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Baltimore Del. Maggie L. McIntosh was named yesterday to lead a powerful committee, giving the city a second chairmanship in the House of Delegates despite its reduced representation in the General Assembly. The promotion of McIntosh, who had been majority leader, is part of a significant reorganization of the House Democratic leadership engineered by the incoming speaker, Del. Michael E. Busch of Annapolis. McIntosh, who has served in the House since 1992, will lead the House Environmental Matters Committee - the panel that reviews legislation affecting the health of the Chesapeake Bay. She joins Appropriations Committee Chairman Howard P. Rawlings as Baltimore delegates who will lead standing committees.

Del. Maggie L. McIntosh is fighting for her political life, and she hopes to save it by knocking on 20,000 doors before the Sept. 10 primary. McIntosh's re-election would have been a virtual slam dunk before the state Court of Appeals redrew the political map. She is majority leader of the House of Delegates and has represented Northwest Baltimore for 10 years. But after June 21, she found herself in the 43rd District, which takes in a swath of Northeast Baltimore between Charles Street and Harford Road and runs down York Road to North and Greenmount avenues.

MARBURY - A total of 210 professional bass anglers kicked off the new season at 6 a.m. yesterday on the Potomac River in the BASSMASTER Northern Open. It felt more like a morning in fall than early August, with fishermen bundled against the pre-dawn chill and full-throttle run from Charles County's Smallwood State Park to the river. Ken McIntosh, coming off an 18-month sabbatical from the tour, is in first place, with a five-fish limit of 15 pounds. The pro from Pierceton, Ind., is working a 50-yard stretch up river, pitching a jig in 10-15 feet of water.

Ross McIntosh, the reigning Virginia State Amateur champion from Lorton, shot two-day rounds of 68-75-143 at Blue Mash and Waverly Woods, respectively, and won the medal in sectional qualifying for the U.S. Amateur Public Links championship yesterday. It took seven holes of sudden death to determine the other qualifier, with Tim Elliott of Glen Arm winning the marathon with a par to a bogey for Phillip Fenstermaker, from Derwood. In regulation, Elliott posted 73-72-145, and Fenstermaker, 71-74-145.

Del. Maggie L. McIntosh said yesterday that she and other lawmakers would work with activists and community groups to ensure that a charter amendment to shrink the size of the City Council would be on Baltimore's ballot in November. While state lawmakers could force the issue in Annapolis with a bill to amend the Maryland Constitution, McIntosh said that she and her colleagues are opting for an easier tack this year. "There are a number of organizations working on a referendum," said McIntosh, a Baltimore Democrat who is majority leader of the House of Delegates.

An influential Baltimore legislator wants to move the city's mayoral election to coincide with state races, a proposal that is gaining support in both chambers of the General Assembly. Del. Maggie L. McIntosh, the House majority leader, said she intends to amend the city's election bill that would set the primary and general elections for mayor and City Council for 2004. Under McIntosh's proposal, beginning in 2006, candidates for city offices would run in the same years as candidates for state offices, which would give city candidates elected in 2004 a two-year term.

A former Baltimore police officer was found not liable yesterday in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit alleging assault and battery, unlawful seizure and violating the due process rights of a Pikesville man he fatally shot in 1998. Shane C. Stufft, 29, now a patrol officer for Baltimore County police, fatally shot Derek Robert McIntosh, 25, on Jan. 13, 1998. McIntosh was shot once in the chest and once in the neck in a scuffle as Stufft attempted to arrest him on a narcotics charge. The six-woman city Circuit Court jury deliberated for slightly more than 4 1/2 hours.

In Baltimore City Two teen cousins shot, one fatally, outside their home Two teen-age cousins were shot, one of them fatally, yesterday evening as they were about to enter their home in the Rosemont section of West Baltimore. The victims, Sherod Bryant, 14, and Derrick Bennett, 16, had been to a carryout and were nearing their rowhouse in the 1500 block of N. Ellamont St. about 8:35 p.m. when a gunman approached and shot each of them at least once, police said. Sherod died a short time later at Bon Secours Hospital, while Derrick was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

An influential Baltimore lawmaker threatened yesterday to kill a bill to change the date of the city's primary election unless city officials agree to "substantially" reduce the size of the City Council. Del. Maggie L. McIntosh, House of Delegates majority leader, said that though city officials say they need the election bill as a tool to increase voter turnout and save money, she doesn't think it will help with either. "I think it is a hoax, just to ask this committee to put the primary when you want it," McIntosh said during a hearing before the House Commerce and Government Matters Committee.

A statement by a former Baltimore police officer, made a month after he fatally shot a Pikesville man, differs from his testimony this week on the incident. Asked yesterday by attorney A. Dwight Pettit to read aloud a Feb. 26, 1998, account he gave police, Shane C. Stufft, 29, said nothing about Derek Robert McIntosh's having been on his back. Stufft testified Tuesday that McIntosh, whom Stufft shot once in the chest and once in the neck Jan. 13, 1998, had jumped on his back during a struggle and was trying to grab his gun from its holster.