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Man is wounded in Severn shooting A man was shot yesterday in Severn, and Anne Arundel County police are asking the public's help in gaining more information about the incident. About 12:10 a.m., officers responded to the 8200 block of Marlton Court for a report of a shooting. A wounded man told officers that he saw two vehicles parked nearby, one of which he said was an orange-and-blue, late-model Chevrolet Caprice or Ford Crown Victoria, police said. The man didn't have a description of the second vehicle.

Seton Keough's Meghann Donovan, Joppatowne's Brandi Barnes and Poly's Lindsay Willemain have been chosen to play in the Pennsylvania Maryland Women's Basketball Shootout on April 13 in Harrisburg, Pa.This is the first of what organizers plan as an annual event pitting Maryland's top seniors against Pennsylvania's. Other area players on the roster are Severna Park's Jennifer Holmes, Hammond's Kellye Townsend, Arundel's Jen Mottar and Meade's Shalisa Johnson. Barnes (Maryland) and Holmes (Vanderbilt)

Martha V. Green, a retired telephone operator and day care worker, died of heart failure Nov. 24 at Franklin Square Medical Center. She was 80. The former Martha Virginia McDaniel was born in Baltimore and raised in Essex, Overlea and Towson, where she was a 1944 graduate of the old Carver High School. She worked as a dietitian in New York City in the late 1940s, and after returning to Baltimore, worked at the Enoch Pratt Free Library. From 1968 until retiring in 1990, she was a long-distance operator for Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. and successor company Bell Atlantic-Maryland.

I am writing on behalf of the Lansdowne Improvement Association, Inc. regarding a petition submitted by applicants Robert Maith and Seung Chul Yang regarding Renee's Lounge at 3911 Hollins Ferry Road. The abovementioned applicants are requesting a change of liquor license classification from Class B (restaurant) to Class D (tavern - beer, wine and liquor). LIA leadership is adamantly opposed to this change. Throughout Baltimore County, it is generally expected that liquor licensees shall operate their establishments in such a manner as to avoid disturbing the peace, tranquillity, safety, health and quiet of the neighborhood.

Katina McCullom and Sandra Justice are first. It isn't a matter of who they are or what they did. They're first because on a December night, they're working the front desk of the Red Roof Inn in Jessup. And as these things go, someone has to be first.The gunmen -- one tall and thin, the other shorter and solid -- storm in, flash weapons, rip the phone from its socket and flee with $295. The men hide their faces with bandannas and their car around the rear of the Route 1 motel.Kenneth McGlynn is the duty detective when the phone rings.

William WatsonLever Bros. retireeWilliam Watson, a retired assistant foreman for Lever Bros., died Friday of cancer at his home on North Payson Street.Mr. Watson, who was 76 and known to his family and friends as Bob, retired in 1981 after working at the Lever Bros. soap plant in East Baltimore for 39 years.Earlier he had worked as a baker, cake decorator and ice cream maker at Riegel's Bakery on Laurens Street.A native of the Cheraw, S.C., area, he moved to Baltimore as a youth.He was president of his 1936 graduating class at the Carver Vocational Technical High School and later also became a graduate of the Douglass Evening High School.

Poly coach Charlie Sullivan and Northwestern coach Lillian Brown have both remarked about their teams' lack of competition in Baltimore City.They helped to remedy that situation yesterday by pitting their teams against each other, and neither coach was unsatisfied.Previously unbeaten Northwestern pushed No. 11 Poly to the limit before the host Engineers prevailed, 53-50, in a matchup of the top two teams in the Baltimore City West League.With the victory, Poly (9-2, 3-0) claimed sole possession of first place in the division.

Sitting side by side along the Jones Falls Expressway, Poly and Western share many things, including athletic fields and parking lots.Basketball tradition, however, has always been an area that Western has kept to itself.Entering last night's City Girls Championship game, the Doves had never lost to their neighbors in 16 years of competition.That's what made No. 14 Poly's 48-40 win before an overflow crowd at No. 17 Western so special to Engineers center Lindsay Willemain."We've lost to them by probably a 60-point margin every time we've played them since I was in the ninth grade," said Willemain.

Janika Conley scored 20 points to lead third-ranked Lake Clifton (15-2) to a victory over host Walbrook, 55-51, in a 4A City league girls basketball game yesterday. Natisha Ferguson added 13 points.Danielle Turner scored 21 points for the Warriors (7-10). The Lakers missed 13 of 24 free throws.* Western 70, Southwestern 28: Chanel Wright scored 22 to pace top-ranked Western past host Southwestern. Shayla Parker led Southwestern with 13.Western (21-0) took an early 23-4 lead en route to the win.* Arundel 67, Glen Burnie 25: Junior forward Chavonne Hammond scored 21 points to lead No. 8 Arundel (20-0)

Senior forward Leketia Mullen scored 12 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to help No. 10 Southern of Anne Arundel County rout host Surrattsville, 50-13, yesterday.Senior center Lisa Biederman added 11 points for the Bulldogs (2-0), who led 24-5 at halftime.Surrattsville fell to 0-2.* Mount Hebron 48, Strath Haven 39: Senior forward Rachel Cimmier led No. 3 Mount Hebron with 18 points and 14 rebounds as the Vikings (2-0) defeated host Strath Haven in the opening round of the Strath Haven Invitational in Media, Pa.* Towson 65, Loch Raven 47: Jessica Owens and Kary Koch each scored 19 points as No. 13 Towson defeated host Loch Raven (0-2)