Man Down

St. Mary's (7-3 overall and 4-0 in the Capital Athletic Conference) is riding a five-game winning streak. The Seahawks haven't dropped a game since March 14 when they wilted in a 7-6 decision to No. 8 Denison, but all three losses have occurred on the road. Stevenson, which is ranked sixth in the latest United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association poll, has won its last four contests. The Mustangs, who are 7-1 against their league rivals and have won the last six meetings, are 6-0 at home this season.

A 48-year-old store clerk was shot and killed early Monday during an apparent robbery attempt at a 7-Eleven store in Glen Burnie, police reported. The victim, Youssef Kamal Erian Attia, was gunned down as he tried to flee from three men who had entered the store and announced a robbery, according to an account issued by the Anne Arundel County Police Department. Officers were summoned to the convenience store on the 7700 block of Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard at about 3:30 a.m. in response to a report of a sick or injured person.

When 19-month-old Kaeley Walz starts stringing words together into coherent sentences, her father, Jeff, the now former Maryland women's basketball associate head coach, hopes the first one will be specific to his new job. "My wife is working hard to get our 19-month-old to say `Go Cards,' before she comes out," Walz said yesterday afternoon at a press conference to introduce him as head women's coach at Louisville. Walz, 35, was introduced at Louisville, located 80 minutes from his hometown of Fort Thomas, Ky. The Maryland players were gathered early yesterday and told of Walz's departure.

Traffic was backed up for hours yesterday along Interstate 95 near the Maryland-Delaware border after a vehicle collision that killed a man south of the Newark Toll Plaza in Delaware, according to authorities. The northbound lanes of I-95 were shut down for more than four hours after the collision at 9 a.m., and the southbound side was closed for about an hour, said Cpl. Helen Zane, a Delaware State Police spokeswoman. Traffic was backed up for about 10 miles on the Maryland side of the interstate, Maryland State Police said.

When police and other city agencies flooded a West Baltimore neighborhood earlier this week as part of "Operation Safe Zone," weary residents were relieved to see their presence in an area infested with drugs and shootings. Yesterday afternoon at 4:15, however, during a lull in police activity in Mondawmin, a man was gunned down near North Pulaski Street and Walbrook Avenue, one block away from the nucleus of the safe zone. Police recovered at least 17 shell casings at the scene, marked by a blood-soaked sidewalk next to the Straightway United Church of God. Residents said they heard a flurry of loud, repetitive gunshots, shattering the calm of a warm and bright afternoon.

Bryan Antoine Adams Jr. was walking along a busy street, in the middle of the day, in the heart of Columbia's oldest village. He took a phone call, a friend would later say, and said he'd be over soon to hang out. "I called his phone back," said the friend, Tanya Smith, "and didn't get an answer." Adams, a 20-year-old Columbia resident, was gunned down shortly before 11:30 a.m. yesterday on a sidewalk near the Wilde Lake village center. The Columbia man was rushed to Howard County General Hospital and he later died.

William J. Rowan loves to talk turkey. He also lives to hunt them.So it was a bit of shock to his hunting buddies earlier this month when Bill Rowan didn't show up at his Western Maryland hunting trailer for the fall wild turkey season. Instead, he spent that week as a volunteer helping two flocks of the wild birdssurvive their first winter in the Sweet Air section of Gunpowder Falls State Park."It was the first turkey season I've missed in eight years," Mr. Rowan said.The wooded terrain between Sweet Air Road and the Little Gunpowder Falls is only the second area in Baltimore County where wild turkey flocks -- which had largely vanished by the turn of the century as land was cleared for agriculture -- have been reintroduced.

A week before their prime-time showdown with Peyton Manning, the Ravens unmercifully shook his family tree. Unleashing a punishing pass rush on his younger brother, the Ravens rocked rookie quarterback Eli Manning to rout the New York Giants, 37-14, yesterday before 69,856 at M&T Bank Stadium. In an effort that elicited feelings of redemption and renewed confidence, the Ravens' defense tormented Manning into making half of his team's six turnovers, which tied a Ravens record and paved the way for 20 points yesterday.

`Prosecutors said they had the car that brought the shooter to the killing, they had the four people who were in it, and they had the weapon. But Anne Arundel County prosecutors said they could not prove who in that Hyundai Accent fatally shot Damion Andre McCrary in a Glen Burnie parking lot on Sept. 4, 2008. On Tuesday, a Severn teenager pleaded guilty to wiping down the just-fired Ruger .357 revolver, making him the second person to acknowledge a minor role in a killing that prosecutors said was rooted in gang activity.