Odenton

Trio is sought in stabbing, robbery A scissors-wielding woman and two men armed with handguns robbed two people on a Brooklyn Park street Thursday in an attack that left one victim with a stab wound in the back, Anne Arundel County police said. The two people told police they were in the area of Alley 69 and Patrick Henry Drive around 2:30 p.m. when the trio approached them and demanded money. The two men had semi-automatic handguns and the woman had a pair of 8-inch scissors, which she used to stab one of the victims in the lower back, they said.

The Odenton Town Center is poised to be a key element in our county's future growth and economic development. The center's location in the heart of the Fort Meade BRAC expansion area adds to its importance and the need to implement this project as part of a coordinated plan for West County. The county's planning staff and economic development are working with the property owners in the Town Center to ensure that this growth is effectively managed. The infrastructure needs of this mixed-use community will be met through a combination of state and county funds.

TUESDAY Mental Health Agency -- The Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency Board of Directors will meet at 4 p.m. at 2664 Riva Road, Heritage Office Complex, Annapolis, to review and implement a policy for individuals accessing public mental health services. 410-222-7858. Odenton Oversight Committee -- The Odenton Town Center Plan Oversight Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Western District Police Station, 8273 Telegraph Road. The committee is an advocate for Odenton community property owners, developers and businesses in the growth management area.

On September 7, 2007, STEPHEN C. WALTERS, SR.; loving husband of Carol Walters; devoted father of Stephen C. Walters, Jr., and Suzanne Marshall; brother of Frances Leonard, David and Douglas Walters. A Memorial service will be held September 10, 2007, 1:30 P.M. at Donaldson Funeral Home & Crematory, P.A. 1411 Annapolis Rd., Odenton, MD. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Lung Cancer Alliance, 888 16th St., N.W., suite 800, Washington, DC 20006. For more information, please visit www.donaldsonfuneralhome.

The Anne Arundel County Department of Health urged the public yesterday to avoid an Odenton waterway after nearly 600,000 gallons of untreated sewage spilled during a pair of overflows at a pumping station. About 500,000 gallons flowed over the top of a tank Sunday near the Piney Orchard Wastewater Treatment Facility during heavy rainfall, said Doug Conaway, chief of operations for the wastewater group at the Maryland Environmental Service, which operates the facility. Another 90,000 gallons spewed out of a manhole during a power outage yesterday, he said.

The Anne Arundel County Department of Health temporarily closed an Odenton food service establishment because of emergency circumstances discovered during inspections between March 1 and 15.Cho Son Oak, 1538 Annapolis Road in Odenton, was closed March 6 because of a sewage overflow and reopened later that day, health officials said.County health workers inspect restaurants and other food service establishments routinely to monitor the sanitary and physical conditions at each establishment.

The Odenton Town Plan Oversight Committee was formed in January 1996 by the Anne Arundel County executive.The committee is made up of 11 members representing both business and citizen interests, all appointed by the executive.Recent Sun coverage about the county's purchase of land for the future West County Regional Library in Odenton has portrayed the purchase as a paycheck to Jay Winer for his support of then-County Executive John G. Gary in the November 1998 election. In the opinion of members of the Odenton Town Plan Oversight Committee, that portrayal is not true.

Developer Jay Winer should resign from an Odenton planning committee for engineering a county land deal that benefited him, Anne Arundel County Council President Daniel E. Klosterman Jr. said yesterday."

About 7,000 Anne Arundel County residents were without power for more than an hour yesterday afternoon after a transformer failure.The transformer apparently blew because of a faulty part about 4 p.m., said BGE public relations director Darcell H. Guy.The outage affected private residences and businesses around Gambrills and Odenton. Traffic signals also were affected."It was a bit of a traffic mess," Guy said.BGE employees fixed the equipment by about 5: 15 p.m., and power was restored to the area.

Days before leaving office, former Anne Arundel County Executive John G. Gary signed two land deals that netted one of his top campaign contributors $81,000 in real estate commissions.The purchases, involving $1.3 million worth of overgrown acreage in Odenton, were brokered at the same time county officials were in Maryland City buying a third property from another campaign donor. The state's attorney's office is investigating that transaction.The flurry of deals by the Gary administration during his last days in office drained a land acquisition fund, one of the few accounts that he did not need council approval to use. More than $1 million from the fund wound up in the hands of Gary's political backers.

Andrew Edward Bradley Sr., who served in two theaters of war with the Army's 32nd Signal Light Construction Battalion during World War II and later was a Western Union communication technician, died of coronary artery disease Thursday at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. The Odenton resident was 91. Mr. Bradley, the son of Irish immigrants, was born in Dubuque, Iowa, and raised in Blue Anchor, N.J. After graduating from Hammonton High School, he moved to Baltimore in the 1930s and went to work for Western Union.

