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For six straight football seasons, the Franklins and Marshes have carried the running burden for Perry Hall High School.Since the Gators became a power with an 8-2 record in 1988 and Vernon Franklin at fullback, one family (and sometimes both) has contributed heavily to the team's crunching ground game.The tradition will end after this year when fullback Mark Franklin and tailback Mandel Marsh are graduated, but for now, the youngest of the brothers continue to punish Baltimore County opponents.

We financial blowhards have been proclaiming forever that Detroit automakers had to end business as usual. "The need for fundamental shifts in operating procedures is painfully obvious," said Business Week. That was in 1982. It wasn't obvious to General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. Let's hope we're right this time. Big Three carmakers are facing their umpteenth crisis since the 1970s because they repeat a 1970s mistake: selling wasteful, giant vehicles in a time of high energy prices. As impending bailouts herald another new era for Detroit, as the Obama team talks energy independence, as the nation prepares to address climate change, American carmakers must finally, irrevocably embrace the future.

Perry Hall coach Joe Stoy may have Debra Marsh to thank for this one. Her son, Mandel, rushed for the 148 yards and a touchdown and had an interception to set up another score as No. 12 Perry Hall upset No. 6 South River, 26-7, yesterday.A knee injury forced Marsh, a junior, to the bench for the entire second half of last week's 2-0 upset of then-No. 3 Woodlawn.But thanks to some tender loving care from his mother all week, the 5-foot-8, 156-pounder showcased his speed before Perry Hall's boisterous Homecoming crowd.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Despite an injury in her upper right leg, Gwen Torrence won the 100-meter race of the USA/Mobil Outdoor Track and Field championships last night at Hughes Stadium.Torrence won easily, taking the lead midway through the race and finishing in 11.04 seconds. Carlette Guidry was second in 11.12 and Celena Mondie-Milner third in 11.22 in only the second sunny day of the meet.Nearly 10 minutes later, Mike Marsh won the men's 100-meter race, edging Maurice Greene and Dennis Mitchell at the line.

A bright and bouncy production of the spirited soft-rock musical, "Godspell," is on stage at the White Marsh Dinner Theatre.Directed with smart theatrical flair by Lewis Lebrun, this entertaining contemporary re-telling of the Gospel according to St. Matthew is presented through 15 songs that highlight the main events in the life of Jesus Christ -- from baptism to the joyful "spreading of the word" among the masses to the moving Crucifixion finale.Performed...

It was the night we ate a marsh. There were 60 of us Everybody was dressed up in tuxedos and gowns.We went to Rudy's 2900 restaurant in Carroll County, sipped vintage wine and ate -- Are you ready for this? -- cattail shoots. That's right -- those plants that grow in marshes. Chef Rudy Speckamp, a chef who makes food assume unconventional forms -- he has been known to transform fish into sausages -- made cattails a spring vegetable.And a fine-tasting vegetable it was. Rudy sliced the spring cattails into slivers, fried them quickly in peanut oil, and served them.

Guy Gordon Marsh, in prison again after serving 14 years on a murder conviction that was overturned, was expected today to ask a Carroll judge to free him so he can take care of his wife and children."

When Dawn Marie Romano Garvin's father found her slain in her White Marsh apartment, she was lying nude on her bed, clutching a teddy bear.Her killer apparently had raped her and sexually assaulted her again before shooting her twice in the head.Garvin was killed Nov. 2, 1987. She was just 20 years old and four months into her marriage to her high school sweetheart, Keith Garvin.Yesterday would have been her 24th birthday.Instead, it was the first full day of trial for Steven H. Oken, the man accused of raping and killing Garvin.

Up to the very end, Judy Marsh kept smiling. She went Christmas shopping for her grandchildren and bought gifts for her friends.Even when doctors at University Medical Center told her last Thursday she would not live another 24 hours, the 50-year-old Pasadena resident had each of her family members come in for a talk. Then she took medication that would help her sleep.Marsh never woke up. The woman who had battled Blue Cross/Blue Shield for more than a year to pay for a controversial cancer treatmentdied in her sleep with her family by her side.

State planners are expected to present for the first time tonight specific plans on what to do with Black Marsh, a 1,310-acre area of unspoiled forest, beach and marsh in eastern Baltimore County.Robert L. Beckett, director of Land Planning Services for the Department of Natural Resources, said the presentation would show where certain buildings, trails and parking spaces might be located.Months ago the state put forth a "concept plan" that includes a nature center, nature trails, day-boating slips, a beachfront boardwalk, a restaurant and an amphitheater.