Pairs Of Shoes

With Maryland an uncontested state in this year's presidential election, activists of both parties swarmed to battleground states to campaign for President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry. We asked two, Republican Georgia Woerner and Democrat Cass Smith, to check in daily and share their experiences with reporter Patricia Meisol. Georgia Woerner Four days in West Virginia A 29-year-old science teacher at Roland Park Elementary-Middle School, Georgia Woerner waited in something of a reserve unit to be called up for the Bush campaign's "72-hour program" to get out the vote.

Watercolors exhibit to open at Slayton HouseSlayton House Gallery is presenting "Shiny New Paintings," an exhibit of watercolors and acrylics by Robert Lewis beginning tomorrow through Dec. 1.There will also be an opening reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays to Thursdays; 9 a.m to 5 p.m. Fridays; and 9 a.m to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Information: 730-3987.POLICE LOG* Dorsey's Search: 4900 block of Columbia Road: Someone ransacked an apartment between Tuesday and Wednesday, taking a camera, jewelry, a telephone, two VCRs, more than 25 CDs, stereo equipment, 22 pairs of shoes, clothes and an undisclosed amount of cash.

Baltimore County police seized $1.5 million worth of counterfeit merchandise after a raid at a Dundalk flea market last month, the department announced Wednesday. Charges are pending against 19 people who rent space in the market, not the flea market owners, police said. The vendors have not been identified. Officers raided the North Point Plaza Flea Market on Old North Point Boulevard on Feb. 16, taking more than 4,000 pairs of shoes and 3,500 phone accessories along with pirated movies and music and clothing items.

County police arrested a Glen Burnie woman Saturday and charged her with stealing $714 worth of clothing and shoes from a Glen Burnie department store, county police said.Nanette Fulton, 30, of the 6900 block of Glen Ridge Circle, was charged with felony theft.Mike Simmons, a security guard at Value City, in the 7700 block of Ritchie Highway, saw a woman pick up items from the children's department and put them in a shopping bag about 2: 30 p.m., police said.The woman also put two coats, a purse and three pairs of shoes in the bag and took them to customer service, where she asked for a cash refund, police said.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Northeastern Robbery try/shooting: A 37-year-old man was walking in the 3600 block of Parkside Drive about 9 p.m. Thursday when a gunman demanded his money and property. During the incident, the victim was shot in the right arm, and the gunman fled on foot without money or property. The victim was taken by a city Fire Department ambulance to Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment and was expected to survive.

New York man arrested in theft at sports storeA New York man was arrested Monday night, charged with trying to walk out of a Glen Burnie sports store without paying for about $85 worth of items.Police charged Christopher Steven Clarke, 45, of the first block of Clinton St. in North Tarrytown, N.Y., with theft.Police said a store security officer saw a man remove a shirt worth $19.96 from a display rack and put it in his pants about 7: 30 p.m. The man then took a pair of tennis shoes worth $64.96 and put it under his shirt.

MANILA, Philippines -- Weeping and clutching a rosary, flamboyant former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos returned home to an uncertain welcome today after nearly six years of exile in the United States.Amid tight security and a crush of reporters, the 62-year-old widow of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos was taken into an airport holding room where her one-way entry documents were stamped."It's wonderful to be home," she said as she disembarked from her chartered Boeing 747, back to the country she and her husband fled in disgrace in 1986.

When you see them on television Monday night, the 51 Miss USA contestants will be fashion eye candy, in little red dresses, identical floral-print bikinis and fabulous, floor-sweeping evening gowns. Three outfit changes in one two-hour evening? For these women, that's a piece of carb-free cake. By the time one lucky lady is crowned Miss USA at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, the contestants will have changed clothes about 1,071 times, over 18 jam-packed days. They will have lugged more than 600 suitcases, trunks, boxes and garment bags to town with close to 1,300 pairs of shoes, and hundreds of gallons of shampoo, conditioner, liquid foundation, self-tanners and lip gloss.

A security guard and a store worker at Marshall's in Glen Burnie suffered stab wounds in a scuffle with a suspected shoplifter Saturday night.County police said the fight broke out in the Mountain Road store after security guard David Ferguson confronted the man as he walked into the stock room with six pairs of sports shoes in a shoppingcart. The police said Ferguson recognized the man when he came into the store as a suspect in a previous theft.A fight broke out and another store employee, Allen Patterson Jr.came to help Ferguson.