Anne Arundel County police are seeking a man in connection with several recent burglaries of small businesses in Odenton, Pasadena and Glen Burnie. The break-ins took place over the summer, with the most recent last week, police said. Photos were taken of him at the Odenton Sunoco in the 1400 block of Annapolis Road, Odenton, where a burglary occurred about 1:40 a.m. July 22, police said. A garage door was forced open and there was extensive damage to the business, police said. Police describe the suspect as a white male with a thin build, long hair in a ponytail and a tattoo on his right forearm.

is survived by her husband Harold Melvin Sheppard of 52 years; her four children Harold Bernard Sheppard, Marian E. Sheppard, John P. Sheppard and Michele M. Harrison; daughter-in-law Michelle M. Sheppard; son-in-law Donald J. Harrison; five grandchildren Duane A. Clark, Jr., Michiko A. Clark, Kayla M. Sheppard, Kyle J. Harrison and Bryce M. Harrison; two sisters Reiko Motoya and Yoko Kojima; sister-in-law Udel Scott and host of nieces and nephews....

The woman whose townhouse was firebombed June 3 in retaliation for the homicide of a Crofton teenager said Thursday that the family has been so traumatized by the blaze that even after they moved, they feel uneasy and their younger child wakes up at night terrified of every sound. "They took from us the most important thing, our peace of mind," Slavica Mahmutagic told Anne Arundel County Juvenile Court Master John F. Gunning during a hearing Thursday in which the 16-year-old driver of the car involved - the only one in the vehicle who knew where in Odenton the family lived - was placed on probation for first-degree arson.

Anne Arundel County police are investigating an apparent road rage incident in which an Odenton man is accused of flashing a handgun at a woman who cut him off during rush hour Thursday. About 5:50 p.m., an off-duty officer stopped at what he thought was a traffic accident on Piney Orchard Parkway near Odenton Road in Odenton. But a 24-year-old woman said it was a road rage incident. She told the officer that she might have cut off another driver, who blasted his horn and, when their cars were stopped, pointed a handgun in her direction and asked whether she wanted to be shot.

Police investigate homicide on east side Baltimore police said Friday they know of no suspects or motive in the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old man this week in East Baltimore. Steven Wilson of the 2200 block of Homewood Ave. was shot about 12:20 a.m. Tuesday in the 1600 block of E. Eager St., said Donny Moses, a police spokesman. Wilson collapsed in the 100 block of Branch Water Court after the shooting, police said. He was transported to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:56 a.m. Wednesday.

SEAN COREY MURRAY, 40, Joined our dear savior at 11:33 A.M. on Friday, June 26, 2009, after a courageous 3 year battle against cancer. Visitation will be on Monday, June 29 from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. at the Donaldson Funeral Home and Crematory, P.A., 1411 Annapolis Rd, Odenton, MD. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, July 1, 9 A.M. at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Odenton. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made for his daughters at any Bank of America under the Sean Murray Memorial Fund.

The Army plans to test residential and business wells in Odenton after groundwater samples there showed elevated levels of toxic chemicals in an area adjacent to Fort Meade, officials said Monday. Mary Doyle, a spokeswoman for the Army base, said the military hopes to test all wells within one mile of a pair of monitoring wells, near the Odenton MARC station, where contaminants have been found at up to 10 times levels considered safe to drink. The testing is being done under orders from the Environmental Protection Agency, which said in a letter that the chemicals are "an unacceptable risk to human health" if they are being consumed in drinking water.

Three men have been charged with first-degree murder in a shooting that left two men dead and two wounded in a bar parking lot across from Fort Meade last week, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. Russell Kelscoe Harden, 26, of the 900 block of First St. in Baltimore; Damon Daryl Dodd, 31, of the 100 block of W. Jeffrey St. in Brooklyn; and James Samuel Watkins, 21, of the 5200 block of Brookwood Road in Brooklyn Park were arrested and charged with first-degree murder, police said.

Two men were killed and two were seriously injured in a quadruple shooting in a parking lot behind a bar and strip mall in Odenton shortly after last call early yesterday, according to Anne Arundel County police. Most customers were still in the Traffic Bar & Lounge, a neighborhood tavern and dance club across from Fort Meade, manager Bill Major said, when a security guard heard gunshots outside while trying to clear loiterers. Major said he and other workers shut the bar doors, which open to the parking lot and to Annapolis Road, and wouldn't let anyone leave until police arrived.