Maddox

The number 2-9 -- Packers' record in past 11 games at Metrodome. The quote "You look at a guy who has busted his tail for 10 years to get into this position (and) for him to get hurt, it is tough." Steelers' Lee Flowers, on QB Tommy Maddox, who suffered a concussion and spinal cord contusion in loss to Titans.

There is no way Bea Gaddy is going to allow a convicted killer to work in her East Baltimore soup kitchen."I believe in capital punishment," said Ms. Gaddy, 53, who has been feeding the poor and homeless from her Collington Avenue kitchen about 10 years. "If you take a life, than your life should be taken from you."Ms. Gaddy said she was shocked when reporters called her yesterday and told her about her new employee: Shonte Davenport, 21. Davenport pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Andrea Maddox, 21, on Dec. 26.In a plea agreement, Judge Kenneth Lavon Johnson sentenced Davenport to 20 years Friday but suspended the sentence.

Anne Arundel County police have found the man they believe killed a gas station attendant in a botched robbery in 1993, but the suspect is dead.Police say Antoine Xavier Taylor, 21, of the 4500 block of Benning Road in Washington died last year in a shootout with an acquaintance near Landover Mall.His accomplice in the Dec. 17, 1993, slaying of Bruce William Maddox remains at large. Mr. Maddox, 58, was shot to death by one of two men who walked into an Exxon gas station where he worked in the first block of Defense Highway in Annapolis.

Baltimore County Police Officer William R. Goodman testified yesterday he didn't beat or hurl racial epithets at an Essex drug dealer last year, but said he tapped the man lightly on the cheeks at the time of the incident because he thought the man was intoxicated.And Goodman -- a 10-year police veteran on trial in Baltimore County Circuit Court charged with battery and with a hate crime -- acknowledged that he cursed at Melvin Maddox during the July 29, 1995 incident."Sometimes, ma'am, you have to lower yourself so they can understand you," he told Baltimore County Assistant State's Attorney Sue A. Schenning.

A mistrial was declared yesterday in the trial of William Randolph Goodman, a Baltimore County police officer accused of beating a black man and yelling racial slurs in Essex Precinct during a booking last year.The Baltimore County Circuit Court jurors, who deliberated for more than six hours Friday and met again yesterday, deadlocked on the charge of battery and never got the issue of whether a racial crime took place.Although prosecutors have not decided whether to retry Goodman, they have set aside time for a trial in December if they decide to take that step.

Quentin Maddox, serving a year in the County Detention Center on drug charges, called his mother on the phone Tuesday and begged her to bail out a man he had met only a few weeks before.The mother gave in, used a credit card to post the $1,000 bond and her 19-year-old son went to the prison to give the man a ride to Pasadena.The son, Marcus Maddox, never returned. He was found shot to death Wednesday evening in Quentin Maddox's Churchton home, a victim of what police describe as a bizarre slaying with plenty of twists -- butno motive.

A metal, clam-shell shovel crashed through the rotting deck of the derelict schooner, closed and pulled away the rotting debris.Splinter by splinter, the 60-foot boat, which had sunk in Anne Arundel's Rock Creek a year ago, was dismantled yesterday. Its final voyage to the Millersville landfill is slated for later this week.Bob Orem, an official with the state Department of Natural Resources who supervised the demolition, cringed a little every time the heavy shovel tore into the custom-built, handcrafted hull.

A 22-year-old woman was stabbed to death Thursday evening and a 15-year-old youth was shot and killed as the number of homicides in Baltimore this year hit 300.Lamont Wilkins, who was playing craps with two other people in a stairwell of the Lafayette Courts Apartments in the 100 block of Colvin Street, was shot several times by an unknown gunman about 9:30 p.m. Thursday. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he died at 11 p.m.Tony Johnson, 15, who also lives in the 100 block of Colvin Street, was shot in the left thigh and taken to University Medical Center.

INDIANAPOLIS -- There were times during Billy McCaffrey's sophomore year at Duke when many wondered whether he was ever going to be a front-line player.Some compared the slender guard from Allentown, Pa., to senior Greg Koubek, who after a terrific freshman season slumped until the middle of this season. But nobody is worrying about McCaffrey anymore.By making his first six shots last night against Kansas in the championship game of the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, McCaffrey shot the Blue Devils into a 14-point lead and eventually to a 72-65 victory.

Barbie was not the girl that Janice Amundson thought she'd be.For one thing, claims Amundson in a $200,000 federal lawsuit, the supposedly vintage doll worth $1,800 was nearly bald.Amundson, an avid Barbie collector from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, who has amassed more than 300 of the shapely plastic dolls, contends that a Maryland woman sold her the rare Barbie with chunks of its hair missing."When she opened the box that was delivered in the mail, she found that the doll's hair had gotten brittle and was falling out," said Joseph W. Hovermill, a Baltimore lawyer representing Amundson and her husband in the lawsuit.