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NFL Network continues to reveal its list of the top 100 players in the NFL for 2011, which is determined by a player poll. Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco was voted the NFL’s 90th best player and running back Ray Rice came off the board Sunday as the 56th best. It looks like at least three Ravens should crack the top 50. One of those players will most certainly be safety Ed Reed (Ray Lewis, Haloti Ngata and Terrell Suggs are also contenders). NFL.com recently released a sneak preview of Terrell Owens hyping up Reed for the list , and the outspoken wideout said Reed is one of the best safeties in the game and will be a Hall-of-Famer.

Baltimore County police identified the driver killed in a two-vehicle crash in Randallstown Wednesday night. Carrol Owens, 45, of Owings Mills was driving a 2000 Nissan Maxima at about 10:40 p.m., headed south on Scotts Level Road, when he collided with a 2004 Jeep Cherokee, driven by a 24-year-old woman who was heading west on Old Court Road, department spokeswoman Detective Cathy Batton said. Owens was taken to Northwest Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Howard County's cold-weather shelters housed 20 children over the course of the winter — double the number of children who received the housing service in any of its eight years of existence. The program is run at 16 churches from late November to late March, and provides shelter, food, rides and laundry services for up to two dozen homeless people each night. The Grassroots Crisis Intervention center, which administers the eight-year-old service, released last season's data this week.

Owen Martin Phillips, a retired Johns Hopkins University oceanographer and former chair of its Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, died of gastric cancer Oct. 13 at his Chestertown home. He was 79 and lived for many years in Roland Park. Dr. Phillips developed a methodology for predicting and describing the shape of ocean waves, including giant waves, which are 100-foot-high upheavals of the sea surface. Hopkins colleagues said his research became crucial in the design of ships and oil drilling platforms, which need to withstand these outsized swells.

Marguerite M. "Peggy" Owens, a homemaker and volunteer, died Aug. 25 at her home in Naples, Fla., of complications from an infection. She was 87. Marguerite Martin, the daughter of a Chesapeake Bay ferry purser and a homemaker, was born in Royal Oak on the Eastern Shore and moved in 1928 to Roland Park. After graduating in 1941 from Eastern High School, she worked as a secretary in the Office of Strategic Services at Aberdeen Proving Ground during World War II. In 1946, she married John B. Owens, who was one of the founders of the Owens Yacht Co. For years, the couple lived at a home on Hollins Avenue that overlooked Lake Roland.

Former two-term Anne Arundel County Executive Janet S. Owens announced Wednesday that she will not seek a return to the office. Owens, a Democrat who served from 1998 to 2007, had been considering a challenge to County Executive John R. Leopold, a Republican who filed for re-election last week. Joanna Conti, a Democrat and business executive from Annapolis, is also running. Owens, 66, said a number of factors shaped her decision, including polls showing that her road to victory would require negative campaigning.

Philip Kirsch of Wilde Lake intends to run for a fifth one-year term on the Columbia Association Board of Directors in next month's elections, he said Monday, and Owen Brown's veteran board member Pearl Atkinson-Stewart says she expects to run for a new two-year term. Kirsch, who is board chairman this year, had flirted with the idea of running for Wilde Lake Village Board instead to deal with the redevelopment of the ailing village center, but decided not to. "There are good people running for village board, so I didn't think I had to," Kirsch said.

On January 8, 2010, EVANS OWENS, survived by a host of family and friends. The family will receive friends on Thursday, January 14th from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue. The wake will be held on Friday, January 15th, 10 a.m. Howell Funeral Home Chapel, 4602 Liberty Heights Avenue, with funeral service to follow at 10:30 a.m. Interment King Memorial Park Cemetery.

The four groups vying to keep the Senator Theatre up and running presented plans to a crowd of about 200 at the theater last night, with each proposal met by a slew of queries and critiques. While none of the plans garnered the lion's share of approval, the presentation that drew the most raves was that of James "Buzz" Cusack, owner of the five-screen Charles Theatre in the Station North Arts District. Cusack proposed keeping the Senator as a full-fledged one-screen movie theater while adding a restaurant and crepe shop.