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Dulaney High student hit by car has died A Baltimore County high school student who was hit by a car late last week has died, officials said yesterday. Conrad A. Utanes, 17, of Timonium was struck shortly after school let out Friday afternoon, police said. The Dulaney High School senior was crossing Girdwood Road when he was hit by a 2001 Ford Focus driven by another Dulaney student, Sarah J. Sernaker, 16, of Cockeysville, Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey said yesterday. Grief counselors were at Dulaney yesterday, Principal Patrick S. McCusker said, along with the guidance counselors.

Man found wounded on a Brooklyn street dies Baltimore police were investigating the killing of a man on a street in the Brooklyn neighborhood early yesterday. Police found the man shortly after 3 a.m. lying in the 1000 block of Jack St. and suffering from a wound to his head. He died less than an hour later at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said. An autopsy by the state medical examiner's office found that the man died from cuts or stab wounds and ruled the death a homicide. The man's identity was not immediately available, and police did not release details about a possible suspect or motive in the killing.

THE PROBLEM : The Spanish translation of "no trespassing" signs at the Maryland MVA offices in Baltimore and Glen Burnie are so riddled with errors that even non-Spanish speakers can detect mistakes. THE BACK STORY : Trips to the Motor Vehicle Administration can be confusing enough, even for drivers and would-be drivers who read English fluently. But Watchdog reader Robert H. Rivkin pointed out that those who read Spanish might have a hard time with poorly translated signs at MVA offices in Glen Burnie and at Baltimore's Mondawmin Mall.

An autopsy is to be performed today on the body of a man found last night in a wooded area near Woodlawn Cemetery in Baltimore County, police said. Shortly after 6 p.m., a passer-by was walking in the first block of Thornhurst Court in the Hilltop Estates community when he saw the body in woods a short distance from the cemetery and called police. A police spokesman said homicide detectives were called to the scene. After a preliminary investigation, the body was taken to the state medical examiner's office in Baltimore, where an autopsy is expected to determine the cause of death and possibly the man's identity through fingerprints.

Baltimore County : Towson Apparent suicide by inmate investigated Baltimore County police and corrections officials are investigating the apparent suicide yesterday of a 45-year-old male inmate at the county Detention Center in Towson. The inmate's name was withheld pending notification of family members, police said. The reason for his arrest and how long he had been in custody were not released. Shortly before 5 p.m., security officers notified medical staff after finding the inmate unconscious in a pool of blood on the floor of his cell in the isolation section of the center in the 700 block of Bosley Ave., police said.

Incoming Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said he is developing plans to move a division of the 420-attorney office out of its Baltimore headquarters and to the populous Washington suburbs. "The almost 1.8 million people who live in Prince George's and Montgomery County alone have no access to the attorney general," Gansler said. The Montgomery County state's attorney will be sworn in Tuesday to succeed J. Joseph Curran Jr., who did not seek re-election this year. Gansler said he and his transition team have identified the 17-person criminal appeals division as the most likely candidate for a move, which he said he hopes to complete within the next year.

The new chief of the FBI's Baltimore office is a 23-year veteran who worked on cases including the infamous shoe-bomber incident and organized crime and is coming from the agency's Albany, N.Y., office, officials confirmed yesterday. William D. Chase, 49, will oversee a FBI office of some 180 agents in Woodlawn, and about 200 administrative personnel in Maryland and Delaware. In an interview yesterday, Chase, who will be special agent in charge, described the move as a natural progression from one of the FBI's smaller offices to one of its largest.

Woodmoor Body of woman found near house The body of an unidentified woman with apparent head injuries was found yesterday morning in the backyard of a home in the Woodmoor area, and Baltimore County homicide detectives are investigating the death. The woman was not a resident of the house in the 6800 block of Fox Meadow Road, near Woodlawn Cemetery, where her fully clothed body was found by neighborhood children about 9:30 a.m., said Sgt. Vickie Warehime, a police spokeswoman. The body was taken to the state medical examiner's office in Baltimore, Warehime said.

Michael D. Colglazier, a respected attorney who represented the Ravens and many of Baltimore's financial institutions in his three decades of practice, died of cancer Friday at his Lutherville home. He was 57. Born in Richmond, Va., and raised in Bel Air, he was a 1966 graduate of Bel Air High School. He earned a degree in political science at Amherst College, where he played on the football and rugby teams. He later served there as an assistant dean of admissions. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia.