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Storage USA Inc. ... ... ... Ticker ... ... Yesterday'sColumbia ... ... ... ... .. .. .. Symbol ... ... Cls. ... Chg.... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. .. SUS ... ... .. 24 3/4 .. .. -Period ended9/30 ... ... ... ... ... 3rd qtr. ... ... Year ago* ... Chg.Revenue ... ... .. .. .. $7,681 .. ... .. NA ... ... .. NANet Income ... ... .. .. $3,084 .. ... .. NA ... ... .. NAPrimary EPS ... .. .. .. $0.42 ... ... .. NA ... ... .. NA... ... ... ... ... ... 6 mos.** ... ... Year ago* ... Chg.Revenue ... ... ... ... $14,727 .. .. .. NA ... ... .. NANet Income ... .. .. .. $6,315 ... .. .. NA ... ... .. NAPrimary EPS ... ... ... $0.86 ... ... .. NA ... ... .. NA* Company became publicly traded in March 1994.

Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. Maryland's coaching staff continues to make McDonough (Md.) offensive lineman Na'Ty Rodgers a top priority in the 2013 recruiting cycle. “They've been here several times. They were at our game a few weeks ago. I'm in contact with their staff,” said McDonough coach Luke Ehtington. “Their staff has been very consistent since Day One, that he's a major priority for them.

College basketball Michigan at Duke 2 p.m. [chs. 13, 9] You can go bleary-eyed watching college hoops today, and to get an early start, begin with the Wolverines playing the Blue Devils. It's really more an opportunity to get caught up with No. 6 Duke, because Michigan is pretty bad. The Blue Devils are 8-0 and shooting like they have radar. Michigan lost to Harvard. It's really humiliating when the Ivy League kids are going "na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey-hey-hey, goodbye!" - in Latin.

Multiple choice question: The most memorable part of Kevin Na's year has been (a) his first PGA Tour victory, (b) the 16 he took on a hole at the Texas Open, or (c) the televised whiff that really wasn't a whiff. Talk about a mixed bag. Last week's triumph in Las Vegas might have been enough to offset the 16 in Texas — but it carries the added discovery that he sometimes whiffs on purpose. "Probably one or two a round," said Na, whose move fell under scrutiny when he did it on the 15th tee Saturday.

PharmaKinetics Laboratories Inc.Ticker.. .. .. ... .. .. ..Yesterday'sSymbol.. .. ... .. .. .. ..Cls.. .. .. .Chg.PKLBQ.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 3/16.. .. .. --Period ended Dec. 31 .. ....2nd qtr.. .. .. .. .. Year ago .. ... Chg.Revenue.. .. .. .. .. .. . $2,290.. .. .. .. .. . $3,310.. .. .. -30.8%Net Income .. .. .. .. .. .$74.. .. .. .. .. .. . $(647).. .. .. ... NAPrimary EPS .. .. .. .. .. $.01 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..$(.06).. .. .... NA.. .. .. .. .. .. ... ... 6 mos.. .. .. .. .. .. Year ago..

Washington Savings Bank, of Waldorf, reported earnings for the fourth fiscal quarter that ended Sept. 30 that were more than double the level in the fourth quarter of 1991.The company's previous quarters were reduced after its accountants found a stock repurchase program required additional tax provisions for each of the first three quarters of this year.Three months ended 9/30/92.. .. .. Income .. .. .. .. .. Share'92 .. .. 339,000.. .. .. .. ..0.12'91 .. .. 159,000.. .. .. .. ..0.06% change .. +113.

The conventional wisdom is that you can put any show, no matter how bad, between "Seinfeld" and "ER" and still have a hit.But "Veronica's Closet," a new sitcom starring Kirstie Alley, might just be a wisdom-buster.It is not an awful sitcom. After all, it comes from the same team of Kevin Bright, David Crane and Marta Kauffman that created "Friends" (which is the reason it got the cushy time slot in the first place).The problem is Alley. You either love her or hate her with a love or hate that no television personality since the late Howard Cosell has probably known.

