced at $3 for tops and $5 for all bottom pieces. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and until 7 p.m. Thursdays. Chesapeake Treasures is in the Park Plaza Shopping Center on Ritchie Highway in Severna Park.

Baltimore police arrested the vice president of Baltimore's NAACP chapter Thursday afternoon after heroin and marijuana were recovered during a search of his car, though prosecutors declined to pursue charges. Police said Ellis L. Staten Jr., 44, who is also an executive committee member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Maryland conference, was in the driver's seat of a car that had stopped near Pennsylvania Avenue and Dolphin Street, which police say is a well-known drug market.

Western's girls basketball team considers this "championship week," because the No. 2 Doves need to beat No. 7 Digital Harbor and No. 4 City to win their division and go on to play for a fourth straight Baltimore City championship. One down, one to go. Last night, the host Doves used a 13-0 run early in the third quarter to fuel a 20-point lead and hold off Digital Harbor for a 58-51 victory. Keirah Hicks began the run with back-to-back three-pointers and Ashle Craig scored the next seven points to boost the lead to 37-21.

One summer night, Darryl Logan picked up the phone in his mother's house and called me. It took a lot for him to do that. He'd been using heroin for a long time. He'd squandered an education that had been given to him - a poor kid from Lanvale Street - at one of Baltimore's fine private schools. He'd dropped out of college and gone into "the life." Long before I knew him, Darryl Logan had become a hustler, selling dope on trash-strewn corners to support his habit. Asking for help was not easy for him. But that night in 2005, he asked.

Melba E. Logan, a retired Baltimore public school educator whose many kindnesses to a first-grader resulted in a six-decade friendship, died Sunday of complications from dementia at FutureCare Homewood. The longtime Northwest Baltimore resident was 83. Melba Elizabeth Rawlings was born in Baltimore and raised on Arlington Avenue. She was a 1942 graduate of Douglass High School and earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1946 from what was then Coppin Teachers College. "She wanted to attend graduate school at Johns Hopkins University, but when she went to the admissions office, [she]