Pager

Woman reports theft of pager, mobile phoneA man stole a mobile phone and a pager from the athletic bag of a woman who was watching her boyfriend play softball in Oak Hill Park on Thursday evening, county police said.The man snatched the items about 7 p.m. while the woman's back was turned and then fled into nearby woods, police said.The phone was valued at $100, police said. An estimated value of the pager was not given.Woman, 41, assaulted, robbed near liquor storeAn Arnold woman was treated Thursday night at the Anne Arundel Medical Center after she was punched in the face and robbed of $20 as she tried to use a pay phone outside a liquor store, county police said.

PalmPilot can send, receive pages with this memory cardPageMart has leapt into the hand-held peripherals market with the Synapse Pager Card for the PalmPilot ($169 plus activation and service charges) which gives early-model Pilots pager capabilities and a brain transplant. The card, which replaces your Pilot's original memory card, also provides 2MB of RAM and upgrades the Pilot's operating system to Palm OS 3.0.The relatively large screen of the Pilot - much larger than other pager screens - means you can see entire messages without scrolling or squinting, and individual messages can be up to 300 characters in length.

A passer-by discovered yesterday the body of a 27-year-old Linthicum man who drowned in Rock Creek a week ago, Maryland Natural Resources Police said.The body of James Robert Smith of the 600 block of Fairmount Road, who jumped or fell from a 23-foot powerboat the morning of Oct. 10, was found about 9 a.m., Cpl. Wayne Jones said.The body was about 100 feet offshore, near the 1500 block o Efford Road.The drowning is considering suspicious, and police are investigating, he said.Mr. Smith was on the boat with four people he had met in a bar, police said.

THE WORLD OF paging/voicemail services can be a confusing, so it is important to understand the "ins and outs" to avoid potential difficulties.Paging services (beepers) are important tools used to maintain two-way contact with your customers. These service companies seem to recognize that the Washington/Baltimore business communities are essentially one. If you have a pager in either town it will beep you in either city. Unfortunately, all of them require that only one city be your home base.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore and Baltimore County.Central DistrictShooting: A 21-year-old man was sitting in front of his apartment building in the 2000 block of N. Eutaw Place about 12: 15 a.m. Wednesday when two gunmen emerged from an alley and shot him five times in the legs. He was in stable condition yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center.Southern DistrictTheft from vehicles: A pager, a cellular phone, cigarettes and cash were stolen Tuesday from a 1988 Mazda and a 1993 Mitsubishi parked in the 200 block of Grindall St.Western DistrictBurglary: A stained-glass window valued at $400 was stolen from a vacant house in the 2300 block of Harlem Ave. between Sunday and Wednesday.

A man and a woman from Texas were arrested on narcotics charges Saturday at a Linthicum hotel, police said.Officer Samuel J. Sweet was on patrol near the Susse Chalet Hotel in the 1700 block of West Nursery Road about 5 p.m. Saturday when he stopped to talk to a cabdriver. Officer Sweet said the female passenger seemed nervous. Afterward, the officer asked the hotel clerk about her, police said, and was told she was going to Baltimore-Washington International Airport to pick up baggage that had come on a different flight.

A firm named after Maryland Congressman Tom McMillen and largely owned by him quietly changed its name last month just before filing for bankruptcy.The company, which leases and sells paging devices, had been called McMillen Communications Corp. since it was founded by Mr. McMillen in 1981. It changed its name to Pager Communication Corp. on Sept. 18. The same day, Pager Communication filed for bankruptcy in a federal court in Virginia.Several disgruntled investors have charged that the unannounced and last-minute name change was designed to shield Mr. McMillen, who is running for re-election, from the potential political embarrassment of being closely associated with a failing business.

The former manager of a financially troubled Columbia telecommunications company is suing the firm for $10 million, claiming it maliciously charged him with taking equipment and records.Jeffrey Cunningham of Finksburg filed the suit against American Beeper Associates on Oct. 30 in Howard County Circuit Court.Also named in the suit are four officers of the firm, which does business as Page Plus Corp., and the company's general partner, Pager Communication Corp. of Crofton.American Beeper, which is owned by U.S. Rep. Tom McMillen and 27 others, and Pager Communication filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy papers Sept.

Maryland Congressman Tom McMillen stands to lose close to a million dollars in personal investments if a troubled telecommunications business that grew out of the small paging firm he founded does not survive a bankruptcy reorganization attempt.Officers of American Beeper Associates, also known as Page Plus Regional Messaging Network, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy papers on Sept. 18 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Alexandria, Va.On the same day in a related case, similar bankruptcy papers were filed for Pager Communications Corp.

NACHOSA Harper, a 19-year-old resident of Gaithersburg, is in a state of high dudgeon. Four years ago her family moved from the war zone that drug dealers have made of Baltimore's Park Heights. Now the drug trade has reared its insidious head in Gaithersburg.But it's not the drug dealers who especially gall Ms. Harper. It's the complicity in the drug trade of legitimate business people who knowingly do business with drug dealers. Car dealers and electronic pager companies especially draw her ire."