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Sophomore Chrissy Lombard (Mount Hebron) scored a game-high seven goals and added two assists to power Boston University past host Towson, 15-3, in an America East women's lacrosse game last night.Amy Buck (Mount de Sales) led the Tigers (3-9, 2-2) with a pair of goals. Buck gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead in the first minute. But a minute later, Kristen Abruzzese evened the score. The Terriers (11-2, 4-0) scored the next five goals en route to the win.Kyle Rutkowski (Mount Hebron) recorded a hat trick and Ericka Hergenroeder (Severna Park)

For a brief time yesterday afternoon, a gritty area east of the Inner Harbor was transformed back to what it was around the turn of the century -- a bustling Jewish community where thousands of immigrants started life anew in America.The agent of the transformation was Baltimore actress Carol Cohen, who asked participants on a "living history walking tour" to see the neighborhood through the eyes of Bessie Tomashefsky, a great Yiddish actress who lived there at the time.The hourlong tours, presented by the Jewish Museum of Maryland and sponsored by the Kolker-Saxon-Hallock Family Foundation, have been a big hit. Yesterday was supposed to be the last day for them, but museum officials said the tours may be revived in April or May.Dressed in period garb, Cohen, as Tomashefsky, talked about life as it was in 1915 in the vibrant Jewish community that existed along East Baltimore and East Lombard streets between Central Avenue and President Street.

For Mount Hebron, the sequel didn't live up to the original. For Centennial, it was much better the second time around. But still, for Mount Hebron vs. Centennial Part II, the result was the same: a Mount Hebron victory, this time by 13-2.The Vikings had beaten Centennial by 16 goals Monday to win the county title. Yesterday, the teams met again at Centennial in a Class 3A-4A West region opener, and early on, Centennial was the aggressor, taking it right to the third-ranked Vikings.But Mount Hebron's superior skills eventually proved too much, and the Vikings advanced.

As a girl, Jean Cook used to play around -- and occasionally inside -- the building at Haven and Lombard streets in East Baltimore. The cavernous structure was a giant garage for the streetcars that traveled the avenues of the city, the 27-ton, 42-foot-long cars of the electrified No. 26 Line.Cook grew up in Highlandtown, and the big building was a local landmark, opened in the summer of 1908. But it lost its luster in the late 1950s when service on the streetcar line was discontinued. In the decades that followed, it was used as a warehouse.

THE UNIVERSITY of Maryland at Baltimore, which has drawn praise in the past for its efforts to preserve and recycle old buildings on campus, is drawing criticism this year for a plan to raze three historically significant structures to make way for development.University officials notified the Maryland Historical Trust in April that they want to tear down the state-owned buildings at 513, 515 and 517 W. Lombard St. They have since begun to empty the buildings in preparation for demolition.

The Baltimore City Middle School Lacrosse League simply wouldn't be the same without Lombard in the championship game.Coached by former Morgan State athlete Joe Fowlkes, Lombard has reached the final every year in the league's six-year existence. And for the fourth time, Lombard won, defeating Pimlico, 4-2, yesterday in the opening game of the 12th annual Hall of Fame Lacrosse Classic at Homewood Field.Robert Cheeks scored two goals and Gary Brown and Myron Saunders had one apiece as Lombard built a 4-0 first-half lead and rolled to a successful defense of its championship.

HOLLYWOOD -- It has been 60 years since actress Carole Lombard rented a two-story French Provincial house on Hollywood Boulevard, threw wild parties and fell in love with Clark Gable. It has been 51 years since the vivacious blond comedian -- by that point a resident of suburban Encino -- died in a fiery airplane crash near Las Vegas, Nev.But when it comes to selling real estate, especially Los Angeles real estate, no span of time is lengthy enough to dissociate a house from a celebrity occupant.

Lombard captured its third Baltimore City Middle School Lacrosse League championship in five years in the opening game of the Hall of Fame Lacrosse Classic yesterday at Johns Hopkins' Homewood Field.Lombard, which finished its season 13-0, got three goals each from Joe Keeling and Charles Williams in an 11-1 romp over Harlem Park (11-1-1). Only John Robinson solved Lombard goalie Michael Brown.Joe Fowlkes, a former Morgan State football and lacrosse player who was in the 1981 Colts' training camp, has coached Lombard all five years of its existence.

1 dead, 3 wounded in series of shootingsOne man was fatally shot, two others were critically wounded and a fourth was in stable condition following a series of shootings yesterday, police said.In the fatal shooting, Charles Smith, 25, of the 100 block of Aisquith St., and Reginald McKeever, 25, of the 1300 block of E. Fayette St., were shot about 2:35 p.m. by one of two men they were talking to in the 200 block of N. Spring Court in the Douglass Homes housing project.Mr. Smith died at 3:14 p.m. at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

Neill Russell remembers the advice his father once offered about notcounting your chickens before they hatch.Not exactly the philosophy of Confucius, but close enough for a coach whose team is the prohibitive favorite entering today's boys gymnastics county meet at Annapolis.Still, while the third-year Annapolis coach expects a hotly contested chase, he admits that when healthy, his Panthers must be given the edge.And the Panthers are healthy again with the return of junior Jason Hill, who recently was sidelined with a leg injury, but will see limited duty this afternoon.