The following are recent bankruptcy filings in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.APRIL 26Stewart Custom Homes Inc., c/o Michael D. Stewart, 2765 Hoopers Island Road, Fishing Creek. Home building and development company filed for Chapter 11. Assets: $1,270,000. Liabilities: $1,166,655.Bay Printing Ltd., P.O. Box 68, Fork. Painting subcontractor filed for Chapter 7. Principal: Robert Murphy. Assets: $69,825. Liabilities: $152,061.John Ward Tower (Tower International and Tower & Co. Public Communications International)

This table shows composite index scores for Anne Arundel County middle schools over the past six years under the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program. The composite is roughly equivalent to the overall percentage of students who scored at a satisfactory level or better on the MSPAP tests. The last column shows the percentage-point change since the tests were first administered in 1993. The test results were released this week by the State Department of Education.................

First Maryland Bancorp, parent of the First National Bank of Maryland, reported slightly higher fourth-quarter profits yesterday and much stronger earnings for all of 1992.The company, which also owns the York Bank & Trust Co., earned $24.1 million in the three months that ended Dec. 31. The results were basically flat compared with the third quarter and only 0.8 percent more than the $23.9 million profit in '91.The performance for the year was more impressive. The 1992 earnings of $92.5 million, a company record, were 23 percent higher than in 1991, when First Maryland earned $75.1 million.

College basketball Michigan at Duke 2 p.m. [chs. 13, 9] You can go bleary-eyed watching college hoops today, and to get an early start, begin with the Wolverines playing the Blue Devils. It's really more an opportunity to get caught up with No. 6 Duke, because Michigan is pretty bad. The Blue Devils are 8-0 and shooting like they have radar. Michigan lost to Harvard. It's really humiliating when the Ivy League kids are going "na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey-hey-hey, goodbye!" - in Latin.

On October 18, 2005, DORIS NASH AUSTIN beloved sister of Ruth Waller and Mary E. Austin. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Sunday after 10 A.M. Family will receive friends on Monday at Berean Temple Seventh Day Adventist Church, 1901 Madison Avenue at 11 A. M followed by funeral services at 11:30 A.M. See www.marchfh.com2005, NAOMIE SPARKS (nee Lee), formerly a resident of Edgemere, MD, beloved wife of the late Louis H. Sparks, Sr.; loving mother of Louis H. Sparks, Jr., Mary Lee Makinen, the late Ronald Wayne Sparks, and the late Dennis Lee Sparks, Sr.; cherished grandmother of eleven grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.

You might wonder whether Baltimore really needs one more Irish pub, and you would be right to wonder. Their number is probably eclipsed only by the number of steakhouses that have appeared in the last few years. I date the area's high profile Irish pub explosion from the success of An Poitin Stil in Timonium, which opened in 1999. The new Tir Na Nog, located where the second floor of Planet Hollywood used to be, manages to differentiate itself from the rest of the pack by, well, not being terribly Irish.

Finbarr O'Neill insists he didn't abandon a foundering ship only 16 months after taking over as president and CEO of Mitsubishi Motors North America, the U.S. distributor of the Japanese vehicle line. Yet on Tuesday, the day that Mitsubishi reported a 37 percent decline in new-vehicle sales for 2004, O'Neill resigned to become president and CEO of Reynolds & Reynolds of Dayton, Ohio, which provides data processing, computer, Web site, sales and management training services for the nation's auto dealers.

Before you get over it, you have to get it over with. The breakup, that is. With today's exit strategies, it's all over a bit too quickly for some people's tastes - a little less like Casablanca and more like "How to lose a guy (or girl) in 10 seconds." Thank e-mail and its kiss-off cousins - voice mail, even text messaging (because it's often cheaper than a cell-phone call) - for the instant-dumping epidemic. These innovations might make it possible to be in touch constantly, but they make it just as easy to vanish facelessly and sometimes voicelessly.

After kayaking 17 miles down Kauai's stunning Na Pali coast, every one of Cindy Chase's muscles hurt -- in her face. She and her paddling partner, Jamie Klein, had spent the entire day grinning. "We couldn't wipe the smiles off," she said. Cindy and Jamie are seasoned whitewater boaters. A death-defying plunge down experts-only rivers, like the upper Youghiogheny in Western Maryland, is routine to the Morgantown, W.Va., couple. But sea-kayaking the waters off Hawaii's oldest, wettest and most beautiful island was an entirely new thrill for them.

