Panama City

This is where the boys are. And girls, too. Once again, mtvU, the media network for college kids and a subsidiary of MTV, the music network, is celebrating spring break in this Florida Panhandle city. The action starts today and is expected to draw thousands of students who will be flocking to the beach for fun, games, music and swag. While nonspring-breakers may want to postpone their visit until after the party is over, there is lots to do for students and nonstudents alike. 1 : Take a dive : Thanks to an abundance of natural, historical and artificial reefs, Panama City Beach is known as the "Wreck Capital of the South."

Shaped like a teardrop and carved out of the eastern bank of the Bush River, the UNDEX Test Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground has earned the nickname "Super Pond" for its unusual properties. Viewed from above, the man-made pond looks much darker than the nearby waters of the Chesapeake Bay. That's because it drops 150 feet to a flat bottom, where, out of view of the public, the military tests missiles, torpedoes, sonar and the effects of explosions on submarines and boats - all within walls that can withstand the equivalent of 4,100 pounds of TNT. It's also where Navy divers practice salvage missions.

On Sunday, January 22, 2006, HANNAH JEAN BOLTZ; beloved wife of the late Max B. Crute; devoted mother of Anthony J. Crute and his wife Sandra of Baltimore and Daniel A. Crute and his wife Patti of Panama City Beach, FL; loving grandmother of Joshua and Jeremy; dear sister of Ruth M. Bruening of Frankfurt, Germany and Thomas Metzger of Stanford, CA. Memorial service will be held at St. Andrew's Christian Community (First Christian Church) 5802 Roland Avenue at Bellmore Road) on Saturday, Feburary 11 at 2:30 P.M. No flowers, please.

THURSDAY FOOTBALL National Homeschool Tournament (at Panama City, Fla.) Maryland Chr. 38, Lighthouse Chr. (Missouri) 6 BOYS SOCCER STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS (at UMBC) CLASS 4A Magruder 2, Urbana 0 GIRLS SOCCER STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS (at UMBC) CLASS 3A No. 4 Reservoir 1Huntingtown 0 Goal: R--Axenfeld. Saves: R--Fowler 4; H--Taylor 7. Half: R, 1-0. GIRLS VOLLEYBALL STATE SEMIFINALS (at College Park)

On May 13, 2003, LILLIE V.; beloved wife of the late Cleveland M. Sheffield. She is survived by three sons, Willie C., Luches C., and Martest B. Sheffield; seven grandchildren, great-grandchildren one aunt, nieces, nephews, cousins two daughters-in-law, six sisters-in-law, one brother-in-law and other relatives and friends. Friends may call at Nutter Funeral Homes, Inc., 2501 Gwynns Falls Parkway on Monday, 2 to 7 P.M. Family will receive friends at the Chapel, 6:30 to 7 P.M., with Dismissal Service immediately following.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- The prostitutes stalking the streets that ring the volcanic hills and craters of this gritty capital are young -- very young. Some have barely reached their teens. Some say they are selling sex to feed their starving siblings. Some say they were sent to this job by their unemployed, single mothers."I try to help them," says the Rev. Xabier Gorostiaga, rector of the Jesuit University of Central America. "I tell them I can give them a scholarship to the university. But they say, 'I already have a scholarship to the university.

Nathaniel Wright Jr., 74, of Portsmouth, Va., was identified yesterday as the man struck and killed while waving away traffic from his broken-down van Thursday night on Interstate 95 in Perryville, state police said. Wright was standing next to his van, which was disabled in the slow lane, when a 1997 Jeep Cherokee struck the van and a 1991 Chevrolet Blazer hit the Cherokee and the van, Trooper Glen Peterson said. Police believe that Wright was hit by his van. Nancy and Sean Scanlon, both 22, of Panama City, Fla., in the Jeep Cherokee, and Michael Shaw, 22, of Great Barrington, Mass.

Junior midfielder Stacy Mann (Dulaney) took a stick to the face in the first half but still finished with four goals to lead the fifth-ranked St. Mary's women to a 10-7 win over Randolph-Macon yesterday at Seahawk Stadium in St. Mary's City. The Seahawks extended their season-opening winning streak to six games. Mann scored twice as the hosts built the first-half lead, with Karli Libertini, Erin McGeeney and Carol Schmoeller also adding goals. Randolph-Macon (2-1) scored the first two goals of the second half.

PANAMA CITY, Panama -- For three years, he ruled Haiti with an iron fist. But now, officials say, Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras sits in a rundown hotel room writing his memoirs and worrying if his children will be harassed at school.Since arriving in Panama on Oct. 13, he has remained secluded in the Riande Continental Hotel near the airport. People who have visited General Cedras said he had spent most of the day working on the memoirs on a computer.The general and his wife, Yannick, and their three children are sharing a small two-bedroom suite in a hotel that a diplomat rated as "1 1/2 stars, with musty carpets and tacky furnishings from the 1970s."