Manchester Road

A 17-year-old girl was in critical but stable condition yesterday after she was injured in a car accident early Monday on Gorsuch Road outside Westminster, authorities said.Vicki N. Bonsall of the 700 block of Tailings Drive was flown by state MedEvac helicopter to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore after the 12: 01 a.m. accident.According to police, she was traveling south on Gorsuch Road, south of Shiloh Road, when she lost control of her 1993 Mazda along a curve, struck an embankment and overturned.

An armed pickup truck driver who held off police and caused traffic detours between Hampstead and Westminster for about five hours yesterday remained in police custody last night, authorities said. The incident began about 5:30 a.m. in western Baltimore County, when a woman called the police to report her ex-husband was outside her home in the 400 block of Valley Meadow Circle near Glyndon, said county police spokesman Bill Toohey. The woman said the man was known to have a gun, he said.

An unbelted teenager thrown from a car has become the third fatality from a collision that killed two Manchester women last week, state police said yesterday. Anthony Norman Thomas, 14, of Manchester died at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore last weekend, state troopers at the Westminster barracks said. Police said Thomas was one of two teenagers sitting in the front seat of a 1987 Chevrolet Corvette driven by Kathleen McIntyre, 46. McIntyre's 16-year-old daughter, Christina, also was in the front seat.

A Manchester woman and her niece were killed Wednesday night after their vehicle and another collided on Route 27 south of Route 30, Maryland State Police said yesterday. Shirley Bosley, 70, and Tammy Reindollar, 34, both of the 2800 block of Manchester Road, died after Bosley attempted to turn left into a driveway at 9:47 p.m. while traveling north on Route 27. Bosley's 1997 Subaru Legacy station wagon hit a 1987 Corvette driven by Kathleen McIntyre, 46, who was traveling south on Route 27. McIntyre, of the 3200 block of Manchester Road, was traveling with two male teens, 16 and 14. The older of the two was McIntyre's son. No one in the Corvette was wearing seatbelts, police said.

POLICE* Westminster: A resident of East Main Street reported someone broke into his house and stole property valued at $90 July 6.An official of Dream Machine in Cranberry Mall reported someone broke into one of their machines and stole $61 Tuesday.FIRE* Patapsco: Hampstead investigated the report of wires on fire in trees at Carrollton and Lees Mill roads at 8:50 a.m. Tuesday. They were out 27 minutes.* Westminster: Westminster was dispatched to a portable toilet on fire on Glen Oak Court at 7:19 p.m. Tuesday.

A team of forensic experts plans to begin combing today a wooded area southwest of Manchester, where a homeowner digging fill dirt in his woods Sunday evening uncovered a suspected human leg bone and a buried, decaying work boot, state police said. The remains have not been determined to be human and thus cannot be dated, beyond saying they are old, Major Greg Shipley, state police spokesman said yesterday. Lt. Terry L. Katz, commander of the Westminster barracks, who was on the scene Sunday night after the bone was discovered, said the remains could be about 10 years old, judging from the condition of the boot.

An apparently accidental shooting, resulted in the death of a 21-year-old Westminster man, state police reported yesterday. The shooting occurred about 3 p.m. Sunday in a heavily wooded area along Blue Heron Drive off Old Manchester Road, police said.Scott Edward Malinowski was shot in the upper abdomen with a .22-caliber long rifle slug when a friend's weapon discharged while the men were target shooting in a woods east of Route 27, troopers said. John Hall Jr., 20, of Hampstead was loading his rifle when the weapon discharged, police said.

A 47-year-old Manchester woman has been released on bail from the Carroll County Detention Center on more than a dozen charges stemming from a high-speed accident in May in Manchester that killed three people, officials said yesterday. Kathleen Jean McIntyre of the 3200 block of Manchester Road was driving her 1987 Chevrolet Corvette south on Route 27 near Route 30 in Manchester on May 19, allegedly while under the influence of alcohol, according to documents filed this month in Carroll Circuit Court.

A 47-year-old Manchester woman has been released on bail from the Carroll County Detention Center on more than a dozen charges stemming from a high-speed accident in May in Manchester that killed three people, officials said yesterday. Kathleen Jean McIntyre of the 3200 block of Manchester Road was driving her 1987 Chevrolet Corvette south on Route 27 near Route 30 in Manchester on May 19 while under the influence of alcohol, according to documents filed this month in Carroll Circuit Court.

In creating its new historical program, "Roads to Gettysburg," Carroll County's tourism office is employing a variation on the saying, "All roads lead to Rome." With the help of volunteers, the office has created a guide and brochure for a driving tour that retraces the route of thousands of Confederate and Union troops through Carroll to Gettysburg, Pa.Route 97 may not be the Appian Way, but the guide reveals that many of the county's roads were indeed well traveled by soldiers and played a significant role in the prelude to that epic Civil War battle.