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POLICE LOGTown Center: 10300 block of Little Patuxent Parkway: A maroon 1992 Hyundai Sonata was stolen between 7:45 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Thursday. The Maryland license plates are ZZX-453.10400 block of Little Patuxent Parkway: A silver Ford Probe was stolen between 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Thursday. The Texas license plates are BHH-49L.* 10400 block of Little Patuxent Parkway: Someone broke into a 1990 Chevrolet S-10 between 11:30 p.m. June 20 and 5 p.m. June 22, and stole several items including a $60 green and purple golf bag, nine golf clubs valued at $250, four lawn chairs valued at $50, a $35 small grill and two pairs of shoes valued at $170.

A Columbia man died earlier this week, hours after an accident in which police said the car he was driving veered to avoid striking another vehicle on Little Patuxent Parkway and struck a tree.Stanley Sanghyun Park, 26, of the 12000 block of Little Patuxent Parkway died Monday morning of unspecified injuries.Police said the incident occurred about 10: 45 p.m. Sunday. According to several witnesses, three cars -- a light-colored vehicle, a 1996 Buick and a 1992 Toyota -- were heading west in the left lane of Little Patuxent Parkway, west of Governor Warfield Parkway.

COLUMBIA RESIDENT Caroline Evans wonders about roads in "downtown" Columbia, including one intersection that is "not a major problem, [but] still an inconvenient situation." "Each week when I see your column I mean to write to you about a problem where Governor Warfield Parkway joins Little Patuxent Parkway," Evans said. "The two lanes from Governor Warfield Parkway feed into the center and right lanes of Little Patuxent Parkway. In the past they were the two through lanes. The left lane merged into the center lane before Little Patuxent Parkway crossed U.S. 29. "Then, this spring, roadwork was done on Little Patuxent Parkway so that the right lane now feeds into the exit for U.S. 29 south and the two through lanes are the left and the center lane," she said.

A Walbrook man was sentenced to 100 years for fatally shooting a man in 2007 along Gwynns Falls Parkway. Michael Wallace, 24, of the 3100 block of Gwynns Falls Parkway was sentenced Friday to 30 years for second-degree murder in the death of Sterling Carr, 28, on June 12, 2007. Judge Wanda K. Heard also sentenced Wallace to 20 years for using a handgun in the crime and 25 years for each of two cases of first-degree assault. All the terms are consecutive. According to police, Carr was with a group of people on Gwynns Falls Parkway when Wallace walked by them about 10:30 p.m. About a half-hour later, Carr walked with two others to his car, which was parked nearby in the 2400 block of N. Ellamont St. Carr and the others got into the vehicle while Wallace, holding a gun, approached them and opened fire, striking Carr in the left shoulder, police said.

A 17-year-old boy was pulled from a burning van moments after the vehicle skidded off the road and rammed into a traffic light pole at Governor Warfield Parkway and Little Patuxent Parkway early yesterday afternoon.The boy, who was not identified because of his age, was driven by ambulance to the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. He suffered severe head and neck injuries after hitting the steering wheel and windshield of the light blue Ford AeroStar van he was driving.Police said slippery road conditions apparently played a part in the 12:40 p.m. accident, but investigators were not sure if the youth was driving faster than the 35 mph posted limit near the busy Town Center intersection.

The driver of the red compact dutifully slowed down as the traffic light at U.S. 29 at South Entrance Road in Columbia changed from green to yellow Wednesday afternoon. Perhaps by habit, he stopped for a signal that had become a flashing yellow warning.About 15 minutes earlier on Wednesday, the light at Owen Brown Road also had begun flashing caution.At about 1:45 p.m. the $23 million U.S. 29 interchange with Broken Land Parkway opened to traffic after two years of construction, a decade of planning and more than two decades on Columbia's drawing board.

A bill approved this week by the Maryland General Assembly could mean that Howard County officials soon will be putting more cameras at busy intersections and mailing tickets to those caught on film running red lights.Beginning in October, the owners of cars photographed going through red lights may be fined as much as $100. The bill is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Parris N. Glendening.Howard County is the first jurisdiction in the state to test the high-tech cameras on its roads and motorists -- though it has been sending out only warning notices, not tickets.