Workers completed subsurface repairs Tuesday on the stretch of East Lombard Street closed by a water main break last week, clearing the way for a possible reopening of the vital downtown artery as early as Thursday. Adrienne Barnes, a spokeswoman for the city Department of Transportation, said workers were starting to backfill the roadway between Commerce and President streets with sand, gravel and stone. Also being repaired was South Gay Street between Pratt and Water streets. The next step will be to repave the affected blocks - a job that could be completed in a day if the weather is warm and sunny.

Work will continue through the weekend to repair Lombard Street at Gay Street after a water main broke Tuesday morning. Public works officials decided to install a longer section of pipe - 50 feet - to overcome problems with a leaking clamp Thursday, spokesman Kurt Kocher said. The installation was expected to be completed by Friday night, and then utilities need to make their own repairs to affected equipment. Then the city Department of Transportation would begin to repair and resurface the roadway.

The city's Department of Transportation has extended the closure of Howard Street between Lombard and Conway Streets until next Thursday. City workers are rebuilding the intersection near where Interstate 395 ends at the Camden Yards baseball stadium. Officials are encouraging motorists to use Sharp Street before the closure of Howard Street or take Lombard Street to southbound Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard as an alternative to I-395.

Andy Lombard and Sid Leever are the yin and yang of the wireless e-mail generation. Lombard, chief executive officer of a Dallas telecom company, is a hard-charging corporate type for whom e-mail is a must. Leever, a principal at an Irving, Calif., pre-media and creative services firm, needs to see his e-mail frequently, but not incessantly. Lombard carries a BlackBerry phone from Research in Motion Ltd. Leever has a Treo 600 from palmOne Inc. Even as manufacturers stumble over themselves to introduce smart phones, the market for devices that artfully handle e-mail boils down to these two devices, experts and users say. Both have amassed followings that are rapidly growing.

On June 10, 2003, THOMAS E. LOMBARD "Tom", beloved father of Nicole L. Lombard and devoted son of retired Col. Harold F. and Adele B. Lombard, brother to Ted, Rick, and Pete Lombard, long time companion of Toni A. Keister and children. A Memorial Service will be held at the Connelly Funeral Home of Essex, 300 Mace Ave., on Saturday at 12:30 P.M. Visiting hours on Saturday from 10-1 P.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions to The American Cancer Society, 452 E. King St., Chambersburg, PA. 17201.

Eighth-grader Janay Castle has taken the practice Maryland Functional Math Test at least four times on this day from her seat in the computer lab at Baltimore's Lombard Middle School. Twice, she passed. Twice, she didn't. Now, she has decided to take the exam once more -- this time, for real. "You sure?" asks Michael Smith, one of two eighth-grade math teachers at Lombard who have been spearheading an end-of-year push to raise the pass rate on the mandatory state exam. "I'm not trying to make you nervous."

It would feel like an act of disloyalty to teach anywhere else. Angie Gillespie was part of Baltimore's Lombard Middle School long before she started getting paychecks in 1993. She tagged along to proms at the east-side school when it was still a junior high and light-blue suits were in style. She attended end-of-year fairs in the field across the street, where she'd eat cotton candy and suck on lemons with peppermint sticks. She trotted through what seemed then like unbearably long corridors, calling a couple of the teachers "Aunt" So-and-So, even though they were no relation.

There was no ribbon to cut, but smiling city officials did the next best thing yesterday: dragging away a barrier from the junction of Howard and Lombard streets to show that the key downtown crossing was back in service. Traffic flowed freely again for the first time since a water main broke seven weeks earlier and caused $1.5 million in damage to the intersection. Such was the celebratory mood that Mayor Martin O'Malley, who does not usually attend street openings, was on hand. After police motorcycles escorted a firetruck and city vehicles over the new pavement, motorists got their turn about 7:15 a.m. But light rail is not expected to resume on Howard until Sunday at the earliest, in time for the Ravens home opener, said Mass Transit Administration spokeswoman Suzanne Bond.

A man driving a stolen car crashed into a tractor-trailer yesterday afternoon in downtown Baltimore, causing about 90 gallons of diesel fuel to spill on the roadway, police said. The accident and cleanup of the spill also further delayed traffic disrupted by repairs at Howard and Lombard streets, several blocks west, where a water main broke July 18. Police said the incident began about 1:30 p.m. when an officer in an unmarked car saw the stolen Toyota Avalon at North Avenue and Asquith Street and followed it. At Gay and Fayette streets, a uniformed officer tried to stop the car, and the driver "tried to run the officer over," said Ragina C. Averella, a police spokeswoman.

Sophomore Chrissy Lombard (Mount Hebron) scored a game-high seven goals and added two assists to power Boston University past host Towson, 15-3, in an America East women's lacrosse game last night.Amy Buck (Mount de Sales) led the Tigers (3-9, 2-2) with a pair of goals. Buck gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead in the first minute. But a minute later, Kristen Abruzzese evened the score. The Terriers (11-2, 4-0) scored the next five goals en route to the win.Kyle Rutkowski (Mount Hebron) recorded a hat trick and Ericka Hergenroeder (Severna Park)