This table shows composite index scores for Harford County elementary schools over the past six years under the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program. The composite is roughly equivalent to the overall percentage of students who scored at a satisfactory level or better on the MSPAP tests. The last column shows the percentage-point improvement since the tests were first administered in 1993... .. .. .. .. .. .. 1998 .. 1997 .. 1996 .. 1995 .. 1994 .. 1993 .. Chg.Maryland .. .. .. .. 44.1 .. 41.8 .. 40.7 .. 39.6 .. 35.3 .. 31.7 .. 12.4Countywide .. .. ... 58.3 .. 53.5 .. 52.2 .. 50.9 .. 42.2 .. 38.4 .. 19.9Abingdon .. .. .. .. 70.6 .. 67.9 .. 50.3 .. . NA .. . NA .. . NA .. . NABakerfield .. .. ... 54.3 .. 53.1 .. 48.7 .. 49.6 .. 29.3 .. 25.3 .. 29.0Bel Air .. .. .. ... 63.5 .. 52.7 .. 63.5 .. 50.5 .. 47.9 .. 49.8 .. 13.7Church Creek .. .. . 47.6 .. 51.4 .. 40.4 .. 34.4 .. . NA .. . NA .. . NAChurchville .. .. .. 66.6 .. 55.5 .. 64.2 .. 47.4 .. 45.1 .. 31.5 .. 35.1Darlington .. .. ... 52.0 .. 51.7 .. 57.3 .. 22.0 .. 42.9 .. 33.6 .. 18.4Deerfield .. .. .. . 36.5 .. 39.7 .. 30.9 .. 31.8 .. 25.2 .. 23.9 .. 12.6Dublin .. .. .. .. . 65.4 .. 48.7 .. 56.0 .. 52.4 .. 38.2 .. 32.3 .. 33.1Edgewood .. .. .. .. 37.2 .. 40.7 .. 42.4 .. 42.4 .. 28.6 .. 20.5 .. 16.7Emmorton .. .. .. .. 67.9 .. 64.3 .. 62.3 .. . NA .. . NA .. . NA .. . NAForest Hill .. .. .. 62.5 .. 65.8 .. 58.4 .. 59.0 .. 43.2 .. 41.8 .. 20.7Fountain Green .. .. 65.2 .. 63.1 .. 60.7 .. 58.9 .. 58.2 .. . NA .. ....

Atlanfed Bancorp Inc.@6.. .. .. .. ... ..Ticker.. .. .. .. .. .. Yesterday's.. .. .. ... .. .Symbol.. .. .. ... . .. Cls.. ..Chg... .. .. .. .. .. AFED .. .. ... ... ... ..14 1/2 .. . . + 1/2Period endedDec. 31 .. .. .. 3rd qtr.. .. .. .. .. .. Year ago*...Chg.Net Income .. .. $503.8 .. .. .. .. .. .. $497.9 ....+1.2%Primary EPS .. .. $0.45 .. .. .. ... .. ..$0.46.....-2.2%Annualized returnon assets .. .. . 0.83% .. .. .. .. . . . 0.77%Add. to allowancefor loan losses ...$69.. ... .. .. .. .. $105.

Don Ferguson likes this kind of weather. Cold, wet, sloppy. You know, miserable. He likes this kind of weather because it's good for business. Ferguson is a sales manager for Cargill Salt. Salt as in rock salt. As in de-icing salt. As in please-for-the-love-of-God-make-this-street-passable-again salt. Cargill, based in Minneapolis, is one of two suppliers of salt to the city of Baltimore. Ferguson was one of several helpful sources for the following primer on rock salt, stuff no normal person ever thinks about until you find yourself fishtailing your way down (or across)

The student: NaShanta Ellerbe, 17 School: Wilde Lake High School Special achievement: Member of winning team at the Society of Black Engineers Conference Quiz Bowl at the University of Maryland. What she says about it: "Winning was unexpected because other schools at the conference received materials to help them prepare, and we just came in, did the best we could. I knew we had a talented team, and while it was unexpected when we won, we felt good because we knew we deserved it." What motivates her: "My mother is the main support in my life.