Meade Village

Two good Samaritans were threatened at gunpoint Sunday as they tried to catch a man who had threatened to abduct a woman and a 14-year-old girl, county police said.The woman told police she and the girl were walking to a McDonald's on Route 198 shortly after 11 p.m. when a man pulled up in a maroon Dodge minivan and told them, "You don't know me, but if I take you in those bushes you will."The woman and girl continued toward the restaurant and the man parked his van and began to follow them on foot, police said.

An Annapolis man was charged with assault with intent to murder, andpolice were searching for two other men, after a 19-year-old man wasshot and seriously wounded early yesterday in Severn.Police saidJeremiah Wanamaker, 19, of Washington was using a pay phone in the 1800 block of Richfield Drive in Severn at 4:30 a.m. yesterday when hewas approached by three men, two of them armed.Wanamaker was shot several times in the lower parts of his body, police said. He was taken to North Arundel Hospital by friends who were in a car parked nearby at the time of the shooting, police said.

On a sunny afternoon last week, Meade Village blossomed to life. Childrenplayed tag between the low-rise apartment buildings. Teen-agers hungout in the parking lot, a mother chased after her toddler, and Cheryl Harold took a hard look at her lawn.The spring fever was contagious, drawing more and more people outside. Harold stopped to chat with a few neighbors, but she was constantly on the go -- meeting with the new, on-site housing manager and talking to the police officers patrolling the streets.

A Randallstown teenager who admitted his role in the murder of a pizza deliveryman in Severn was sentenced Thursday to serve 18 years in prison. Darrius Lynne Bullock, 19, apologized as he stood before Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Paul F. Harris Jr. Bullock told police he helped plan the robbery in December and beat Ghulam Farooq, but did not know that his cousin, Tavon Brown, also 19, was going to stab Farooq after they took less than...

With drug dealers prowling the halls and taking over empty apartments at Meade Village and Freetown, housing officials figure a few police officers would make good neighbors.The county Housing Authority, hoping to combat rising violence and drug-related crime, wants to recruit police officers to live in its projects for low-income families."It just strikes me that it would make an awful lot of sense to have police cars parked there and uniformed officers living there," said Charles St. Lawrence, chairman of the governing board, who made the proposal Thursday night.

A small group of women from Freetown and Meade Village started learning about day care four months ago, determined to start their own businesses, but unsure of what to do.One lady rarely left her own home.Another was incredibly shy.Another was trying to complete an autobiography and searching for a good way to end her book.Yesterday, the seven women completed the first step toward becoming entrepreneurs, through a county program run by the Department of Social Services. By the end of November, they will be running child-care centers out of their homes.

The teen-ager charged with trying to kill her newborn baby by throwing her from a third-floor window was released from jail on her own recognizance yesterday to reside with her sister while she awaits trial.Anne Arundel County District Judge Martha Rasin ordered Michelle Elizabeth Savage, 17, to stay at her sister's Meade Village townhouse rather than return to their mother's apartment around the corner, because the apartment has no telephone.Ms. Savage, charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder and child abuse, is not to leave the residence in the 1800 block of Meade Village Circle except for school and visits to her lawyer and doctors.

Opening Day for Phil Wallace was not a baseball game at Camden Yards in Baltimore. It was a bus ride to Harundale Mall in Glen Burnie.The Pioneer City resident became the first customer yesterday for a new bus service designed to make it easier for people living in low-income communities in the western part of the county to travel."

The teen-ager charged with trying to kill her newborn baby by throwing her from a third-floor window was released from jail on her own recognizance yesterday to reside with her sister while she awaits trial.Anne Arundel County District Judge Martha Rasin ordered Michelle Elizabeth Savage, 17, to stay at her sister's Meade Village townhouse rather than return to their mother's apartment around the corner, because the apartment has no telephone.Ms. Savage, charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder and child abuse, is not to leave the residence in the 1800 block of Meade Village Circle except for school and visits to her lawyer and doctors.

MILLERSVILLE HIGH'Srobbed WednesdayA gunman robbed a High's convenience store in Millersville Wednesday night, getting away with an undermined amount of money.Police say the man walked into the store, in the 500 block of Old Mill Road, at about 8:50 p.m. and told a clerk, "This is a robbery, I want your money."Police say the clerk laughed, then the man showed her his gun. The clerk gave him money and the man rode away in a small white car driven by another man. Police are still investigating.